Try and keep it civil folks. The person reading these most likely has no idea what you are talking about. Stay cool, spell it out, and it might make it someone who isn't a jackass.
no kidding. It's not like they have $40,000,000,000 tucked away under the mattress or anything to fight off new competition.
This is one of the better attacks on Linux they could muster, try and cut it off at the roots (Sys V).
The security FUD is coming next, and will fail, since the public doesn't use Linux, but knows what Windows is like. It'll be tough for them to convince everyone that they really are better for security than something no regular folks use but security conscious, paranoid geeks seem to love.
If you can show me the compelling interest of the state to make sure that its citizens are not "harmed" by aggressive advertising, I'd be interested to see it.
see: Iraq. But I kid.
You are setting a high bar for your state intervention requirement. Personally I would prefer that we have more stringent requirements for advertising claims. I don't think 'harm' needs to be shown, unless you would believe that broadcating misleading information 'harms' a marketplace, like I do.
Having a mislead public is not good for a democracy or a free market.
People make better decisions when they have better information. I think someone won a Nobel Prize for figuring out the mathematical correlation between the two.
Having a useful filter as some point seems like a good idea. Creating a useful filter is a far more difficult task than just mentioning it, but if you get one that works, it sure would be nice to clean the feces out of the drinking water from time to time.
you're right in the sense that it is not a direct calculation based on "hourly wage * hours to create CD" vs "CD_Price".
However, it does illustrate the point that after a certain point, it becomes useless to do it yourself. Currently, the price of CD's make it more economical, for most people, to find the music themselves.
It is convenience that they should be going after, not trying to limit an infinite supply by making things less convenient to the end user. They are fighting the wrong way, IMHO.
But then again, my MO is to make peace, not profits, so the entire context of judging the worhwhileness of their action is skewed.
Is there something in the rule that says all content must have a flag? Is flag-less content presumed to be pirated?
New devices will look for a flag. If they find a flag, they get to decide if it can be copied. All new devices will look for flags. There is a specific known incompatibility with home burned DVDs (quickly putting people like Red Vs. Blue out of business) that are made with new equipment, as it won't play on the old.
Flags are added at the producers discretion, they are mandated on the hardware. There is a number of bits that can be flipped to delineate various levels of control.
As the 'regime' (their word) becomes integrated, it will slowly become the prevailing opinion that anything without a flag is suspect. My guess would be that eventually it would be mandated that all content have an 'officially legal tag' before it can be played.
Reading through that FCC decision makes it seem like the FCC is the red-headed stepchild and the MPAA and 'media industry' is the drunken truck-driver father. The way they kow-tow to this industry is sad, if not downright servile.
'Oh, no. They might hold back their content! I'm so scared'
Right, they'd hold back their content for about a day. There is a high-level poker game going on, and the people represeting 'us' are playing with their cards face-up on the table, never raising, and always calling.
If CD prices dropped past the $10 range (to only 1000% of the break even point) there is far less economic reason to download an album. Hmm, let's see, spend 1 hour working, make $8. Spend 1 hour finding all the tracks of the same quality, testing,them, organizing them, and burning them. If a CD costs less than that $8, there isn't too much question about how I should spend my time (and money).
If CD's drop below that special price point for their main customers, they will be as 'free' as the stuff one can download.
Wrong example. This is yelling 'Hey, there's a really hot thing in here that burns!!!' in a crowded theatre, selling fire extinguishers outside, and pointing to the popcorn machine while people panic at the thought of dieing horribly by fire, err salivate at the thought of all those MIPS on a G5....
You were talking about possibility for gamers to pick up quality older titles, miss out on the latest whiz-bang graphics, and save upgrading dollars. The Star Control 2 clone fits the bill for that.
The PDA stuff game as an afterthought when I remembered what the thread was about...and the 640 x 480 graphics on that game (which I've been playing through again...for the first time:-) and thought they would be a good match.
hehe, they don't need to set one up. Since they hold all the rights, they can use them as strings on the puppets to keep the services in line.
RIAA: What?!? You are thinking about lowering that price to $.50 to compete? No more licenses for you. (to be more precise, your fee is now $.51 per song).
An amusing post, but saying that MS-IIS is 'monopoly driven' when in the same sentence it is referenced how much more popular apache is seems somewhat odd.
Until you realize that the 'monopoly' they control is on the desktop. They don't have a server monopoly for the same reason they do have a desktop one, applications. Or to be more blunt, Apache. You don't have to use MS to have an interactive, fully-functioning server. You do, in most cases, for the desktop.
The drive would then be to use that desktop monopoly to overtake the back-end server. It doesn't work as well as the Office upgrade wheel as this article is highlighting. Without serious hooks and the ability to introduce subtle incompatibilities (intentionally or not), they haven't been able to take over. And features aren't really a question, when file and print serving covers 80% of most company's server needs.
However, this belies the fact that while 67% of ther servers run Apache, over 90% of the clients use IE, where hooks and subtle incompatibilities are the SOP.
One thing that this study may highlight is that once journalists form a hypothesis, they will tend to seek out the stories that support it.
Or that news media organizations tends to hire journalists that lean their direction. Or journalists tend to work for a company that has their general outlook on stuff. What, there shouldn't be leaning in journalism? True dat. But there will probably always be at least a little bit (dang liberals talking about weird shit like anthropic bias and self-selection).
'Course, it could also be that people like to be happy, so they stay away from information that might make them unhappy, after learning where unhappy information comes from. Self-esteem self-selection from a media perspective.
If it leans too far though, it ain't journalism, and calling it 'news' is a stretch. Which is why using Faux is still funny as all hell.
Objectively, it should be the Fox Editorials Shouted At You From On High Channel, but that's tough to fit on a logo.
reading that guy's home page (the poor, stupid one), it seems objectively obvious that the guy is a stalker, at least in the colloquial sense.
On meeting Paul Krugman : "I have looked evil in the face. I've been in the same room with it. I don't know how else to describe my feelings now except to say that I feel unclean, and I'm having to fight being afraid." -Donald Luskin
hehe. Well, yea, with definitions and what not....
It does apply to some stuff. And that particular part of the DMCA needs to be scrapped and re-written, IMHO. The narrowness of those exceptions, and the broadness that has been interpreted in the marketplace, are still quite a distance apart.
I have to break laws to watch my own DVDs on my handheld digital player, so more exceptions are imminent.
The US Librarian of Congress has created the following four narrow exemptions from the DMCA's general ban on circumvention for the next three-years:
1. Compilations consisting of lists of Internet locations blocked by commercially marketed filtering software applications that are intended to prevent access to domains, websites or portions of websites, but not including lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to protect against damage to a computer or computer network or lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to prevent receipt of email.
2. Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.
3. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.
4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling of the ebook's read-aloud function and that prevent the enabling of screen readers to render the text into a specialized format
Windows 95 is considered obsolete and unsupported by Microsoft, right? And doesn't that end many questions on MAME?
And then probably cease to matter as next gen broadband (1G/s) starts to make it into houses.
It will get pushed back because the networks won't want to lose even more market share. Think about it. Those people who only get broadcast TV signals watch a lot of network TV, and say so in their diaries. While cable will continue to penetrate, and many will have satellite, there will still be a 5%-8% or so part of the market that gets only the over-the-air signal.
Considering the need (*cough*) of these people to say up to date with the latest new-fangled doohickeys, I'd say less that half will upgrade when faced with a forced buying decision (on a fixed budget, no less). They'll push the date back, if they find a sizable number of people unwilling to upgrade, and I'll bet they will.
And like I said, by then, that might be the networks only captive market.
Since resources are scarce, relative to the demands they need to satisfy, mechanismss are required in order to distribute resources between individual end uses (see microeconomics), and to ensurethat all available resources are fully employed (see macroeconomics).
And if resources aren't scarce, relative to the demand they need to satisfy?
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Try and keep it civil folks. The person reading these most likely has no idea what you are talking about. Stay cool, spell it out, and it might make it someone who isn't a jackass.
no kidding. It's not like they have $40,000,000,000 tucked away under the mattress or anything to fight off new competition.
This is one of the better attacks on Linux they could muster, try and cut it off at the roots (Sys V).
The security FUD is coming next, and will fail, since the public doesn't use Linux, but knows what Windows is like. It'll be tough for them to convince everyone that they really are better for security than something no regular folks use but security conscious, paranoid geeks seem to love.
Yes, you and me should be free to speak as we wish.
Nike shouldn't.
where's the tryout?
I don't dress, act, and look like a bankruptcy consultant for nothing.
If you can show me the compelling interest of the state to make sure that its citizens are not "harmed" by aggressive advertising, I'd be interested to see it.
see: Iraq. But I kid.
You are setting a high bar for your state intervention requirement. Personally I would prefer that we have more stringent requirements for advertising claims. I don't think 'harm' needs to be shown, unless you would believe that broadcating misleading information 'harms' a marketplace, like I do.
Having a mislead public is not good for a democracy or a free market.
People make better decisions when they have better information. I think someone won a Nobel Prize for figuring out the mathematical correlation between the two.
Having a useful filter as some point seems like a good idea. Creating a useful filter is a far more difficult task than just mentioning it, but if you get one that works, it sure would be nice to clean the feces out of the drinking water from time to time.
you're right in the sense that it is not a direct calculation based on "hourly wage * hours to create CD" vs "CD_Price".
However, it does illustrate the point that after a certain point, it becomes useless to do it yourself. Currently, the price of CD's make it more economical, for most people, to find the music themselves.
It is convenience that they should be going after, not trying to limit an infinite supply by making things less convenient to the end user. They are fighting the wrong way, IMHO.
But then again, my MO is to make peace, not profits, so the entire context of judging the worhwhileness of their action is skewed.
Is there something in the rule that says all content must have a flag? Is flag-less content presumed to be pirated?
New devices will look for a flag. If they find a flag, they get to decide if it can be copied. All new devices will look for flags. There is a specific known incompatibility with home burned DVDs (quickly putting people like Red Vs. Blue out of business) that are made with new equipment, as it won't play on the old.
Flags are added at the producers discretion, they are mandated on the hardware. There is a number of bits that can be flipped to delineate various levels of control.
As the 'regime' (their word) becomes integrated, it will slowly become the prevailing opinion that anything without a flag is suspect. My guess would be that eventually it would be mandated that all content have an 'officially legal tag' before it can be played.
Reading through that FCC decision makes it seem like the FCC is the red-headed stepchild and the MPAA and 'media industry' is the drunken truck-driver father. The way they kow-tow to this industry is sad, if not downright servile.
'Oh, no. They might hold back their content! I'm so scared'
Right, they'd hold back their content for about a day. There is a high-level poker game going on, and the people represeting 'us' are playing with their cards face-up on the table, never raising, and always calling.
Later, after the Iraqi's realized it was an 'occupation', the transtion from peacemaking to fighting was not as much sudden as it was inexorable.
If CD prices dropped past the $10 range (to only 1000% of the break even point) there is far less economic reason to download an album. Hmm, let's see, spend 1 hour working, make $8. Spend 1 hour finding all the tracks of the same quality, testing,them, organizing them, and burning them. If a CD costs less than that $8, there isn't too much question about how I should spend my time (and money).
If CD's drop below that special price point for their main customers, they will be as 'free' as the stuff one can download.
Remember folks, the whole equation is over T.
Wrong example. This is yelling 'Hey, there's a really hot thing in here that burns!!!' in a crowded theatre, selling fire extinguishers outside, and pointing to the popcorn machine while people panic at the thought of dieing horribly by fire, err salivate at the thought of all those MIPS on a G5....
you can turn that meme into a molecule and introduce it into the water supply on this planet?
It would save us all a lot of time.
sorry, I was being obscure.
:-) and thought they would be a good match.
You were talking about possibility for gamers to pick up quality older titles, miss out on the latest whiz-bang graphics, and save upgrading dollars. The Star Control 2 clone fits the bill for that.
The PDA stuff game as an afterthought when I remembered what the thread was about...and the 640 x 480 graphics on that game (which I've been playing through again...for the first time
Better yet, get the Ur Quan Masters. Heck, that game could be played on a hand-held if they had the story for the voices.
hehe, they don't need to set one up. Since they hold all the rights, they can use them as strings on the puppets to keep the services in line.
RIAA: What?!? You are thinking about lowering that price to $.50 to compete? No more licenses for you. (to be more precise, your fee is now $.51 per song).
that's what travelocity uses, or something similar.
A buddy of mine watches the blinken lights there. He can tell what time of day it is, and often the day itself, just by watching the traffic patterns.
An amusing post, but saying that MS-IIS is 'monopoly driven' when in the same sentence it is referenced how much more popular apache is seems somewhat odd.
Until you realize that the 'monopoly' they control is on the desktop. They don't have a server monopoly for the same reason they do have a desktop one, applications. Or to be more blunt, Apache. You don't have to use MS to have an interactive, fully-functioning server. You do, in most cases, for the desktop.
The drive would then be to use that desktop monopoly to overtake the back-end server. It doesn't work as well as the Office upgrade wheel as this article is highlighting. Without serious hooks and the ability to introduce subtle incompatibilities (intentionally or not), they haven't been able to take over. And features aren't really a question, when file and print serving covers 80% of most company's server needs.
However, this belies the fact that while 67% of ther servers run Apache, over 90% of the clients use IE, where hooks and subtle incompatibilities are the SOP.
One thing that this study may highlight is that once journalists form a hypothesis, they will tend to seek out the stories that support it.
Or that news media organizations tends to hire journalists that lean their direction. Or journalists tend to work for a company that has their general outlook on stuff. What, there shouldn't be leaning in journalism? True dat. But there will probably always be at least a little bit (dang liberals talking about weird shit like anthropic bias and self-selection).
'Course, it could also be that people like to be happy, so they stay away from information that might make them unhappy, after learning where unhappy information comes from. Self-esteem self-selection from a media perspective.
If it leans too far though, it ain't journalism, and calling it 'news' is a stretch. Which is why using Faux is still funny as all hell.
Objectively, it should be the Fox Editorials Shouted At You From On High Channel, but that's tough to fit on a logo.
reading that guy's home page (the poor, stupid one), it seems objectively obvious that the guy is a stalker, at least in the colloquial sense.
On meeting Paul Krugman : "I have looked evil in the face. I've been in the same room with it. I don't know how else to describe my feelings now except to say that I feel unclean, and I'm having to fight being afraid." -Donald Luskin
Fight this one, but of course.
I was afraid it was something like that.
hehe. Well, yea, with definitions and what not....
It does apply to some stuff. And that particular part of the DMCA needs to be scrapped and re-written, IMHO. The narrowness of those exceptions, and the broadness that has been interpreted in the marketplace, are still quite a distance apart.
I have to break laws to watch my own DVDs on my handheld digital player, so more exceptions are imminent.
The US Librarian of Congress has created the following four narrow exemptions from the DMCA's general ban on circumvention for the next three-years:
1. Compilations consisting of lists of Internet locations blocked by commercially marketed filtering software applications that are intended to prevent access to domains, websites or portions of websites, but not including lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to protect against damage to a computer or computer network or lists of Internet locations blocked by software applications that operate exclusively to prevent receipt of email.
2. Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.
3. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.
4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling of the ebook's read-aloud function and that prevent the enabling of screen readers to render the text into a specialized format
Windows 95 is considered obsolete and unsupported by Microsoft, right? And doesn't that end many questions on MAME?
I can't wait for the next round of exceptions.
it will get pushed back to 2010.
And then probably cease to matter as next gen broadband (1G/s) starts to make it into houses.
It will get pushed back because the networks won't want to lose even more market share. Think about it. Those people who only get broadcast TV signals watch a lot of network TV, and say so in their diaries. While cable will continue to penetrate, and many will have satellite, there will still be a 5%-8% or so part of the market that gets only the over-the-air signal.
Considering the need (*cough*) of these people to say up to date with the latest new-fangled doohickeys, I'd say less that half will upgrade when faced with a forced buying decision (on a fixed budget, no less). They'll push the date back, if they find a sizable number of people unwilling to upgrade, and I'll bet they will.
And like I said, by then, that might be the networks only captive market.
trust me, you'll like it.
hrmm. going by the linked definition.
Since resources are scarce, relative to the demands they need to satisfy, mechanismss are required in order to distribute resources between individual end uses (see microeconomics), and to ensurethat all available resources are fully employed (see macroeconomics).
And if resources aren't scarce, relative to the demand they need to satisfy?
what's the one called for studying abundance?
Scarcity is to economics as Abundance is to ???