How do you create a market for a product, and make money of a product that has a huge initial creative investment, but then no manufacturing cost, and is in infinite supply?
Amortizing the cost of producing and distributing the product, including of course the payment to the artist, over the useful life of the product (read: total cost / estimated sales per year, with the sales per year brought back into present dollars versus future dollars).
How do all companies factor in R&D? How do drug companies who spend billions developing a drug and then pennies making the actual drug come to prices? Same thing.
The other side of the music scene though is that people are stealing it. So your options are:
a. turn those folks into buyers [DRM is an idea for that, but causes trouble for the current buyers]
b. they're not sales unless you make money, so just reduce the number of sales and hence raise prices [read: downward spiral]
c. let the market forces work themselves out [accepting that some people will not buy at any price]
I'd argue that 'stealing' the music is not what the market INTENDS to do, but the end effect. The key is to ask why. un-DRMd music is no worse than folks copying tapes using high-speed dubbing. What the music industry ignores is that (a) music WANTS to be shared. If you hear a song from your buddy's car- you want it for your car... right away, (b) people want a song and not an artist's collection of songs, (c) the price needs to be reasonable. People will do what is convinient. If you can get a song in 2 minutes from the comfort of your home for free or cheap versus pay too much, going to a mall, being restricted on how you use it, and so on, you'll do it. Renting/sharing songs between friends is a good first start and a good sign from the industry.
What's with the standard help questions here today? C'mon guys- this is basics of system tuning.
It all depends on your purpose of course. The amount of memory, what is running, etc.
Windows requires virtual memory and still advises 2-2.5x sized RAM. Right now my 1GB of RAM windows machine has 200MB of physical memory free and 800MB of page in use while doing next to nothing. It depends on the number of programs you have in use, memory requirements of the programs and so on. If you are doing video editing with minimal RAM or using advanced photoshop plugins, up those figures. If you are running notepad exclusively, reduce them.
Linux runs fine with zero, but the question becomes would you rather your system start killing processes or swap things out to disk if it does get a burst of memory requirements. But there's more- it will slow to a crawl if you get that spurt and start using swap.
The formulas don't always work. A database server should ahve more memory and less swap. A workstation vice-versa. What happens if you increase memory on a database server to 16GB- should you make your Swap 40GB? Hell no- by the time you use any of that your system is fried to a halt anyway. On windows it has to be at least 16GB, but that's about all I'd do. On linux, a few GB to give it some room.
Look at your own systems' needs and make a judgement. There is no right answer.
So if the pirates releasing things before they go on shelves being the problem, why don't the releasing companies and distribution channels release things faster rather than sitting on the product for months while we all want them.
"All of NTP's patents have already been rejected by the Patent Office and it's expected to issue a final ruling in the coming weeks, which could impact any decisions by the U.S. District Court."
Plain any simple, any Database directly accessable to the open world with a nice public IP or no filtering is clearly run by idiots. Agreed a slow response is a slow response, but it's like a local exploit on a low-volume internal machine... the response is 'when you get around to it'.
This can just as easily happen with Microsoft, IBM, or any other big name. it is _JUST_ as likely that Apache violates a patent or right versus IIS violating such a right; windows -vs- linux; word -vs- openoffice. Whatever software there is, it can cause problems. This isn't an argument against or for OSS, so it's just flaimbait bringing that into it.
With paid software, they ?should? respond quickly (but keep in mind, they probably don't have to- it's the developers problem to pay for the rights to anything they already sold). With free software, you'll have tons of variations of workarounds and the ability to make one yourself.
Of course this isn't 'leaked' but on purpose. Release it, people find the exploits and badmouth it. Banks and other organizations test compatibility with the software. More importantly, you get the exploits. Of course they fix it, say it's pre-release and was never intended to be released.
Of course we know better, but the general public blames hackers for it being leaked and hackers for making exploits for it. So hackers are bad. Microsoft is just the victim. But they have a free beta test and free security test.
+1 for microsoft +1 for 'hackers' in the media as evil -1 for society.
Back even as much as 15 years ago and of course much earlier back to post-war era, plant tours were common. Every school used to walk into FORD, IBM, and other big corps and get tours, view the assembly lines, and the whole deal. Then of course the leg-up for many foreign business was just that- sending in teens and 'tourists' to spy on the process and replicate it. Of course around this point all of these companies closed their doors and so became the end of that era.
Now lets look at the patent system- in order to make a patent, you need to document everything as to how to make it and how it works. If you ever want to see what the horizon holds, take a look through the US patent system. With slight variations, you can take a look back in 1996-1998 or so when I first saw a cellular phone with a camera in it. Patent existing. It was a big bigger, but had the technology as to how it worked. So I could have told you five years before it came out, that a camera would have been on a cell phone, and with the right resources, could have made it. In businesses where the technology lifespan is short (phones, computers, etc) it's almost better to just keep things under rapps since anyone can copy your product in a few weeks anyway.
What do you think airmiles is? They get a copy of what you buy and build a profile on you, then market to you accordingly. It's selling your privacy that you bought a family-pack of condoms last time you went to the local store... Expect lots of interesting ads next time around.
Today's 'desktop replacement' models might pull 2h on a new battery. Today's mobile systems might pull 3.5h. This is just doing 'word', but you might get half that playing a video game or watching a movie. Double the batteries (at $175), weight, and replacement cost-- and you might get more.
Not to mention a performance hit (lowering clock speed, CD spin speed, etc) when running on battery.
Still impractical. Even when I work outside I leave the laptop plugged in. A plane is useful playing a game or DVD for 2h.
I'd sacrifice speed for power in a mobile unit case, but I'd love both. Nonetheless, wireless is a joke. It's got so many problems (especially in a large office or larger house), inconsistancy, serious latency, and then of course power troubles.
Find if you _NEED_ wireless, but for the few hundred to wire every room in your house with CAT-5e and some wall plates/crimpers, wireless is a joke.
AMD is now selling (for reasonable ~400-600$CDN prices) dual-core 4600-model 64-bit processors (or course usualy stuff with their own memory controller).
AMD went dual core around the same time as Intel (to silence the hype), AMD made 64-bit marketable while Intel was still saying "64-bit has no place on consumer-grade machines".
Why would AMD react? They're already 10 steps ahead!
PS: Why are they wasting time with SSE3. Almost no programs actually use these new instruction sets for at least 5 years until they're adapted as commonplace. You might find a few video editing software packages using them, but put the time/effort/space/power to speeding up the processor rather than adding instructions nobody uses.
The browser interface is not the best interface for most activities. Take data entry and how bad even the best (javascript, forms, etc) interface can be just horrible compared to a full-fledged application. Browser is a great interface for many things, but lets not forget how useful a good application can be.
Your ethernet connection so can not be your bottleneck.
10Mbit ethernet = 1.25MB/s (1MB/s at the assumed 80% efficiency of ethernet)
100Mbit ethernet = 12.5MB/s (10MB/s at the assumed 80% efficiency of ethernet)
and now theres gigabit ethernet! Your bottlenecks are elsewhere.
I don't know about your server buddy, but mine don't crash. I've never had MySQL die on me, even when doing millions of hits at a time. Never had PHP crash on me or the http daemon (except for this one time, but that code hack really didn't work)
Two things:
1. Some basic error catching in your code calling on the MySQL database should properly ensure an environment that will not fail, and then properly deal with it if it happens to. If you can't write code properly, we're in a different issue.
2. MySQL stores databases in directories... Yes. But if you don't trust your directory structure, then your database is as good as gone anyway. Proper file system permissions should *hopefully* prevent this sort of thing. If you don't trust your operating permissions, get a new OS.
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Amortizing the cost of producing and distributing the product, including of course the payment to the artist, over the useful life of the product (read: total cost / estimated sales per year, with the sales per year brought back into present dollars versus future dollars).
How do all companies factor in R&D? How do drug companies who spend billions developing a drug and then pennies making the actual drug come to prices? Same thing.
The other side of the music scene though is that people are stealing it. So your options are:
a. turn those folks into buyers [DRM is an idea for that, but causes trouble for the current buyers]
b. they're not sales unless you make money, so just reduce the number of sales and hence raise prices [read: downward spiral]
c. let the market forces work themselves out [accepting that some people will not buy at any price]
I'd argue that 'stealing' the music is not what the market INTENDS to do, but the end effect. The key is to ask why. un-DRMd music is no worse than folks copying tapes using high-speed dubbing. What the music industry ignores is that (a) music WANTS to be shared. If you hear a song from your buddy's car- you want it for your car... right away, (b) people want a song and not an artist's collection of songs, (c) the price needs to be reasonable. People will do what is convinient. If you can get a song in 2 minutes from the comfort of your home for free or cheap versus pay too much, going to a mall, being restricted on how you use it, and so on, you'll do it. Renting/sharing songs between friends is a good first start and a good sign from the industry.
-M
What's with the standard help questions here today? C'mon guys- this is basics of system tuning.
It all depends on your purpose of course. The amount of memory, what is running, etc.
Windows requires virtual memory and still advises 2-2.5x sized RAM. Right now my 1GB of RAM windows machine has 200MB of physical memory free and 800MB of page in use while doing next to nothing. It depends on the number of programs you have in use, memory requirements of the programs and so on. If you are doing video editing with minimal RAM or using advanced photoshop plugins, up those figures. If you are running notepad exclusively, reduce them.
Linux runs fine with zero, but the question becomes would you rather your system start killing processes or swap things out to disk if it does get a burst of memory requirements. But there's more- it will slow to a crawl if you get that spurt and start using swap.
The formulas don't always work. A database server should ahve more memory and less swap. A workstation vice-versa. What happens if you increase memory on a database server to 16GB- should you make your Swap 40GB? Hell no- by the time you use any of that your system is fried to a halt anyway. On windows it has to be at least 16GB, but that's about all I'd do. On linux, a few GB to give it some room.
Look at your own systems' needs and make a judgement. There is no right answer.
-M
So if the pirates releasing things before they go on shelves being the problem, why don't the releasing companies and distribution channels release things faster rather than sitting on the product for months while we all want them.
-M
"All of NTP's patents have already been rejected by the Patent Office and it's expected to issue a final ruling in the coming weeks, which could impact any decisions by the U.S. District Court."
Does nobody actually pay attention to these?
Plain any simple, any Database directly accessable to the open world with a nice public IP or no filtering is clearly run by idiots. Agreed a slow response is a slow response, but it's like a local exploit on a low-volume internal machine... the response is 'when you get around to it'.
-M
So why OSS?
This can just as easily happen with Microsoft, IBM, or any other big name. it is _JUST_ as likely that Apache violates a patent or right versus IIS violating such a right; windows -vs- linux; word -vs- openoffice. Whatever software there is, it can cause problems. This isn't an argument against or for OSS, so it's just flaimbait bringing that into it.
With paid software, they ?should? respond quickly (but keep in mind, they probably don't have to- it's the developers problem to pay for the rights to anything they already sold). With free software, you'll have tons of variations of workarounds and the ability to make one yourself.
-M
Of course this isn't 'leaked' but on purpose. Release it, people find the exploits and badmouth it. Banks and other organizations test compatibility with the software. More importantly, you get the exploits. Of course they fix it, say it's pre-release and was never intended to be released.
Of course we know better, but the general public blames hackers for it being leaked and hackers for making exploits for it. So hackers are bad. Microsoft is just the victim. But they have a free beta test and free security test.
+1 for microsoft
+1 for 'hackers' in the media as evil
-1 for society.
Back even as much as 15 years ago and of course much earlier back to post-war era, plant tours were common. Every school used to walk into FORD, IBM, and other big corps and get tours, view the assembly lines, and the whole deal. Then of course the leg-up for many foreign business was just that- sending in teens and 'tourists' to spy on the process and replicate it. Of course around this point all of these companies closed their doors and so became the end of that era.
Now lets look at the patent system- in order to make a patent, you need to document everything as to how to make it and how it works. If you ever want to see what the horizon holds, take a look through the US patent system. With slight variations, you can take a look back in 1996-1998 or so when I first saw a cellular phone with a camera in it. Patent existing. It was a big bigger, but had the technology as to how it worked. So I could have told you five years before it came out, that a camera would have been on a cell phone, and with the right resources, could have made it. In businesses where the technology lifespan is short (phones, computers, etc) it's almost better to just keep things under rapps since anyone can copy your product in a few weeks anyway.
-M
What do you think airmiles is? They get a copy of what you buy and build a profile on you, then market to you accordingly. It's selling your privacy that you bought a family-pack of condoms last time you went to the local store... Expect lots of interesting ads next time around.
Couldn't agree more!
Today's 'desktop replacement' models might pull 2h on a new battery. Today's mobile systems might pull 3.5h. This is just doing 'word', but you might get half that playing a video game or watching a movie. Double the batteries (at $175), weight, and replacement cost-- and you might get more.
Not to mention a performance hit (lowering clock speed, CD spin speed, etc) when running on battery.
Still impractical. Even when I work outside I leave the laptop plugged in. A plane is useful playing a game or DVD for 2h.
I'd sacrifice speed for power in a mobile unit case, but I'd love both. Nonetheless, wireless is a joke. It's got so many problems (especially in a large office or larger house), inconsistancy, serious latency, and then of course power troubles.
Find if you _NEED_ wireless, but for the few hundred to wire every room in your house with CAT-5e and some wall plates/crimpers, wireless is a joke.
-M
AMD is now selling (for reasonable ~400-600$CDN prices) dual-core 4600-model 64-bit processors (or course usualy stuff with their own memory controller).
AMD went dual core around the same time as Intel (to silence the hype), AMD made 64-bit marketable while Intel was still saying "64-bit has no place on consumer-grade machines".
Why would AMD react? They're already 10 steps ahead!
PS: Why are they wasting time with SSE3. Almost no programs actually use these new instruction sets for at least 5 years until they're adapted as commonplace. You might find a few video editing software packages using them, but put the time/effort/space/power to speeding up the processor rather than adding instructions nobody uses.
-M
The browser interface is not the best interface for most activities. Take data entry and how bad even the best (javascript, forms, etc) interface can be just horrible compared to a full-fledged application. Browser is a great interface for many things, but lets not forget how useful a good application can be.
-M
Your ethernet connection so can not be your bottleneck. 10Mbit ethernet = 1.25MB/s (1MB/s at the assumed 80% efficiency of ethernet) 100Mbit ethernet = 12.5MB/s (10MB/s at the assumed 80% efficiency of ethernet) and now theres gigabit ethernet! Your bottlenecks are elsewhere.
I don't know about your server buddy, but mine don't crash. I've never had MySQL die on me, even when doing millions of hits at a time. Never had PHP crash on me or the http daemon (except for this one time, but that code hack really didn't work)
Two things: 1. Some basic error catching in your code calling on the MySQL database should properly ensure an environment that will not fail, and then properly deal with it if it happens to. If you can't write code properly, we're in a different issue. 2. MySQL stores databases in directories... Yes. But if you don't trust your directory structure, then your database is as good as gone anyway. Proper file system permissions should *hopefully* prevent this sort of thing. If you don't trust your operating permissions, get a new OS.