But he said de-accelerate which would be a negative value of d3L/dt3, but a positive va....ok I'll go back to sitting in the corner and muttering to myself..
The problem with paying for online music
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Time to Face the Music
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· Score: 2, Interesting
There is one main problem to subscription based models. The record companies complain the loudest about losing money on the pop-scene. As the article suggests, jazz, classical and non-mainstream genres are doing okay and the imply (rightly so?) because they are aimed at a more affluent, older crowd.
So they want kids, to buy the mainstream pop stuff right? However, all the subscription services require, you guessed it, a credit card. How about this for an idea. You sell the equivalent of prepaid phone cards at b&m locations (7-11, grocery stores etc) and that buys you X amount of songs.
If you price that at about 50 cents a song or so, you probably can get kids to buy the cards. This is especially true, if I could get high quality, fast access, etc.
I must add to the conditions, no copy protection.
People will pay! You could even encourage people to buy cds online (or offline) using these cards. You could include the cards in CDs for promotional value.
One last thing, before P2P, I used to buy around 6 cds a year (this was at my cd buying height) so far this year I have purchased 4. I am pretty sure I will be adding one more on July 8th with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's latest effort.
I pretty much have maintained the same purchase rate CDs.
Online downloading is more about convenience than anything else.
Recording off of the radio requires comparitively greater effort than does pirating mp3's. While pirating, you can do a quick search and find what you are looking for on demand, whereas you need to "hunt and trap" what you are trying to find on the radio.
So let me get this straight, the reason why it is not as immoral is because you have to work harder to do it? So I guess by that logic, if you kill someone with a gun that is extremely immoral but if were to slit your victim's wrist and let the blood ooze out slowly, it is somehow less immoral because it took longer?
No doubt the RIAA sees it like this. They only raise objections when it becomes convenient to pirate.
They realize that taking a hardline with people taping a song off the radio will get them no where (ie people feel they are entitled to do that, much like taping a tv show).
I thought it was April 31st until I realized, "Wait a second, April doesn't have 31 days!" Then I remembered that 2003 is a leap year, so I am all good.
We can define everyone. What does an Iraqi look like? Go go go...I bet you came up with someone you just saw on TV, or one of the statue protestors right?
Hmm...not all Iraqis are that person. We use generalizations to wade through data. Every snowflake is different, every Zebra, and every thumbprint. We can analyze why each is different, we just have a preconceived notion and we move on.
Stereotypes are true. Are they 100% true? No of course not.
The Middle East is backwater. Where have you been? Iraq is one of the more moderate (religiously) countries along with having a precious natural resource.
Great things can, and probably will, come to Iraq.
Not only that, (here is where I step out on to a limb) after several years of Iraqi democratic rule it will inspire other Middle Eastern countries to attempt coups(probably with the help of covert US operations). The Israel peace proccess gets a bump from Palestinians who realize they have been led by murderers and thugs. They rise up, implement democracy and a palestinian state is formed.
Soon, dictatorships start falling left and right.
Sure, this might be extremely optimistic, and the more cynical among us will be quick to trash this as some idealistic rant, but truly believe this will happen (maybe not quite the way I layed it out) in 50-60 years.
I believe our grandchildren will think of Iraq the way we ("we" if you are a babyboomlet) think of Japan.
Check out their PE ratio, 287+? To give you an idea, a PE of 15 is considered good. Though high PE is a sign that investors believe that enormous growth lies ahead.
Not bigoted, truthful. Truuuuthful! If someone tells you they are poor and their definition of poor is not being able to get the latest and greatest video card, wouldn't you say "You are poor by an upper middle class standards"
A wealthy man in Ghana, Africa makes 3 dollars a week, but he is wealthy by Ghana standards not German standards for example.
It's not like I said it was somehow impossible to modernize a bunch of towel wrapping sandmonkeys, I simply said, Iraq is modern compared to its neighbors.
It has information like literacy rates, religions, etc. I was surprised by a few things, for example, I thought all Iraqis were Arabs, but it turns out there are a fair amount of Turks, Assyrians etc.
I hope they can become a shining example of democracy in a region that is dominated by dictators.
After all, Italy, Germany and Japan have it pretty well now!
I had an HP722 and it still works fine. I have a Canon that, in the immortal words of Bart Simpson, "both sucks and blows at the same time".
Laser is the way to go. I got a Samsung-1430 which is very similar to yours. In the last year, I recouped the initial 275 dollars (buy.com + a coupon) in the savings of cartridges alone.
Unfortunately, cheap laser color is hard to come by, so I still have my crappy bubblejet.
Slashdot Mirror
Am I the only one dismayed this is a U.S. only feature?
It is also MAC only right now, just give it time! Rome was not built in a day, nor did it fall in one.
--Joey
From http://digilander.libero.it/solciclos/template.pdf
The Three Theorems of Psychohistorical Quantitivity[2]:
1 The population under scrutiny is oblivious to the existence of the
science of Psychohistory.
2 The time periods dealt with are in the region of 3 generations.
3 The population must be in the billions (75 billions) for a statistical probability to have a psychohistorical validity.
Individual relationships fail all three theorems.
--Joey
He probably meant 2.40 pictures per dollar
--Joey
But he said de-accelerate which would be a negative value of d3L/dt3, but a positive va....ok I'll go back to sitting in the corner and muttering to myself..
What a jerk...
--Joey
if it is imaginary, shouldn't it be 6-j9?
I personally only accept currency in Norwegian kroner or Zambian Kwacha, as should everyone.
--Joey
How about this:
They are round because, they can't fall through, a circle is a common shape, and at circle is the most efficient shape (perimeter/area ratio).
--Joey
a bucket of kfc will cost 30 bucks!
Nooooooo!
What the hell, I'd still pay it.
--Joey
I know you are but what am I?
--Joey
There is one main problem to subscription based models. The record companies complain the loudest about losing money on the pop-scene. As the article suggests, jazz, classical and non-mainstream genres are doing okay and the imply (rightly so?) because they are aimed at a more affluent, older crowd.
So they want kids, to buy the mainstream pop stuff right? However, all the subscription services require, you guessed it, a credit card. How about this for an idea. You sell the equivalent of prepaid phone cards at b&m locations (7-11, grocery stores etc) and that buys you X amount of songs.
If you price that at about 50 cents a song or so, you probably can get kids to buy the cards. This is especially true, if I could get high quality, fast access, etc.
I must add to the conditions, no copy protection.
People will pay! You could even encourage people to buy cds online (or offline) using these cards. You could include the cards in CDs for promotional value.
One last thing, before P2P, I used to buy around 6 cds a year (this was at my cd buying height) so far this year I have purchased 4. I am pretty sure I will be adding one more on July 8th with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy's latest effort.
I pretty much have maintained the same purchase rate CDs.
Online downloading is more about convenience than anything else.
--Joey
Like so many listed there.
Seriously, if you dislike President Bush just say so, and list the reasons why you don't. If you feel you are right there is no need to make shit up.
You're entitled to your own opinion but you are not entitled to your own facts.
--Joey
Somebody mirror this before it gets /.ed
--Joey
the slashdot effect.
I have not seen the commercial, but have enjoyed his ridiculous inventions...
--Joey
Recording off of the radio requires comparitively greater effort than does pirating mp3's. While pirating, you can do a quick search and find what you are looking for on demand, whereas you need to "hunt and trap" what you are trying to find on the radio.
So let me get this straight, the reason why it is not as immoral is because you have to work harder to do it? So I guess by that logic, if you kill someone with a gun that is extremely immoral but if were to slit your victim's wrist and let the blood ooze out slowly, it is somehow less immoral because it took longer?
No doubt the RIAA sees it like this. They only raise objections when it becomes convenient to pirate.
They realize that taking a hardline with people taping a song off the radio will get them no where (ie people feel they are entitled to do that, much like taping a tv show).
--Joey
I know, um it was supposed to be a joke.
Oh well, I failed miserably....
--Joey
I thought it was April 31st until I realized, "Wait a second, April doesn't have 31 days!" Then I remembered that 2003 is a leap year, so I am all good.
--Joey
No but stereotypes are necessarily generalizations.
--Joey
We can define everyone. What does an Iraqi look like? Go go go...I bet you came up with someone you just saw on TV, or one of the statue protestors right?
Hmm...not all Iraqis are that person. We use generalizations to wade through data. Every snowflake is different, every Zebra, and every thumbprint. We can analyze why each is different, we just have a preconceived notion and we move on.
Stereotypes are true. Are they 100% true? No of course not.
Your are posting on slashdot, are you unathletic?
--Joey
The Middle East is backwater. Where have you been? Iraq is one of the more moderate (religiously) countries along with having a precious natural resource.
Great things can, and probably will, come to Iraq.
Not only that, (here is where I step out on to a limb) after several years of Iraqi democratic rule it will inspire other Middle Eastern countries to attempt coups(probably with the help of covert US operations). The Israel peace proccess gets a bump from Palestinians who realize they have been led by murderers and thugs. They rise up, implement democracy and a palestinian state is formed.
Soon, dictatorships start falling left and right.
Sure, this might be extremely optimistic, and the more cynical among us will be quick to trash this as some idealistic rant, but truly believe this will happen (maybe not quite the way I layed it out) in 50-60 years.
I believe our grandchildren will think of Iraq the way we ("we" if you are a babyboomlet) think of Japan.
--Joey
No, he is saying that you could just go online and download the songs.
That could happen...
--Joey
Now it is down 6%, but I can understand that
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=AAPL&d=t
Check out their PE ratio, 287+? To give you an idea, a PE of 15 is considered good. Though high PE is a sign that investors believe that enormous growth lies ahead.
I wouldn't buy Apple right now...
--Joey
Not bigoted, truthful. Truuuuthful! If someone tells you they are poor and their definition of poor is not being able to get the latest and greatest video card, wouldn't you say "You are poor by an upper middle class standards"
A wealthy man in Ghana, Africa makes 3 dollars a week, but he is wealthy by Ghana standards not German standards for example.
It's not like I said it was somehow impossible to modernize a bunch of towel wrapping sandmonkeys, I simply said, Iraq is modern compared to its neighbors.
What's bigoted about that?
--Joey
I have seen too many people making references to Iraq by appending other country's values to it. So read this from the CIA
/ iz.html
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos
It has information like literacy rates, religions, etc. I was surprised by a few things, for example, I thought all Iraqis were Arabs, but it turns out there are a fair amount of Turks, Assyrians etc.
I hope they can become a shining example of democracy in a region that is dominated by dictators.
After all, Italy, Germany and Japan have it pretty well now!
--Joey
Let's not forget that Iraq is not Afghanistan. It is a "modern" country that had a scumbag for a leader.
--Joey
I am using modern in the context of the Middle East, it is not modern by Western European or American standards.
I had an HP722 and it still works fine. I have a Canon that, in the immortal words of Bart Simpson, "both sucks and blows at the same time".
Laser is the way to go. I got a Samsung-1430 which is very similar to yours. In the last year, I recouped the initial 275 dollars (buy.com + a coupon) in the savings of cartridges alone.
Unfortunately, cheap laser color is hard to come by, so I still have my crappy bubblejet.
--Joey
"If successful, perhaps one day you could give your love a diamond engagement CPU instead of a ring!"
You don't know a whole lot of women do you?
For marriage that is defintely out, but for engagement purposes, perhaps it could serve as a token ring?
--Joey