Well, like he said earlier in the thread, the host: field would go on the next line and it doesn't even allow him to finish the request -- a blatant violation of HTTP in the first place. As for the capitalization, an invalid request should cause the Web server to generate a 400, not a weird redirect.
Well, I said the best result for the label. The initial scenario is what the label wants to see, and exists to show the fundamental problem with the idea that more popular songs should be more expensive.
I don't know how much anybody really cares whether they get their songs right away or the next day. Probably, some are willing to pay a higher price for an immediate download. We will see how useful immediate delivery is when cell phone companies open their $2/song instant gratification stores.
And of course it's a form of queueing, which is perfectly natural. Newer music is worth more in the marketplace, so people who are not willing to pay as much can wait for a while and the price will go down. I don't see a problem with that.
Quite right. That's why this suggestion is really completely dumb.
Can we analyze this in a better way? Sure. The best result for the label is for each person to (honestly) announce what they are willing to pay for a given song, and for the label to sell at each user's price (even if it is only a penny above transaction costs).
There are only two problems with the above. One is that people are not honest, and two is that most would find it unfair to be charged more because they valued the music more highly. So how do we solve that, and retain market-based pricing?
Easy enough. On Monday (for instance), everyone who wants a song puts a price in that they are willing to pay. Each song has a finite number of copies per day (say 500), and at midnight the transaction is awarded to the 500 highest bidders. They all pay the same price -- the price offered by the lowest of the top 500.
How does the store determine the number of downloads available? Though a new song's scarcity would need a human determination, after a while the computer can use the bidding history over the last 30 days to determine an optimum level of scarcity for the song.
But the thing here is that nobody is discussing what the student actually said, which I gather was that a bunch of other specific students had the maturity of three-year-olds. If a customer comes in to your store and starts telling other customers that they are idiots, you have the right to kick him out. That's not a straw man; it's apparently what really happened here.
This isn't some kid who was complaining about the government or the evils of capitalism or whatever. Was it political speech, or just childish insults?
I tried to drive my car over a lake and it just said "sploosh". You'd think they could put a dashboard indicator or something for when you were attempting to use an unsupported feature.
There's nothing legitimate about an obsession with "property values". Nobody has a right for their property to maintain a certain value. If land speculation is a critical part of your retirement plan, you might want to consider some less risky investments.
"Attention please, this is your captain speaking. We're going to be delayed as there is heavy traffic at our destination airport and it will take another half hour for us to get permission to land. First class customers, please proceed to the skydiving hatch; you will be landing by parachute in 5 minutes. Please remember that you are allowed to use cell phones during the descent, but be careful not to drop them when your chute deploys. Thank you."
My girlfriend's Mac Mini power supply rests on carpet and is often covered by a blanket.
I used to keep the power supply for my GameCube in a closed cabinet.
Heck, back in the days of the C64, the power supply was always on a carpet, surrounded by other cables.
This idea that self-contained power supplies have to be kept on a hard surface with airflow is a completely new one invented by XBox 360 apologists. Stick with the argument that it's not uncommon for new hardware to have problems, and as long as Microsoft is willing to provide a fix it's not really a big deal.
I remember Signal 11. I never really got it, though.
Most of his comments were well-written, interesting, and reasonably thoughtful, if not terribly original. It seemed like a childish exercise, then, for him to claim that his lack of sincerity proved that he had suckered the entire system. I mean, if I told you that I don't really "mean it" when I go to work and do my job, does that make me some kind of a rebel who ought not be paid?
"Ma" and "Pop" are never going to buy an XBox. Besides the creepy green color and the carefully targeted marketing campaign, the machine itself is actually frightening. The XBox always has been and always will be the domain of self-styled "gamers" who have lost sight of the potential greatness of the art in a blinding whirlwind of sports, sim-breasts, and first-person-shooters. (I refer not to the 360, though, which has a different approach.)
Ma and Pop will buy a PS2, but they should have bought a GameCube.
Do they teach manners in Europe? Seriously, the fact that occasionally rude British types invade the forum and insult Americans doesn't exactly make this an "international" site. This is an American site, and you are visiting, and not too graciously if I may say.
It's not like we should be surprised. Does nobody remember this from five years ago? Emphasis mine.
"The [music] industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams. It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what. Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [ISP]. We will firewall it at your PC. These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake." --Steve Heckler, Sony senior VP, 2000
Bogomips is an idle loop calibration -- it measures how quickly your processor does absolutely nothing. That said, it's about as useful as any other benchmark.
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Well, like he said earlier in the thread, the host: field would go on the next line and it doesn't even allow him to finish the request -- a blatant violation of HTTP in the first place. As for the capitalization, an invalid request should cause the Web server to generate a 400, not a weird redirect.
A twenty-five-thousand-dollar SOUND CARD? I notice that your nick is "supersocialist"... what are these, Soviet dollars?
Well, I said the best result for the label. The initial scenario is what the label wants to see, and exists to show the fundamental problem with the idea that more popular songs should be more expensive.
I don't know how much anybody really cares whether they get their songs right away or the next day. Probably, some are willing to pay a higher price for an immediate download. We will see how useful immediate delivery is when cell phone companies open their $2/song instant gratification stores.
And of course it's a form of queueing, which is perfectly natural. Newer music is worth more in the marketplace, so people who are not willing to pay as much can wait for a while and the price will go down. I don't see a problem with that.
Quite right. That's why this suggestion is really completely dumb.
Can we analyze this in a better way? Sure. The best result for the label is for each person to (honestly) announce what they are willing to pay for a given song, and for the label to sell at each user's price (even if it is only a penny above transaction costs).
There are only two problems with the above. One is that people are not honest, and two is that most would find it unfair to be charged more because they valued the music more highly. So how do we solve that, and retain market-based pricing?
Easy enough. On Monday (for instance), everyone who wants a song puts a price in that they are willing to pay. Each song has a finite number of copies per day (say 500), and at midnight the transaction is awarded to the 500 highest bidders. They all pay the same price -- the price offered by the lowest of the top 500.
How does the store determine the number of downloads available? Though a new song's scarcity would need a human determination, after a while the computer can use the bidding history over the last 30 days to determine an optimum level of scarcity for the song.
But the thing here is that nobody is discussing what the student actually said, which I gather was that a bunch of other specific students had the maturity of three-year-olds. If a customer comes in to your store and starts telling other customers that they are idiots, you have the right to kick him out. That's not a straw man; it's apparently what really happened here.
This isn't some kid who was complaining about the government or the evils of capitalism or whatever. Was it political speech, or just childish insults?
I tried to drive my car over a lake and it just said "sploosh". You'd think they could put a dashboard indicator or something for when you were attempting to use an unsupported feature.
There's nothing legitimate about an obsession with "property values". Nobody has a right for their property to maintain a certain value. If land speculation is a critical part of your retirement plan, you might want to consider some less risky investments.
That would be awesome.
"Attention please, this is your captain speaking. We're going to be delayed as there is heavy traffic at our destination airport and it will take another half hour for us to get permission to land. First class customers, please proceed to the skydiving hatch; you will be landing by parachute in 5 minutes. Please remember that you are allowed to use cell phones during the descent, but be careful not to drop them when your chute deploys. Thank you."
Oh gods... if it ain't broke, it ain't Mosaic.
My girlfriend's Mac Mini power supply rests on carpet and is often covered by a blanket.
I used to keep the power supply for my GameCube in a closed cabinet.
Heck, back in the days of the C64, the power supply was always on a carpet, surrounded by other cables.
This idea that self-contained power supplies have to be kept on a hard surface with airflow is a completely new one invented by XBox 360 apologists. Stick with the argument that it's not uncommon for new hardware to have problems, and as long as Microsoft is willing to provide a fix it's not really a big deal.
I remember Signal 11. I never really got it, though.
Most of his comments were well-written, interesting, and reasonably thoughtful, if not terribly original. It seemed like a childish exercise, then, for him to claim that his lack of sincerity proved that he had suckered the entire system. I mean, if I told you that I don't really "mean it" when I go to work and do my job, does that make me some kind of a rebel who ought not be paid?
"Ma" and "Pop" are never going to buy an XBox. Besides the creepy green color and the carefully targeted marketing campaign, the machine itself is actually frightening. The XBox always has been and always will be the domain of self-styled "gamers" who have lost sight of the potential greatness of the art in a blinding whirlwind of sports, sim-breasts, and first-person-shooters. (I refer not to the 360, though, which has a different approach.)
Ma and Pop will buy a PS2, but they should have bought a GameCube.
Yes, since I don't trust the second guy.
Yeah, so the big question for the rest of us is: how old are you two?
Whoa, how did I screw that up? Thanks.
It did seem like a lot...
If you make your bookmark https://mail.google.com/ it will present both the login and the rest of the site via HTTPS.
Driving across the country is a 2,500 mile trek, more or less. In a car that gets 40 MPG, that's 625 gallons of gas, or something like $1500.
A better MP3 player than yours is, what, $50? If you get the urge to drive across the country, just stop at Best Buy first.
I think you should do that and charge royalties of a hojillion dollars so that people will STOP IT.
For the same reason every other "groundbreaking" first-person shooter is called "groundbreaking" -- the state of video game criticism is atrocious.
The health risks of trans fats do not prove that "processed" food is bad, unless you narrowly define "processed" to mean "partially hydrogenated".
Do you have a scientific cite for your wide-ranging theory of nutritional health or is this just another New Age superstition?
Do they teach manners in Europe? Seriously, the fact that occasionally rude British types invade the forum and insult Americans doesn't exactly make this an "international" site. This is an American site, and you are visiting, and not too graciously if I may say.
It's not like we should be surprised. Does nobody remember this from five years ago? Emphasis mine.
"The [music] industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams. It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what. Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source - we will block it at your cable company, we will block it at your phone company, we will block it at your [ISP]. We will firewall it at your PC. These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake." --Steve Heckler, Sony senior VP, 2000
Bogomips is an idle loop calibration -- it measures how quickly your processor does absolutely nothing. That said, it's about as useful as any other benchmark.
Personally I don't even *know* anyone who still watches over-the-air broadcasts.