The RIAA is a wholesaler of legal muscle for intellectual property rightsholders, not a musical-recording retailer.
The listening public is not its customer. The artists, record producers, and catalog owners are its customers. Music is not its product, lawsuits protecting copyright are its products.
It is suing those who procured, copied, and distributed music without legal entitlement, because that is what it ultimately was formed to do.
Toyota was first to market with a low-cost manufacturing process.
Then the '70s ended, and America started applying the same processes, and now Toyota has to work their asses off to get anything out of it. And invent the mid-luxury class, and popularize the SUV among non-sporting folk (Jeep wasn't doing it but the 4-runner killed).
And since when is a Customer Satisfaction survey a bottom line?
The few "successful dot coms that waltzed right past the sandblasted corpses of the companies who hit the market first" were the lucky ones. They also defeated several others who tried the same thing. But, like any poker game, getting lucky on the river does not allow you to believe you knew you were the winner from the beginning.
You don't tell the competition what you're doing.
First-to-market is worth a lot of money, and you don't throw that away by giving your competition a chance to out-maneuver you.
Promise me you'll never try to get a job in management at any company in my portfolio (INTC, CMVT, OPSW, AXP).
I'd hate to see my money disappear because of delusional fate-mongers derailing solid policy.
Ford almost bought the entire nation after his first few years in operation.
Then it spent decades treading water, and now it's a pile of rusting hardware that has to buy other piles of rusting hardware to survive.
If Ford had shared his vision with his potential competitors, he'd never have become a household name and industrial legend.
That's the point.
And Toyota was first to market with the product it sells best: robotically made middle-class transportation, sub-luxury SUVs, and low-end luxury cars. Now it's treading water in those classes because of competition.
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Letting your competitors know anything about your business model gives them opportunity to undercut and end-run.
Your only real profit may come from being first-to-market and unique for a short time; the rest of your company's life will be spent breaking even or dying.
So now free speech extends to waking me at 0-dark-thirty? Calling me along with 5 other people and then hanging up on me when one of the others answers a split-second sooner? Filling up my answering machine with such hangup calls?
No. Your right to swing your phone ends at annoying me in my own home without my express permission.
Tell Rehnquist to raise up his Learned Hand and strike down these judicially unsupportable attacks on the Do-Not-Call list.
You'd think if you have the mad skilz to hack up a 1.2 TB server, you'd be smart enough to get yourself better than a 256 kbps adsl connection to the net...
You would think that law enforcement would LOVE chatrooms, since they're logged and traceable, and the cops can bait the scum without having to dress up.
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Acorn shaped object the size of a car?
Think "space capsule" or "warhead".
Next incident.
Far be it from me to say "get a life," but I have no problem saying "get a clue."
this technology can go to the grocery store, buy a roll of aluminum foil, and wrap their "munitions" in death-beam deflecting reflector material.
Having an electric field and having some external agency vibrating that electric field at tens of megaHertz are two different things.
Like holding a bullet and catching one.
Wasn't that the followup to the BUTTCHEZ Program?
The RIAA is a wholesaler of legal muscle for intellectual property rightsholders, not a musical-recording retailer.
The listening public is not its customer. The artists, record producers, and catalog owners are its customers. Music is not its product, lawsuits protecting copyright are its products.
It is suing those who procured, copied, and distributed music without legal entitlement, because that is what it ultimately was formed to do.
Linus moving up from 21st to 5th tells you more about the fortunes of the people moving down than about him.
What power does he have?
He can't hire or fire anyone.
He can't spend anyone's money.
He even quit his day job to slave over his open-source avocation.
He might break his version of the kernel by adding massive incompatibilities, but then he'd would merely marginalize himself.
Just what actual power does he have?
I've seen it on $80 and $800 DVD players.
They all universally suck.
that doesn't pause when changing layers?
I'd much rather have one of those so I can get the value out of the movie that I'm renting.
a wave pool that goes in a circle, so you can just catch a wave and go around forever?
And Wind River's tools and OS are crap.
So that's saying something.
Toyota was first to market with a low-cost manufacturing process.
Then the '70s ended, and America started applying the same processes, and now Toyota has to work their asses off to get anything out of it. And invent the mid-luxury class, and popularize the SUV among non-sporting folk (Jeep wasn't doing it but the 4-runner killed).
And since when is a Customer Satisfaction survey a bottom line?
You guys crack me up.
Hindsight is 20/20 and a dime a dozen.
The few "successful dot coms that waltzed right past the sandblasted corpses of the companies who hit the market first" were the lucky ones. They also defeated several others who tried the same thing. But, like any poker game, getting lucky on the river does not allow you to believe you knew you were the winner from the beginning.
You don't tell the competition what you're doing.
First-to-market is worth a lot of money, and you don't throw that away by giving your competition a chance to out-maneuver you.
Promise me you'll never try to get a job in management at any company in my portfolio (INTC, CMVT, OPSW, AXP).
I'd hate to see my money disappear because of delusional fate-mongers derailing solid policy.
They chose it because it was unlikely to be in use by any application program written for any Windows platform.
"Backwards compatibility" is the enemy of clean design.
I hate self-promoting post-wannabe wannabes.
Read what I wrote.
Ford almost bought the entire nation after his first few years in operation.
Then it spent decades treading water, and now it's a pile of rusting hardware that has to buy other piles of rusting hardware to survive.
If Ford had shared his vision with his potential competitors, he'd never have become a household name and industrial legend.
That's the point.
And Toyota was first to market with the product it sells best: robotically made middle-class transportation, sub-luxury SUVs, and low-end luxury cars. Now it's treading water in those classes because of competition.
Letting your competitors know anything about your business model gives them opportunity to undercut and end-run.
Your only real profit may come from being first-to-market and unique for a short time; the rest of your company's life will be spent breaking even or dying.
Secrecy is essential.
Telemarketers are not Emergency Services.
I have the right to put up a "NO SOLICITORS" sign on my front gate and any solicitor who violates it is trespassing.
The same principle extends to my telephone.
So invent a paper backlight.
Or sell these with X-ray tables.
So now free speech extends to waking me at 0-dark-thirty? Calling me along with 5 other people and then hanging up on me when one of the others answers a split-second sooner? Filling up my answering machine with such hangup calls?
No. Your right to swing your phone ends at annoying me in my own home without my express permission.
Tell Rehnquist to raise up his Learned Hand and strike down these judicially unsupportable attacks on the Do-Not-Call list.
Look really, really close at your computer screen. The cells don't overlap. They abut. And you see all those intermediate colors just fine.
You'd think if you have the mad skilz to hack up a 1.2 TB server, you'd be smart enough to get yourself better than a 256 kbps adsl connection to the net...
You would think that law enforcement would LOVE chatrooms, since they're logged and traceable, and the cops can bait the scum without having to dress up.
So you mean with every software patent you'll have to submit a piece of hardware, like a PCI-card bracket or something?