It also largely doesn't apply to the VLK stuff either. Moreover, your "90 days of 'free' support" typically doesn't cover much of things you might need the support for- it's been my experience that you had to dig a credit card out for difficult problems. So, really, they're mostly analogous after all, now aren't they?
They don't believe that one, believe it or not. My GF and her kids actually do, because they took to using Linux in a leap of faith- and haven't regretted it. But everyone else thinks computing is the way the Windows world is, never having seen anything else.
Don't even go there... TPB is part of the problem- RIAA and the associated companies use that as an excuse for more evil crap inflicted upon us. While you're "cutting off their air supply", they're well off enough that they will do lots of damage on the way down and the only way to minimize that is to not give them ANYTHING to use as a rationale for their actions.
Don't. Use. Their. Crap.
If you want music, there's quite a bit of indie (honestly so...) stuff on places like payplay.fm and others like it. Send a robust message- you don't want ANYTHING to do with the RIAA members or those that do business with them. Videos aren't there yet, but in the same vein, all it'll take is the same sort of movement- videography gear has gotten into the same basic space as the audio gear and software and should be following suit as people figure this out.
The problem is that it's hard to pin down the advantages in a manner that people will "get it".
I don't know how many times I've shown (honestly so and in a way the people were just gobsmacked...) those advantages- and people will still use XP or Vista, because they "like" it, never mind that they're always bitching about all the problems they actually HAVE with the stuff and never once twig onto the fact that it really doesn't have to be that way and you don't have the crap going on in the large on Linux. And this doesn't even get into the people with the mindset that something as good as what Linux has become could ever be "free" or that handing copies out to people could be anything but illegal.
Spelling out "advantages" isn't going to get you there right at the moment.
Unfortunately for them, there's few choices for broadband in their area. It's pretty much the Cablecos or not at all for most people in their area. They're not really willing- if they want high-speed access to the 'net, they've little choice and the cableco keeps reducing the service and raising the rates.
Much like TW is doing in the subject of the news item for this discussion.:-D
It does, indeed. They've posted huge profits this way. The main reason why they're whining now is that they have to do some major upgrading which, short term, will eat fairly majorly into profits, which, nobody in the industry has the balls to risk a 1-3 quarter miss in the "guidance" to keep it going at a sustainable rate. So they'll lie and cheat about it for a while until people find other answers, yet again.
The ISP's are simply too greedy to invest in their own future. You're looking at this from a common sense point of view- and based on taking a medium to long-term view of things where one would actually reap more benefits over time.
Unfortunately, we seem to have a raftload of people that, sadly, can't think further than next quarter so that they can keep that share price up. Never mind that this isn't really shareholder value. All they can see is short-term gains, and the stock market demands that it be ever higher or you're repaid with a serious dip in your shareseller's value.
That depends on what class of service you get. If you said "every consumer ISP in the world," I'd concur. Business service, however, has explicitly defined data rates, usages, etc. Some have actual unlimited to the bandwidth of the pipe service, some have metered service with varying levels at which the meter starts running. No caps. No games in the same sense of what they're doing in the consumer space.
I think the biggest complaint people have is the absolute lack of transparency within the bulk of the consumer ISP provider's plans. They keep playing games to strip-mine the most profit out of everyone.
I would rather pay them $30-50/mo for the pipe to the data and then an additional $10-20 for the video over that data pipe if they offer a compelling package. It's better, price-wise, than me spending what I'd spend on the two separately- and most people are the same. If they could economically do it for me for what I need out of FiOS (Peak data, fixed IP's...) I would be taking Verizon up on at least the TV service from them because it's better than Dish, which was already better than the Cable providers were shovelling (Heh... There's a hint there for you cable providers...)- for about the same as the HD service would cost me from Dish, with MORE channels present.
They're being silly about this, as is to be expected. They see the business being cannibalized, but what everyone else sees is a new business where they could, if they were visionary, get what they were getting out of people and then get more out of those that can afford it and hand them all more of what they're now really looking for.
But then, when have any of the media providers of our era been overly clueful?:-D
I wouldn't say that Verizon "gets it", per se, but they're getting it a bit better than the rest. I still don't have TV or VoD- mainly because I've got fixed IP service. I can have VoIP from them, but I can't have the others because the ONT's they're using are incapable of providing the others allegedly with the service I've got from them. Oh, well, no boob-tube for me other than OTA; which is probably better. Means I won't be watching much of the pablum they've been shovelling of late.:-D
What's interesting is the claim "(Limited to 25 entries per day)" on the form submission, but if you ATTEMPT to submit more than once, you get blocked with the site adding the following text to the form: "You have entered to many times today."
It's illegal to PROVIDE for download Copyrighted material without permission from the rights holder. To do so is to be illegally publishing the protected work in question. Downloading is merely acquiring an illegally produced copy. The law has penalties for the people providing, but not using.
I've seen all too many short yellow lights, especially with the cameras in place. If you're in that intersection and it goes yellow, and you see that it's a camera monitored intersection, you'd better either be 1/2 or more the way through the intersection or you'll get the ticket period, even though a human would not have considered it a violation at that point in most cases.
I'm perfectly willing to bet money that there's some truth to his remarks- having been an employee of the Tandy Corporation at one point in the past, hearing other chains doing the same sorts of crap we got pressured into doing is unsurprising.
That's more because the Motel in question wasn't a company ran facility (in fact, many of the discount chains aren't...) the place you stayed at was a franchisee- which means the most they can do is pull his franchise. If you think long and hard about the whole matter and the fact that the chain's not out their money even if you're pissed (though I'm dead sure they'd not been happy about the Discover clawback on them...) and they'd be out quite a bit of money if they pulled the franchise for only that incident...
This would be that sort of thing without any special version thereof.
The big deal here was that it was cutting out another revenue stream (which was more per unit than the books were...) and cutting out the pay to the person doing the book reading. Unfortunately, not all books are converted to audio. Most are not, actually.
Now, if Kindle can do audio books, it's sort of fine- but it's going to be an overpriced media player that one could accomplish this limited result with a smaller, cheaper device. The thing that made the Kindle even more special is that you didn't NEED someone to read out a book into audio format, it was going to open up a larger space up for the blind. That is now up in the air that there will be any such thing.
I don't know... Considering that it's oftentimes CHEAPER to do those "paid projects" than to go buy something from a proprietary vendor (Or even, in many cases, one of the commercial FOSS vendors...), you might find MORE "paid projects" happening.
It's not about "the community" in most cases with these projects, it's oftentimes more about suitability to task, overall cost, or both.
Wrong. They're part of the same business. Divisions don't count. Subsidiaries might be a differing story, but that's not what we're talking about here.
iTunes would be considered a part of the company that has a Nexus in that state so the iTunes sales would be subject to that state's tax laws.
Aaaand...in doing it, they ended up hurting the known revenue source. Boxee wasn't stripping the ads- so they were getting money via their known source. They just couldn't control it as well as they could with the Hulu website.
Now, they'll have less takers.
No, this was more about Hulu potentially endangering the higher revenue bringing TV and Cable advertising deals.
And if you believe that they don't flaunt the order and rarely get hammered with it, I've got some nice-n-dry beachfront property on the middle of the Florida coastline to sell you...;-)
I'm amazed at just what the courts are allowing to go on these days. So damn much stuff flunks a sniff test that it's beyond black humor hilarious- it's abjectly tragic.
Heh... Even the cheap shots work, really. If the prosecution's really going to be that sloppy, go for it. Why take the high road and risk missing something in your legal theory that causes you to lose?
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It also largely doesn't apply to the VLK stuff either. Moreover, your "90 days of 'free' support" typically doesn't cover much of things you might need the support for- it's been my experience that you had to dig a credit card out for difficult problems. So, really, they're mostly analogous after all, now aren't they?
Never forget that your TCO for the machine also includes all the time lost to frustrations, virii, the tools to "prevent" the virii, etc.
MS never tells you about that one.
Actually, there is stuff in Linux people want- it's just that they can't see the forest for the trees.
They don't believe that one, believe it or not. My GF and her kids actually do, because they took to using Linux in a leap of faith- and haven't regretted it. But everyone else thinks computing is the way the Windows world is, never having seen anything else.
Don't even go there... TPB is part of the problem- RIAA and the associated companies use that as an excuse for more evil crap inflicted upon us. While you're "cutting off their air supply", they're well off enough that they will do lots of damage on the way down and the only way to minimize that is to not give them ANYTHING to use as a rationale for their actions.
Don't.
Use.
Their.
Crap.
If you want music, there's quite a bit of indie (honestly so...) stuff on places like payplay.fm and others like it. Send a robust message- you don't want ANYTHING to do with the RIAA members or those that do business with them. Videos aren't there yet, but in the same vein, all it'll take is the same sort of movement- videography gear has gotten into the same basic space as the audio gear and software and should be following suit as people figure this out.
The problem is that it's hard to pin down the advantages in a manner that people will "get it".
I don't know how many times I've shown (honestly so and in a way the people were just gobsmacked...) those advantages- and people will still use XP or Vista, because they "like" it, never mind that they're always bitching about all the problems they actually HAVE with the stuff and never once twig onto the fact that it really doesn't have to be that way and you don't have the crap going on in the large on Linux. And this doesn't even get into the people with the mindset that something as good as what Linux has become could ever be "free" or that handing copies out to people could be anything but illegal.
Spelling out "advantages" isn't going to get you there right at the moment.
Unfortunately for them, there's few choices for broadband in their area. It's pretty much the Cablecos or not at all for most people in their area. They're not really willing- if they want high-speed access to the 'net, they've little choice and the cableco keeps reducing the service and raising the rates.
Much like TW is doing in the subject of the news item for this discussion. :-D
It does, indeed. They've posted huge profits this way. The main reason why they're whining now is that they have to do some major upgrading which, short term, will eat fairly majorly into profits, which, nobody in the industry has the balls to risk a 1-3 quarter miss in the "guidance" to keep it going at a sustainable rate. So they'll lie and cheat about it for a while until people find other answers, yet again.
The ISP's are simply too greedy to invest in their own future. You're looking at this from a common sense point of view- and based on taking a medium to long-term view of things where one would actually reap more benefits over time.
Unfortunately, we seem to have a raftload of people that, sadly, can't think further than next quarter so that they can keep that share price up. Never mind that this isn't really shareholder value. All they can see is short-term gains, and the stock market demands that it be ever higher or you're repaid with a serious dip in your shareseller's value.
That depends on what class of service you get. If you said "every consumer ISP in the world," I'd concur. Business service, however, has explicitly defined data rates, usages, etc. Some have actual unlimited to the bandwidth of the pipe service, some have metered service with varying levels at which the meter starts running. No caps. No games in the same sense of what they're doing in the consumer space.
I think the biggest complaint people have is the absolute lack of transparency within the bulk of the consumer ISP provider's plans. They keep playing games to strip-mine the most profit out of everyone.
I would rather pay them $30-50/mo for the pipe to the data and then an additional $10-20 for the video over that data pipe if they offer a compelling package. It's better, price-wise, than me spending what I'd spend on the two separately- and most people are the same. If they could economically do it for me for what I need out of FiOS (Peak data, fixed IP's...) I would be taking Verizon up on at least the TV service from them because it's better than Dish, which was already better than the Cable providers were shovelling (Heh... There's a hint there for you cable providers...)- for about the same as the HD service would cost me from Dish, with MORE channels present.
They're being silly about this, as is to be expected. They see the business being cannibalized, but what everyone else sees is a new business where they could, if they were visionary, get what they were getting out of people and then get more out of those that can afford it and hand them all more of what they're now really looking for.
But then, when have any of the media providers of our era been overly clueful? :-D
I wouldn't say that Verizon "gets it", per se, but they're getting it a bit better than the rest. I still don't have TV or VoD- mainly because I've got fixed IP service. I can have VoIP from them, but I can't have the others because the ONT's they're using are incapable of providing the others allegedly with the service I've got from them. Oh, well, no boob-tube for me other than OTA; which is probably better. Means I won't be watching much of the pablum they've been shovelling of late. :-D
What's interesting is the claim "(Limited to 25 entries per day)" on the form submission, but if you ATTEMPT to submit more than once, you get blocked with the site adding the following text to the form: "You have entered to many times today."
Not only is it wrong, it's mis-spelled... Heh...
Actually you have that wrong.
It's illegal to PROVIDE for download Copyrighted material without permission from the rights holder. To do so is to be illegally publishing the protected work in question. Downloading is merely acquiring an illegally produced copy. The law has penalties for the people providing, but not using.
In most cases, the timings HAVE been dinked with.
I've seen all too many short yellow lights, especially with the cameras in place. If you're in that intersection and it goes yellow, and you see that it's a camera monitored intersection, you'd better either be 1/2 or more the way through the intersection or you'll get the ticket period, even though a human would not have considered it a violation at that point in most cases.
I'm perfectly willing to bet money that there's some truth to his remarks- having been an employee of the Tandy Corporation at one point in the past, hearing other chains doing the same sorts of crap we got pressured into doing is unsurprising.
That's more because the Motel in question wasn't a company ran facility (in fact, many of the discount chains aren't...) the place you stayed at was a franchisee- which means the most they can do is pull his franchise. If you think long and hard about the whole matter and the fact that the chain's not out their money even if you're pissed (though I'm dead sure they'd not been happy about the Discover clawback on them...) and they'd be out quite a bit of money if they pulled the franchise for only that incident...
This would be that sort of thing without any special version thereof.
The big deal here was that it was cutting out another revenue stream (which was more per unit than the books were...) and cutting out the pay to the person doing the book reading. Unfortunately, not all books are converted to audio. Most are not, actually.
Now, if Kindle can do audio books, it's sort of fine- but it's going to be an overpriced media player that one could accomplish this limited result with a smaller, cheaper device. The thing that made the Kindle even more special is that you didn't NEED someone to read out a book into audio format, it was going to open up a larger space up for the blind. That is now up in the air that there will be any such thing.
I don't know... Considering that it's oftentimes CHEAPER to do those "paid projects" than to go buy something from a proprietary vendor (Or even, in many cases, one of the commercial FOSS vendors...), you might find MORE "paid projects" happening.
It's not about "the community" in most cases with these projects, it's oftentimes more about suitability to task, overall cost, or both.
Wrong. They're part of the same business. Divisions don't count. Subsidiaries might be a differing story, but that's not what we're talking about here.
iTunes would be considered a part of the company that has a Nexus in that state so the iTunes sales would be subject to that state's tax laws.
Aaaand...in doing it, they ended up hurting the known revenue source. Boxee wasn't stripping the ads- so they were getting money via their known source. They just couldn't control it as well as they could with the Hulu website.
Now, they'll have less takers.
No, this was more about Hulu potentially endangering the higher revenue bringing TV and Cable advertising deals.
What if the rack-rate per minute for advertising was quite a bit bigger on TV than on Hulu?
Does it make more sense now?
And if you believe that they don't flaunt the order and rarely get hammered with it, I've got some nice-n-dry beachfront property on the middle of the Florida coastline to sell you... ;-)
I'm amazed at just what the courts are allowing to go on these days. So damn much stuff flunks a sniff test that it's beyond black humor hilarious- it's abjectly tragic.
Heh... Even the cheap shots work, really. If the prosecution's really going to be that sloppy, go for it. Why take the high road and risk missing something in your legal theory that causes you to lose?