This is already done, to some extent, and the data is available on wunderground.com.
At last all the data is there. Someone ingenious can write an app to gather all that data and make some real-time weather maps... if they haven't already.
Just a thought. I would hate to go looking for info:palm/model/P80900US and find 8 million links to people trying to get me to surf over to their porn site.
I think they are excellent machines, but not for science.
Well, like...
One night, I was processing these gene sequences on my Itanium cluster, you know? When all of a sudden it went berserk, the screens started flashing, and, like, the whole result set just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good result set! I had to cram and resequence it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed thesis wasn't nearly as good, and I blame those Itaniums for the funding didn't get, and tenure I lost.
I'm happy to report that my sister and I now share an Apple G5 cluster. It's a lot nicer to work on than my old Itanium farm was, it hasn't let me down once, and my papers have all been really good.
I'm no expert on all this but three things come to mind:
1) Just because the music is being sold online or digitally doesn't mean the artist is making any more money per sale than if you bought a physical CD.
In fact, there was a website somewhere... can't find it now... that highlighted how much money the artist gets for that $0.99 download. Somewhere around 8 cents, which I think is comparable to the percentages they earn from physical sales.
2) Reselling the song/CD has the same effect whether it is an online purchase or a physical purchase: the artist doesn't make any money off of the sale. So, in this regard, reselling digital copies is no different than putting your CDs up for resale.
3) You talk about music delivery possibly morphing into a music-and-player system, if people continually try and erode the rights of the author and publisher. I seriously doubt this would happen. Joe User would by this point throw up his arms and say "WTF!" and call for an overhaul to the music publishing industry. Right now, the average music listener isn't affected. But if the RIAA/whoever starts putting more and more restrictions on what people can and can't do with things they purchase (or "rent" or whatever it turns into), then enough people will call for it to stop.
Digitally delivered music should be easier, cheaper, and more flexible for the end user. The technology exists to give artists a *much* larger portion of the profits than they have under the current system... 80 to 90% of sales, I imagine.
Something needs to be done to get the RIAA to adapt or die. As long as they keep clinging to the old way of doing things, they are writing their own obit.
How are you going to barcode a stamp so that identifies the sender? That would imply that you would have to register yourself on some system, and then buy stamps at the post office or a location that can print the unique barcode for you on the stamps you purchase.
That would mean no more stamps from a vending machine, and probably no more stamps from the convenience store (since the barcode-printing setup would probably be too expensive/cumbersome to install).
Also, if there is indeed some kind of identification database for all users, then you are putting your trust in the person checking ID. What if Joe AlQueda Sleeper works at the USPS, or the convenience store that does have a system? He could use fake IDs to generate stamps, or circumvent the trust in other ways.
Finally, what about international mail destined for the US? I'm Canadian... will I no longer be able to send mail to the States without registering? Or is international mail exempt (another security hole)?
My opinion: if this is voluntary, it will fail because no one will want the hassle (or the cost will go up too much). If it is mandatory, it will fail miserably for the same reasons.
There are already kindergartens and daycares with webcams so that parents can checkup on their kids (and check that the teachers/daycare workers aren't beating their kids, etc.).
I'm not saying this is a Good Thing but, for those parents that do, it isn't that much different. Probably better, in their minds.
I'm waiting on the internet-enabled clock radio. Never needs to have the time changed (thanks to NTP)... alarms are programmable from anywhere... plays your digital music that's stored wherever for wake up, or gathers news reports from around the world... tells/shows you the latest weather conditions for your area.
So the trick would be (if you get one of these letters) to ignore it and wait for them to file suit against you.
The suit is in the public record, so then it's libel (assuming you really are innocent).
If enough people have the cojones to ignore the threats, then DirectTV will have to show it's cards or STFU.
Actually, it still comes back to barratry, I think. Like another poster said, this is no different than someone suing you for drunk driving because they have a record of you buying a car. The one doesn't imply the other. And, even if I were a drunk driver, they can't search me based on the fact that I bought a car.
Okay, the analogy is getting weak, but doesn't this all boil down to just legal intimidation...?
Even better (IMHO) is a system I developed for dynamic pages.
Each page is seeded with a random, unique email address. Also, that address is stored in a database, along with the time it was generated, the page it was displayed on, and info about the viewer (i.e. IP address, UserAgent, etc.).
Then, if that email is ever used, another automatic system reads that data out of the database and can correlate it.
It's interesting to see some things. Like how long after an email is harvested is it being used (as little as 4 hours), and whether the people harvesting are also spamming (usually not). This way, you can fight spam by attacking/blocking the spammers *and* the people doing the harvesting.
Oh, and I claim prior art... in case Bezos is reading this.
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1. Do something legally stupid. 2. Sue your own lawyers. 3. Profit! (Or at least break even.)
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It's the Coke can with a Pringles can attached to it.
This is already done, to some extent, and the data is available on wunderground.com.
... if they haven't already.
At last all the data is there. Someone ingenious can write an app to gather all that data and make some real-time weather maps
Am I the only one who noticed that his website is Supported by XDate Speed Dating, 30Dates Speed Dating, and for free online dating, xdate.com?
Maybe he should take a break from writing and get out to the bar a bit more.
Just a thought. I would hate to go looking for info:palm/model/P80900US and find 8 million links to people trying to get me to surf over to their porn site.
No, that would be "info:palm/hairy"
I, for one, welcome our new US overlords.
Hrmm ... a valid use for RFID chips?
I'm gonna go out and get me a 12-year-old and have them do all my file sharing.
Wait a minute ... a serious /. comment where the poster actually wonders what a Beowulf cluster of these looks like! Call the papers!
Playing music from the portable over FM radio is a great feature that I wish was available in the iPod.
They buy a Belkin TuneCast or a Griffin iTrip.
Speaking of record labels needing to get with it, I noticed this article in the Globe and Mail about Universal Music cutting CD prices.
I think they are excellent machines, but not for science.
...
Well, like
One night, I was processing these gene sequences on my Itanium cluster, you know? When all of a sudden it went berserk, the screens started flashing, and, like, the whole result set just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good result set! I had to cram and resequence it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed thesis wasn't nearly as good, and I blame those Itaniums for the funding didn't get, and tenure I lost.
I'm happy to report that my sister and I now share an Apple G5 cluster. It's a lot nicer to work on than my old Itanium farm was, it hasn't let me down once, and my papers have all been really good.
Thanks, Apple.
Ellen Feiss, PhD
I'm no expert on all this but three things come to mind:
... can't find it now ... that highlighted how much money the artist gets for that $0.99 download. Somewhere around 8 cents, which I think is comparable to the percentages they earn from physical sales.
... 80 to 90% of sales, I imagine.
1) Just because the music is being sold online or digitally doesn't mean the artist is making any more money per sale than if you bought a physical CD.
In fact, there was a website somewhere
2) Reselling the song/CD has the same effect whether it is an online purchase or a physical purchase: the artist doesn't make any money off of the sale. So, in this regard, reselling digital copies is no different than putting your CDs up for resale.
3) You talk about music delivery possibly morphing into a music-and-player system, if people continually try and erode the rights of the author and publisher. I seriously doubt this would happen. Joe User would by this point throw up his arms and say "WTF!" and call for an overhaul to the music publishing industry. Right now, the average music listener isn't affected. But if the RIAA/whoever starts putting more and more restrictions on what people can and can't do with things they purchase (or "rent" or whatever it turns into), then enough people will call for it to stop.
Digitally delivered music should be easier, cheaper, and more flexible for the end user. The technology exists to give artists a *much* larger portion of the profits than they have under the current system
Something needs to be done to get the RIAA to adapt or die. As long as they keep clinging to the old way of doing things, they are writing their own obit.
Exactly! The obvious solution is to start text messaging everybody instead of going to see a movie or buy a CD.
... or forearm.
Oh wait. That's been done.
How are you going to barcode a stamp so that identifies the sender? That would imply that you would have to register yourself on some system, and then buy stamps at the post office or a location that can print the unique barcode for you on the stamps you purchase.
... will I no longer be able to send mail to the States without registering? Or is international mail exempt (another security hole)?
:)
That would mean no more stamps from a vending machine, and probably no more stamps from the convenience store (since the barcode-printing setup would probably be too expensive/cumbersome to install).
Also, if there is indeed some kind of identification database for all users, then you are putting your trust in the person checking ID. What if Joe AlQueda Sleeper works at the USPS, or the convenience store that does have a system? He could use fake IDs to generate stamps, or circumvent the trust in other ways.
Finally, what about international mail destined for the US? I'm Canadian
My opinion: if this is voluntary, it will fail because no one will want the hassle (or the cost will go up too much). If it is mandatory, it will fail miserably for the same reasons.
Time to buy stock in UPS or Fedex.
It's a great deal of well commented and well written code, performed by over 100 developers in a former Soviet Republic ...
Well, we all know that in Soviet Russia, source code owns YOU. So maybe you should ask IT.
There are already kindergartens and daycares with webcams so that parents can checkup on their kids (and check that the teachers/daycare workers aren't beating their kids, etc.).
I'm not saying this is a Good Thing but, for those parents that do, it isn't that much different. Probably better, in their minds.
Sigh.
Also, the case at iDOT is way cooler looking than the machine from TigerDirect.
I think my CD-R drive may be write-only. How else can I explain all the coasters I've burned?
A cheap touch-screen wifi webpad would be great.
... alarms are programmable from anywhere ... plays your digital music that's stored wherever for wake up, or gathers news reports from around the world ... tells/shows you the latest weather conditions for your area.
I'm waiting on the internet-enabled clock radio. Never needs to have the time changed (thanks to NTP)
Anyone seen something like this?
Thinkgeek is reporting that sales of one kind of t-shirt are markedly lower ...
So the trick would be (if you get one of these letters) to ignore it and wait for them to file suit against you.
...?
The suit is in the public record, so then it's libel (assuming you really are innocent).
If enough people have the cojones to ignore the threats, then DirectTV will have to show it's cards or STFU.
Actually, it still comes back to barratry, I think. Like another poster said, this is no different than someone suing you for drunk driving because they have a record of you buying a car. The one doesn't imply the other. And, even if I were a drunk driver, they can't search me based on the fact that I bought a car.
Okay, the analogy is getting weak, but doesn't this all boil down to just legal intimidation
Even better (IMHO) is a system I developed for dynamic pages.
... in case Bezos is reading this.
Each page is seeded with a random, unique email address. Also, that address is stored in a database, along with the time it was generated, the page it was displayed on, and info about the viewer (i.e. IP address, UserAgent, etc.).
Then, if that email is ever used, another automatic system reads that data out of the database and can correlate it.
It's interesting to see some things. Like how long after an email is harvested is it being used (as little as 4 hours), and whether the people harvesting are also spamming (usually not). This way, you can fight spam by attacking/blocking the spammers *and* the people doing the harvesting.
Oh, and I claim prior art
Hmm ... I see a new business model forming:
1. Do something legally stupid.
2. Sue your own lawyers.
3. Profit! (Or at least break even.)