Apple had made "public" about a year ago how the price structure was layed out.
Apple makes "about" a dime (but "less than" a dime, estimated at 9 cents) per track. The artists make 35 cents, and the record company racks up the rest (~55 cents).
In the case of some indie labels, the artists actually make less per track, at an estimated of 24 cents, where the rest (11 cents) goes to the broker firm (s?) that handles distribution of returns to indie labels.
Dont lauch. The biggest in-your-face turnabout that MS could do would be to dump their stupiud kernel and more Dot Net and the Win32 API on top of a Linux kernel, akin Mac OS X on top of Darwin/BSD.
From this, they would utterly piss-off Apple by serving them an equal threat (solid underpinnings, plus proprietary software everybody uses/want), kill-off any competition out of RedHat/Sun/Apple/Linus, and have a really good political barrier fending off any "MS is not a secure OS" by providing the perfect scapegoat underneath.
Nobody cares about MS's kernel or OS underneath Windows. People use Windows because it comes with their machines or because they need the software that runs on it. Take out the underpinnings and shove Linux under it and most people wont notice.
Then, make "adjustments" like they do any open standard and make porting/sharing/compatibility a lock-in solution to their product.
WIndows on Linux is a much greater threat than you think.
For better or for worse, DRM is a battle that content providers will lose.
That's somewhat shortsighted.
The DRM battle is a battle that the consumer will lose.
The music industry is already touting the idea of hicking up download music price up to 2.49$ USD a piece.
People like David Hammerton are playing along just fine with the RIAA's plan to force the download industry to be more expensive than buying wholesale albums (it's already the case for some Universal music, priced at 10$ CDN).
gas giant: anything mostly gas planet: anything round and mostly solid with an atmosphere moon: anything solid and round but without an atmosphere asteroid: anything not round
Shut up already!
You'll have Lucas sell us a reworked DVD set that includes the "Forest planet of Endor"!
The only reason VRML was ever brought up was to keep Apple's QTVR from becoming too popular with developers. It pretty much worked. Barely any development is being done with QTVR. Let alone VRML.
I've seen sample QTVR scenes with embedded hot spots, URLs and QT Sprites (water ripples, fires and smoke puffs). That would have made killing web sites, games and (!) easter eggs.
Videtron is Québec's largest cable TV provider. My digital TV subscription, Illico, provides à la carte service.
They have a weird sens of "choice", by offering their à la carte service with a base selection of channels, wich you can't choose, or 20 or so stations, half of wich I never watch (Inuit TV and Parliamentary channels... uh-hu...).
Then, you have the 20- or 30- channel "à la carte" packages, for 20$ or 30$ extra (CDN). There, it's pretty much what you want, except CRTC (Canada's TV regulatory panel) enforces a Canadian vs Foreign (aka, US) content ration.
There, there are some channels that only come un small bunches, like the "US" package, wich wraps ABC, NBC, CBS and a couple other ones into 1 "convenient" package. Well, maybe I don't want multiple channels of the same network uh?
Same thing for some canadian content. To get Canal Z (a Tech TV + Space Channel -like french channel, excellent for it's Revenge des Nerz news/tech/nerd show) only comes bundles with 3 crapy ones I never watch.
I'm also pretty sure this is the same ship we laughed about a couple years back because it's Windows NT -based navigation and propulsion controllers failed, and the ship had to be towed back to port.
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Is Linux Improving Life Of Poor In India?
No. I'd say corporate america is. While making the life of local developers miserable.
"I can't brake for nobody"
Those numbers are wrong.
Apple had made "public" about a year ago how the price structure was layed out.
Apple makes "about" a dime (but "less than" a dime, estimated at 9 cents) per track. The artists make 35 cents, and the record company racks up the rest (~55 cents).
In the case of some indie labels, the artists actually make less per track, at an estimated of 24 cents, where the rest (11 cents) goes to the broker firm (s?) that handles distribution of returns to indie labels.
Think MS would leave a Linux back-end mint? They'd modify it enough for it to become impractical in mixed Linux environments.
Remember MS XML? MS Java?
Dont lauch. The biggest in-your-face turnabout that MS could do would be to dump their stupiud kernel and more Dot Net and the Win32 API on top of a Linux kernel, akin Mac OS X on top of Darwin/BSD.
From this, they would utterly piss-off Apple by serving them an equal threat (solid underpinnings, plus proprietary software everybody uses/want), kill-off any competition out of RedHat/Sun/Apple/Linus, and have a really good political barrier fending off any "MS is not a secure OS" by providing the perfect scapegoat underneath.
Nobody cares about MS's kernel or OS underneath Windows. People use Windows because it comes with their machines or because they need the software that runs on it. Take out the underpinnings and shove Linux under it and most people wont notice.
Then, make "adjustments" like they do any open standard and make porting/sharing/compatibility a lock-in solution to their product.
WIndows on Linux is a much greater threat than you think.
You're omitting all of the pro apps, like
FileMaker
Shake
Motion
Final Cut
Final Cut Pro
DVD Studio Pro
Logic
Soundtrack
All of wich have been updated many times during that perior, or that are new releases (new from Apple, though some were acquired).
All in all, Apple is a pretty hefty software house.
No. I'd be more worried about this bunch showing up at my doorstep.
For better or for worse, DRM is a battle that content providers will lose.
That's somewhat shortsighted.
The DRM battle is a battle that the consumer will lose.
The music industry is already touting the idea of hicking up download music price up to 2.49$ USD a piece.
People like David Hammerton are playing along just fine with the RIAA's plan to force the download industry to be more expensive than buying wholesale albums (it's already the case for some Universal music, priced at 10$ CDN).
Way to go.
here's my 2 cents:
gas giant: anything mostly gas
planet: anything round and mostly solid with an atmosphere
moon: anything solid and round but without an atmosphere
asteroid: anything not round
Shut up already!
You'll have Lucas sell us a reworked DVD set that includes the "Forest planet of Endor"!
The ISS is currently running on 2 out of 4 gyroscopes.
If another fails, the ISS might start a gradual rotating acceleration or, at the very best, just slightly wobble in it's orbit.
If this occurs, the ISS will never be repaired, as the shuttle (or Soyouz for all that matters) will not be able to dock with the ISS.
This could be good news for Taco Bell!
The only reason VRML was ever brought up was to keep Apple's QTVR from becoming too popular with developers. It pretty much worked. Barely any development is being done with QTVR. Let alone VRML.
I've seen sample QTVR scenes with embedded hot spots, URLs and QT Sprites (water ripples, fires and smoke puffs). That would have made killing web sites, games and (!) easter eggs.
AMEN!
Oh! Maybe not. But you get the picture.
You're starting your own business to keep stress down?
Uh-hu.
Our Cisco IP phone at the office use powered E-Net, and 48V it is. Also serves as a network hub.
Since when does linking to a porn site gets modded up "interesting"??
Gee. Pimple out folks.
Now that is one scary glow-in-the-dark beluga!
OSRM, a company offering insurance against lawsuits like SCO
Cool.
Now, instead of paying juggernauts for their expensive software, you can pay expensive insurers to use free software!
What would america be without lawyers?
Must have been something more like a "Big Hoot".
Videtron is Québec's largest cable TV provider. My digital TV subscription, Illico, provides à la carte service.
They have a weird sens of "choice", by offering their à la carte service with a base selection of channels, wich you can't choose, or 20 or so stations, half of wich I never watch (Inuit TV and Parliamentary channels... uh-hu...).
Then, you have the 20- or 30- channel "à la carte" packages, for 20$ or 30$ extra (CDN). There, it's pretty much what you want, except CRTC (Canada's TV regulatory panel) enforces a Canadian vs Foreign (aka, US) content ration.
There, there are some channels that only come un small bunches, like the "US" package, wich wraps ABC, NBC, CBS and a couple other ones into 1 "convenient" package. Well, maybe I don't want multiple channels of the same network uh?
Same thing for some canadian content. To get Canal Z (a Tech TV + Space Channel -like french channel, excellent for it's Revenge des Nerz news/tech/nerd show) only comes bundles with 3 crapy ones I never watch.
So, choice is possible. Within constraints.
Looking at Mars, now a distant orange glow in the sky, it amazes me that we have intelligence there
Uh-hu.
Too bad we don't have any down here.
*shudder*
We should have cars that steer stupid people OFF the road.
So, anyone can help me understand we we should opt to keep stupid people ON the road?
This is anti-darwinitism. Against natural selection.
I'm positive this is Windows.
:-)
I'm also pretty sure this is the same ship we laughed about a couple years back because it's Windows NT -based navigation and propulsion controllers failed, and the ship had to be towed back to port.
I remember this dearly, as a mac user
Frame dragging occurs when a massive object is rotating.
Lire Real's engine?
I bet their servers are expressing shame right now.