Six figures? That's not a whole lot of money, not even a million dollars. That kind of revenue for a quarter is pathetic. Is this net gain or is this money earned before subtracting what they've since paid in lawyers' fees?
Yes this may be an example of poetic justice, but as is usual, we, the consumers, lose. They may not get to sell this product, but as a direct consequence of that, we do not get the opportunity to buy it.
Well other players could then compete with the iPod, and music from iTMS could be played on them. But this also goes for the reverse. If the iPod is the most popular player, other stores could compete with iTMS selling iPod playable content. It's widely known that Apple breaks even with iTMS, and just uses it as a vehicle to sell iPods. Here's how I envision the New Hotness (tm):
I can shop around to a few different music stores for a song that I can play on my iPod, maybe even a-la pricewatch.
When I buy a CD, not only is the regular CD-quality audio on there, but also tracks that I can load right on to my iPod ( I know this can be done already with just ripping the CD ). Perhaps even I can buy a mini-cd with just the AAC-encoded tracks on them for less money than the full out CD.
If FairPlay is licensed out and becomes the de-facto standard, I can play my digital music on my Mac, iPod, and even in Winamp on my PC at work.
Maybe so, but there still isn't decent home broadband speed to handle this kind of punishment. Imagine trying to send out 300-400MB from your home cable modem to 5 people. It would take a long freaking time, especially with many cable providers capping upload speeds severely.
Now maybe if they could hire Bram Cohen to implement a really bad-ass p2p way of sending things about, maybe then the poor guy could stop begging for handouts on his BitTorrent site.
In a perfect world, this could all be easily serviced by FTTH, let's hope Verizon's plan takes off. But seriously, though, if this is implemented, I'd give it a week or so before someone creates a kind of Software-TiVo with capability to export received shows to DivX, and TV shows spread like malaria.
It all depends on what you need the computer to do. If it's a special purpose machine for, let's say, primality testing for large Mersenne numbers, then standard x86 or PowerPC CPUs would be a waste of money. You'd want a bunch of chips that just do FFT, and do it quickly.
Take for example Deep Crack (luminaries, remember that one?). Perfect example of specialized hardware for a single job.
Although, you are probably right in that most of todays supercomputing needs can be met by clustering together off-the-shelf equipment. Although some of the heavy lifting (like solving giant systems of partial differential equations numerically, for, say, weather modelling) could be done faster with specialized hardware, it's probably more cost-effective just to but a thousand PowerMac G5's and rack them up.
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Really? I would think that you would have more success searching for.pwl files.
Article says adding Whyline to java makes it 10x more complex. Seems to me like just another example of Computer Science grad students trying to justify their existence.
Since when are assassination threats considered part of My Rights Online?
Your right to be online is dependent first on your right to live. When your right to live is revoked, indirectly, your right to be online is too. Q.E.D.
I'd be with GWB on this one. Invade Nigeria, they probably won't put up *nearly* as much of a fight as Iraq. Screw diplomacy - nothing says 'obey me' like a bloody head on a stick.
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Six figures? That's not a whole lot of money, not even a million dollars. That kind of revenue for a quarter is pathetic. Is this net gain or is this money earned before subtracting what they've since paid in lawyers' fees?
Yes this may be an example of poetic justice, but as is usual, we, the consumers, lose. They may not get to sell this product, but as a direct consequence of that, we do not get the opportunity to buy it.
I can shop around to a few different music stores for a song that I can play on my iPod, maybe even a-la pricewatch.
When I buy a CD, not only is the regular CD-quality audio on there, but also tracks that I can load right on to my iPod ( I know this can be done already with just ripping the CD ). Perhaps even I can buy a mini-cd with just the AAC-encoded tracks on them for less money than the full out CD.
If FairPlay is licensed out and becomes the de-facto standard, I can play my digital music on my Mac, iPod, and even in Winamp on my PC at work.
Maybe so, but there still isn't decent home broadband speed to handle this kind of punishment. Imagine trying to send out 300-400MB from your home cable modem to 5 people. It would take a long freaking time, especially with many cable providers capping upload speeds severely.
Now maybe if they could hire Bram Cohen to implement a really bad-ass p2p way of sending things about, maybe then the poor guy could stop begging for handouts on his BitTorrent site.
In a perfect world, this could all be easily serviced by FTTH, let's hope Verizon's plan takes off. But seriously, though, if this is implemented, I'd give it a week or so before someone creates a kind of Software-TiVo with capability to export received shows to DivX, and TV shows spread like malaria.
But if it doesn't integrate with Office and Exchange Server, embrace and extend.
iirc whistler was the code name for xp?
It all depends on what you need the computer to do. If it's a special purpose machine for, let's say, primality testing for large Mersenne numbers, then standard x86 or PowerPC CPUs would be a waste of money. You'd want a bunch of chips that just do FFT, and do it quickly.
Take for example Deep Crack (luminaries, remember that one?). Perfect example of specialized hardware for a single job.
Although, you are probably right in that most of todays supercomputing needs can be met by clustering together off-the-shelf equipment. Although some of the heavy lifting (like solving giant systems of partial differential equations numerically, for, say, weather modelling) could be done faster with specialized hardware, it's probably more cost-effective just to but a thousand PowerMac G5's and rack them up.
Really? I would think that you would have more success searching for .pwl files.
hahaha oh my god, moderators, please....where are you?
So it's useful how, then?
Whose Ph.D. thesis just got its shit RUINED by my 4 lines of PHP?
No, your version of English is outdated, missing, or corrupted. Please re-install from a known good copy.
Article says adding Whyline to java makes it 10x more complex. Seems to me like just another example of Computer Science grad students trying to justify their existence.
Too early...maybe in 2007, but not yet.
Two documents that contain no data, and another horrid green background. Wow.
Why? This is slashdot - surely a thinly veiled sarcastic jab at the US president AND a Family Guy quote would fare well...
So my years of using president@whitehouse.gov to register on forums and such has not been in vain?
Since when are assassination threats considered part of My Rights Online?
Your right to be online is dependent first on your right to live. When your right to live is revoked, indirectly, your right to be online is too. Q.E.D.
I'd be with GWB on this one. Invade Nigeria, they probably won't put up *nearly* as much of a fight as Iraq. Screw diplomacy - nothing says 'obey me' like a bloody head on a stick.
just be glad you're not asdf@asdf.com.
in related news, people care about what TMBG has to say.
Because:
The moon belongs to America, and anxiously awaits the arrival of our astro-men. Will you be among them?
i'm an american conservative, and i consider "mental harm" to be a bullet through the head.
bring on the porn.
I, Robot: Liked it better when it was called Terminator.
yeah i was about to say, "WHERE THE MAC VERSION AT". i think google is slipping, this is a half assed effort.