You'd have a good theory; but new CDs tend to cost LESS than CDs of older works.
On the one hand you could say supply, and demand; but you would be a fool. The fact is, the older CDs cost more because someone looking for an old CD is being particular and wants a specific item. They can't choose to pay less, unless they buy it used; but the only way they can buy that item is at your current price.
The new stuff they want to sell to anybody and their dog because they aren't sure it's any good; by the time they figure out it's crap they are on to selling something else...
Places like that disappeared because they created an unsustainable market. Artificially increasing the price to where it was not necessary to have a reasonable number of sales to survive.
Companies like this tend to disappear over time anyway, many of them don't actually offer service, but rather give the illusion of service and think it is worth 40-50% markup.
Parroting the party line is promoting the fact that it has formulas as showing it is superior to ODF when the formula specification is next to useless because it wasn't reviewed properly. If you read the article it isn't a cople of minor mistakes which can be corrected; it's a number of mistakes which have already made it past a review stage.
There are Personal Ethics and Business Ethics. Many people will do things in their personal life which may but unethical; these same people can approach business with the highest ethics. Very few people are ethical about everything they do, but if you are in a position of trust because of your job and you violate that trust you are worthless. The description, of having a company machine dedicated to holding the spoils, is a sign of not only unethical employees, but of unethical management and business.
There has been several cases where I live of people being caught with child pornography because they took their computer in for repair and the place they took it to found childporn on their computer. At first you will think this is a good thing; until you realize that it was probably unethical for them to find the files. (Accidents happen, and obvious filenames are excluded from this.). The problem is, if they found the files by snooping through the system, what's to say they don't plant files on customers they dislike? Nothing.
There is a big difference between casual browsing and scraping the entire guide.
Zap2It started offering their service because the hits on the website were causing them serious grief. They could have taken a more hostile approach and made it more difficult to harvest the data but instead tried to be accommodating.
You realize that with the number of people who are going to leech guide data from the various websites that publish it that all of them are going to actively make it difficult.
Zap2It should be smart enough to set up a company, or encourage one to distribute their data for products like MythTV, etc. But there is no way it won't be commercial. They have been more than generous up to this point.
The company I work for recently (less than 2 yrs) had to purchase a mac so they could test a website they were developing against Mac browsers. Due to the nature of the site a significant user base use Macs. The user base? People with money; and lots of it.
GPL 3 would have a more significant impact on their patent holdings.
The GPL doesn't cover works outside of their own domain; as such if Tivo were creative enough they could still restrict things and comply with GPL3. Personally I support Tivo. Tivo would not exist today if they hadn't restricted the Series2 units. I have one and hacked it; but I reverted it back when service was available where I live. Tivo is an excellent product that is on the border between profitability and cost-sink. There are now commodity type products which do the basic functionality of the Tivo and they are now slowly being marginalized inspite of having a superior product to most other offerings.
Tivo made the source code, with kernel patches as necessary, available to others; that was the extent of their legal obligations.
As a developer I would be more inclined to license software under BSD than GPL; but there is no way I could ever consider licensing something I put together under GPL v3. I also would never consider modifying, and distributing said modifications for anything under GPL v3. GPL v3 is a disaster from a developer standpoint; and a dream come true for the end-user. The only group I see using GPL v3 is FSF.
A non-member of SoundExchange would still have the right to assign collection to another agency; nor does it prevent an artist from collecting nothing if they were to sign individual or collective agreements to do so.
The summary is misleading and disingenuous ; in spite of the fact the RIAA deserves no sympathy.
THe difference is; in general publishers will accept books back. Simply because they have been shipped to book stores doesn't mean the publisher will actually profit from them.
If Microsoft ships 5 million copies they won't accept them back in bulk.
No. An adult; student or otherwise should not get a credit card simply because they applied for one.
They should get a credit only when their income (and there must be an income) can exceed their outlay, on average, over a period of a year. And the credit amount should be related to that. The problem is that doesn't seem to be an actual requirement.
I have enough credit available to me via credit cards that I can spend 80-90% of my take home for the year if I wanted to; this is stupid. (Not a student, I make decent money and have little real debt.), typical student can probably exceed their income for the year. net, or gross.
If you give that much credit to someone on the edge of financial chaos they should be expected to step over the edge; it's almost impossible not to.
The average college student can't handle a credit card. They do not have the resources, or experience and they are in desperate want of money. It is entirely irresponsible to give the average college student a credit card, and yet they are marketed to en-mass.
As long as the numbers make sense I don't think there is much point in quibbling over the margin of error (which is typically around 5%); but lets assume it's 1% in this case. 0.3% difference in the total Mac numbers is still ridiculously small, particularly to be making some sort of statement, or decision on.
in the majority of cases 'high-dept' situations are self induced and therefor are a form of seld-induced poverty. Basically, no ones problem but the perpetrators.
Perhaps I should have clarified, I was not talking about Businesses purchasing products or services. I'm Canadian, lived in greater vancouver and currently live in Winnipeg manitoba. I can assure you that there are a lot of people that are fulling willing to drive to Alberta (from Winnipeg) just to save on sales tax. But, we were not talking about people physically shopping, but rather over the internet.
When importing items into Canada you do not pay PST on the items at customs, with SOME exceptions. Vehicles being one of them. Vehicles and realty property are not handled the same as most items. They are the exceptions.
The point I was trying to raise, and several people missed (but not all) is the complexity the U.S. seems to enjoy when it comes to taxation. You need to fully categorize all your products as the tax rate charged at each level, State, County and City may, or may not apply to various items, there is no consistancy and makes the issues in Canada of PST and GST and the variations look utterly simplistic.
PST, GST, HST, QST, combined with a few minor issues like environmental taxes. Multiply the complexity by about 1000 if you want to compare it to the U.S.; the fact is retail taxation in the U.S. is stupidly complex.
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You'd have a good theory; but new CDs tend to cost LESS than CDs of older works.
On the one hand you could say supply, and demand; but you would be a fool. The fact is, the older CDs cost more because someone looking for an old CD is being particular and wants a specific item. They can't choose to pay less, unless they buy it used; but the only way they can buy that item is at your current price.
The new stuff they want to sell to anybody and their dog because they aren't sure it's any good; by the time they figure out it's crap they are on to selling something else...
MTS is a private company.
And I wouldn't use them for Internet if I had a choice; I use Shaw.
Most of the population in B.C. is in the lower-mainland.
The rest is quite low density and, a side from a few hot spots, is quite spread out.
Even if they aren't covered by the program, or choose not to take advantage of it because of distance, etc, it won't be a significant impact.
Places like that disappeared because they created an unsustainable market. Artificially increasing the price to where it was not necessary to have a reasonable number of sales to survive.
Companies like this tend to disappear over time anyway, many of them don't actually offer service, but rather give the illusion of service and think it is worth 40-50% markup.
No; Microsoft is giving a kickback to Dell to prevent Linux from gaining market share by poisoning the price.
Parroting the party line is promoting the fact that it has formulas as showing it is superior to ODF when the formula specification is next to useless because it wasn't reviewed properly.
If you read the article it isn't a cople of minor mistakes which can be corrected; it's a number of mistakes which have already made it past a review stage.
There are Personal Ethics and Business Ethics.
Many people will do things in their personal life which may but unethical; these same people can approach business with the highest ethics.
Very few people are ethical about everything they do, but if you are in a position of trust because of your job and you violate that trust you are worthless.
The description, of having a company machine dedicated to holding the spoils, is a sign of not only unethical employees, but of unethical management and business.
There has been several cases where I live of people being caught with child pornography because they took their computer in for repair and the place they took it to found childporn on their computer. At first you will think this is a good thing; until you realize that it was probably unethical for them to find the files. (Accidents happen, and obvious filenames are excluded from this.). The problem is, if they found the files by snooping through the system, what's to say they don't plant files on customers they dislike? Nothing.
I can walk less than 2 blocks and buy a Mac, or, I can drive a couple of kilometers and buy a Mac.
There are lots of companies which handle Apple products, you just have to open your eyes to find them.
So pay for a subscription; the problem with disappear.
(And yes; it is now possible to subscribe from Canada).
There is a big difference between casual browsing and scraping the entire guide.
Zap2It started offering their service because the hits on the website were causing them serious grief.
They could have taken a more hostile approach and made it more difficult to harvest the data but instead tried to be accommodating.
You realize that with the number of people who are going to leech guide data from the various websites that publish it that all of them are going to actively make it difficult.
Zap2It should be smart enough to set up a company, or encourage one to distribute their data for products like MythTV, etc. But there is no way it won't be commercial. They have been more than generous up to this point.
The company I work for recently (less than 2 yrs) had to purchase a mac so they could test a website they were developing against Mac browsers.
Due to the nature of the site a significant user base use Macs. The user base? People with money; and lots of it.
So tell me; who do you aim for as a market?
GPL 3 would have a more significant impact on their patent holdings.
The GPL doesn't cover works outside of their own domain; as such if Tivo were creative enough they could still restrict things and comply with GPL3. Personally I support Tivo. Tivo would not exist today if they hadn't restricted the Series2 units. I have one and hacked it; but I reverted it back when service was available where I live. Tivo is an excellent product that is on the border between profitability and cost-sink. There are now commodity type products which do the basic functionality of the Tivo and they are now slowly being marginalized inspite of having a superior product to most other offerings.
Tivo made the source code, with kernel patches as necessary, available to others; that was the extent of their legal obligations.
As a developer I would be more inclined to license software under BSD than GPL; but there is no way I could ever consider licensing something I put together under GPL v3. I also would never consider modifying, and distributing said modifications for anything under GPL v3. GPL v3 is a disaster from a developer standpoint; and a dream come true for the end-user. The only group I see using GPL v3 is FSF.
Thankfully I bought a 2Gig USB key the other day. It had U3 on it, but I used their utility to remove it.
(I don't need, or want U3, and my primary client at this time won't allow it.).
A non-member of SoundExchange would still have the right to assign collection to another agency; nor does it prevent an artist from collecting nothing if they were to sign individual or collective agreements to do so.
The summary is misleading and disingenuous ; in spite of the fact the RIAA deserves no sympathy.
THe difference is; in general publishers will accept books back. Simply because they have been shipped to book stores doesn't mean the publisher will actually profit from them.
If Microsoft ships 5 million copies they won't accept them back in bulk.
No.
An adult; student or otherwise should not get a credit card simply because they applied for one.
They should get a credit only when their income (and there must be an income) can exceed their outlay, on average, over a period of a year. And the credit amount should be related to that. The problem is that doesn't seem to be an actual requirement.
I have enough credit available to me via credit cards that I can spend 80-90% of my take home for the year if I wanted to; this is stupid. (Not a student, I make decent money and have little real debt.), typical student can probably exceed their income for the year. net, or gross.
If you give that much credit to someone on the edge of financial chaos they should be expected to step over the edge; it's almost impossible not to.
It's as bad as handing a drunk another drink.
The average college student can't handle a credit card.
They do not have the resources, or experience and they are in desperate want of money.
It is entirely irresponsible to give the average college student a credit card, and yet they are marketed to en-mass.
The clock problem related to Windows storing local time in the on-board clock; while Apple stores UTC.
There are registry flags for Windows to override the default behaviour and use UTC for the on-board clock.
And how about...
One that might actually look ok in the living room.
As long as the numbers make sense I don't think there is much point in quibbling over the margin of error (which is typically around 5%); but lets assume it's 1% in this case.
0.3% difference in the total Mac numbers is still ridiculously small, particularly to be making some sort of statement, or decision on.
I clicked submit before I bothered to read my post.
It's ok though; I always judge people based on their slashdot posts. It's so much easier that way.
The actual decline they have reported is 0.3%; which I'm sure is well within there margin of error.
Which means, Apple's share hasn't changed. Despite the fact there are less PowerPC machines than before.
in the majority of cases 'high-dept' situations are self induced and therefor are a form of seld-induced poverty. Basically, no ones problem but the perpetrators.
Perhaps I should have clarified, I was not talking about Businesses purchasing products or services.
I'm Canadian, lived in greater vancouver and currently live in Winnipeg manitoba. I can assure you that there are a lot of people that are fulling willing to drive to Alberta (from Winnipeg) just to save on sales tax.
But, we were not talking about people physically shopping, but rather over the internet.
When importing items into Canada you do not pay PST on the items at customs, with SOME exceptions. Vehicles being one of them.
Vehicles and realty property are not handled the same as most items. They are the exceptions.
The point I was trying to raise, and several people missed (but not all) is the complexity the U.S. seems to enjoy when it comes to taxation.
You need to fully categorize all your products as the tax rate charged at each level, State, County and City may, or may not apply to various items, there is no consistancy and makes the issues in Canada of PST and GST and the variations look utterly simplistic.
PST, GST, HST, QST, combined with a few minor issues like environmental taxes. Multiply the complexity by about 1000 if you want to compare it to the U.S.; the fact is retail taxation in the U.S. is stupidly complex.