The iTunes Music Store has had an enormous amount of success with this compared to the subscription models offered by other services, and it is more compatible with the existing customer mentality that when you pay for a film, it becomes part of your collection forever.
That's the scary part: that people actually think they own their iTunes purchases. It's close enough to look like it, but it ain't so.
Cause a $10 album off iTunes isn't going to be more than 100MB... whereas a $10 movie is going to be at least 3~4 times as big (assuming it's formatted for the video iPod).
Doing a quick bit of math, 4 billion bytes would take about 21000 seconds to send over a T1. You could do that 123 times in a 30-day month, earning $1230. As long as Apple can get bandwidth for less that $1230 per T1-equivalent, that part pays for itself.
I know there are plenty of other costs, but I don't think that the cost of actually pushing the bytes around is as much as people are thinking.
The implication being that if you can get 10Gbps from a satellite 23,000 miles away, you might be able to do as well from a transmitter only a few tens of miles away.
Their data collection has to be wireless, since no recording device is going to survive a mach 7 impact, but wireless is relatively slow.
The recently-launched SPACEWAY-3 communications satellite sports 10Gbps of bandwidth from geosynchronous orbit. I do not think wireless is as slow as you might be thinking.
My freedom to form a club of people I like is offset by the rights of other people to join clubs they wish. So whites only golf clubs are a no-no.
And yet you can't join the Knights of Columbus without being a Catholic, the Freemasons if you're an atheist, or Mensa without having a certain IQ. Clubs based on accidents of birth or upbringing aren't nearly as endangered as you think.
It all depends what you consider more important. The freedom of people with bad eye sight or the freedom of website designers.
What about the right of the designers to do as they see fit with their own property? If I run Google Ads on my site, am I bound under the ADA (since I'm receiving income from the site)? What if I have a PayPal donation link, in which case a visitor could pretty strongly argue that they're directly paying to access my content?
I categorically support the rights of the blind and others with disabilities to have full access to government resources. There are plenty of sticking points when you extend that to private property, though.
Good grief. You do rub people the wrong way, but I suppose you knew that. It just floors me, though, that he'd actually file a government complaint over flames on a message board. Well, live and learn, I guess.
No kidding? Got a link? I've quietly seethed at some of the things you've said over the years, but it never would have occurred to me to try to censor you. If I really get tired of someone, I add them to my foes list which automatically mods them down. That way, I don't have to listen to them but everyone else still can. Too bad Mr. Hudson didn't see fit to use his own personal volume control.
This is true, except that XP is a minor version upgrade from Windows 2000.
Sure, and Linux 2.6 is a minor version upgrade from Linux 2.4, which is one step up from 2.2, which is just a little tweak away from 2.0; the point being that version numbers mean nothing.
If it works on XP, what would stop it from running on 2000
You mean, like the fact that XP actually ships with newer components than W2K? By your logic, why stop at Windows 2000? If it can be made to run on XP, then why not NT4? NT3.51? At some point you have to draw a line in the sand and say "beyond this point we do not go". It likes like they picked their cutoff.
That's great for cheap paperbacks I've personally bought, but what about the autographed William Gibson novel? The copy of "A Fire Upon The Deep" that a friend gave me? A faded "The Gunslinger" I bought when it first hit the shelves?
The data inside the covers is easily replacable. The metadata stored in the physical object itself isn't so easy to get back, and I don't particularly care to part with it. If this guy owns 3,500 books, I think the "collection" motivation is pretty strong with him as well.
This is good news. If one jurisdiction deems Fox News to be obscene like it is, then it can be be removed from the air there, and the Supreme Court won't help Murdoch.
You might be right. And there are plenty of other districts that will find NPR, Air America, and CNN to be obscene. Won't that be fun all around?
Start offloading everything off to specialized cards, you pretty much have a multiple CPU machine, where each CPU is specially tuned to do a specific type of processing.
Excellent idea, but it really needs a catchy name to take off, something, well, friendly... How about "Amiga"?
And on that subject, what's so inherently difficult about writing CD recording software? FreeBSD comes with an IDE burning tool, burncd, that has worked perfectly every time I've used it. Is it harder to do the same under Linux, or does cdrecord include some advanced, hard-to-implement functionality that burncd skipped?
The court system has been consistently ruling against the people of the USA (i.e. Google).
Please clarify what you mean. Are you saying that they ruled against Google, the people? Or that the ruled for Google and against the people? Care to cite the case?
This is kind of a tangent but I think a major problem with the US political system is that is encourages people to identify with political parties.
I can only speak for myself, but I don't know that it's as much of a problem as you might think. When I say that I'm a Republican, it's shorthand for "the Republican party is a better fit for my beliefs than the Democratic party, and while it's not perfect, given that we live in what is effectively a two-party system, that's how I usually vote".
I'm probably more closely aligned with the Libertarian party, but since my state doesn't have an Libertarian senators that would have muddied the waters of my original message.
While you are correct that no particular party is immune to stupid ideas, some of his original selection of topics (eg, birth control) would be the favorite fodder of the Republican party. You could probably come up with a similar list that Democrats would prefer to be blocked more often than not (eg, tastelessprolifeshocksite.xxx).
I truly, honestly disagree that there's a difference. Name a given subject, and you'll find both Republicans and Democrats that would wish to censor it. Both of them seem to think that this kind of jackassery is good, at least in as much as it buys them votes from people too stupid to understand why it's bad.
Painting these issues as wholly (or even primarily) the province of one party and not the other only distracts from the issue at hand, namely that we need to unite to put a stop to this nonsense. Surely that's something that most of Slashdot could actually agree one?
On Thursday, two Senate Democrats, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Max Baucus of Montana, introduced a bill called the "Cyber Safety for Kids Act of 2006."
I know this is a difficult concept for Slashdotters to grasp, but neither party has a monopoly on stupid ideas. Vent your anger at the people doing the harm, not at whichever party is the one you don't happen to affiliate with.
If you're a Democrat, write your senator and tell them that you don't approve of these actions. I, a Republican, have done exactly that several times lately. Maybe if we all do that enough, someone will finally get the idea.
Yes, the BSDs have a much more professional approach. They actually try to retain stability instead of hacking in the latest gee-whiz device driver or VM scheme that breaks things.
OK, I love FreeBSD. In fact, I'm typing this on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE machine. Having said that, what crack are you on? FreeBSD tends to be hyper-stable, in that if you build a machine from good sources, it'll be rock-solid for ages. However, the "new" ATA system killed IDE support on a motherboard I'd been using for Linux and FreeBSD for years - I had to replace it, then install Linux on the old one for the kids. What about SCHED_ULE? Is that ever going to see the light of day? How about when Vinum was deprecated in favor of GEOM? What about when they renamed ATA drives from "wd?" to "ad?"?
Again, I'm not a FreeBSD hater by any stretch of the imagination, and even maintain a few ports (including an administrative tool I wrote myself specifically for FreeBSD), but I don't think it's radically more "stable" in the sense you mean than Linux has been. At least, that's been my experience with it. Both are wonderful OSes and I highly recommend both of them.
Of course, you might have been referring to OpenBSD as well. That system makes lead seem volatile by comparison, so you'd definitely have a point there.
Which in turn makes it easier to prove it was you who sent the message, for example if your partner later decides to betray you.
You wouldn't use a private key, for Pete's sake - you'd use symmetric encryption. You, your accomplice, and an unverifiably large set of strangers would all know the shared passphrase, and each of you could plausibly deny that the other encrypted it.
If you're going to conspire, you'll have to be more clever than that.
Sometimes the stuff in those peppers (on their way out...) makes me want to commit suicide!
There have been times I would have traded my house to a pharmacy with a large stock of Anbesol and a 5-minute delivery guarantee. I don't know that the stuff desired to numb your toothache would also quench the fires of nether hell, but I've been willing to found out on several occasions.
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As a FreeBSD user, all we ask is that after they borrow it, could they please submit patches?
That's the scary part: that people actually think they own their iTunes purchases. It's close enough to look like it, but it ain't so.
Doing a quick bit of math, 4 billion bytes would take about 21000 seconds to send over a T1. You could do that 123 times in a 30-day month, earning $1230. As long as Apple can get bandwidth for less that $1230 per T1-equivalent, that part pays for itself.
I know there are plenty of other costs, but I don't think that the cost of actually pushing the bytes around is as much as people are thinking.
The implication being that if you can get 10Gbps from a satellite 23,000 miles away, you might be able to do as well from a transmitter only a few tens of miles away.
The recently-launched SPACEWAY-3 communications satellite sports 10Gbps of bandwidth from geosynchronous orbit. I do not think wireless is as slow as you might be thinking.
And yet you can't join the Knights of Columbus without being a Catholic, the Freemasons if you're an atheist, or Mensa without having a certain IQ. Clubs based on accidents of birth or upbringing aren't nearly as endangered as you think.
It all depends what you consider more important. The freedom of people with bad eye sight or the freedom of website designers.
What about the right of the designers to do as they see fit with their own property? If I run Google Ads on my site, am I bound under the ADA (since I'm receiving income from the site)? What if I have a PayPal donation link, in which case a visitor could pretty strongly argue that they're directly paying to access my content?
I categorically support the rights of the blind and others with disabilities to have full access to government resources. There are plenty of sticking points when you extend that to private property, though.
Good grief. You do rub people the wrong way, but I suppose you knew that. It just floors me, though, that he'd actually file a government complaint over flames on a message board. Well, live and learn, I guess.
No kidding? Got a link? I've quietly seethed at some of the things you've said over the years, but it never would have occurred to me to try to censor you. If I really get tired of someone, I add them to my foes list which automatically mods them down. That way, I don't have to listen to them but everyone else still can. Too bad Mr. Hudson didn't see fit to use his own personal volume control.
I never expected to see the day when you and I agree on a social issue. Is it cold in here? What's that pig doing in the sky?
Sure, and Linux 2.6 is a minor version upgrade from Linux 2.4, which is one step up from 2.2, which is just a little tweak away from 2.0; the point being that version numbers mean nothing.
You mean, like the fact that XP actually ships with newer components than W2K? By your logic, why stop at Windows 2000? If it can be made to run on XP, then why not NT4? NT3.51? At some point you have to draw a line in the sand and say "beyond this point we do not go". It likes like they picked their cutoff.
The data inside the covers is easily replacable. The metadata stored in the physical object itself isn't so easy to get back, and I don't particularly care to part with it. If this guy owns 3,500 books, I think the "collection" motivation is pretty strong with him as well.
You might be right. And there are plenty of other districts that will find NPR, Air America, and CNN to be obscene. Won't that be fun all around?
Excellent idea, but it really needs a catchy name to take off, something, well, friendly... How about "Amiga"?
Yes, it does. K3b is an excellent frontend to cdrecord. Of course, you still have to have cdrecord properly installed and working in order to use it.
And on that subject, what's so inherently difficult about writing CD recording software? FreeBSD comes with an IDE burning tool, burncd, that has worked perfectly every time I've used it. Is it harder to do the same under Linux, or does cdrecord include some advanced, hard-to-implement functionality that burncd skipped?
That's the unfortunate truth. On the other hand, how many life-saving drugs have been invented in non-Capitalist economies in the last 50 years?
Please clarify what you mean. Are you saying that they ruled against Google, the people? Or that the ruled for Google and against the people? Care to cite the case?
I can only speak for myself, but I don't know that it's as much of a problem as you might think. When I say that I'm a Republican, it's shorthand for "the Republican party is a better fit for my beliefs than the Democratic party, and while it's not perfect, given that we live in what is effectively a two-party system, that's how I usually vote".
I'm probably more closely aligned with the Libertarian party, but since my state doesn't have an Libertarian senators that would have muddied the waters of my original message.
I truly, honestly disagree that there's a difference. Name a given subject, and you'll find both Republicans and Democrats that would wish to censor it. Both of them seem to think that this kind of jackassery is good, at least in as much as it buys them votes from people too stupid to understand why it's bad.
Painting these issues as wholly (or even primarily) the province of one party and not the other only distracts from the issue at hand, namely that we need to unite to put a stop to this nonsense. Surely that's something that most of Slashdot could actually agree one?
And by "Republicans", you mean "Democrats":
I know this is a difficult concept for Slashdotters to grasp, but neither party has a monopoly on stupid ideas. Vent your anger at the people doing the harm, not at whichever party is the one you don't happen to affiliate with.
If you're a Democrat, write your senator and tell them that you don't approve of these actions. I, a Republican, have done exactly that several times lately. Maybe if we all do that enough, someone will finally get the idea.
OK, I love FreeBSD. In fact, I'm typing this on a FreeBSD 6-STABLE machine. Having said that, what crack are you on? FreeBSD tends to be hyper-stable, in that if you build a machine from good sources, it'll be rock-solid for ages. However, the "new" ATA system killed IDE support on a motherboard I'd been using for Linux and FreeBSD for years - I had to replace it, then install Linux on the old one for the kids. What about SCHED_ULE? Is that ever going to see the light of day? How about when Vinum was deprecated in favor of GEOM? What about when they renamed ATA drives from "wd?" to "ad?"?
Again, I'm not a FreeBSD hater by any stretch of the imagination, and even maintain a few ports (including an administrative tool I wrote myself specifically for FreeBSD), but I don't think it's radically more "stable" in the sense you mean than Linux has been. At least, that's been my experience with it. Both are wonderful OSes and I highly recommend both of them.
Of course, you might have been referring to OpenBSD as well. That system makes lead seem volatile by comparison, so you'd definitely have a point there.
Pot, meet kettle...
Queue the response from that guy with a UID of 9 or something like that.
You wouldn't use a private key, for Pete's sake - you'd use symmetric encryption. You, your accomplice, and an unverifiably large set of strangers would all know the shared passphrase, and each of you could plausibly deny that the other encrypted it.
If you're going to conspire, you'll have to be more clever than that.
There have been times I would have traded my house to a pharmacy with a large stock of Anbesol and a 5-minute delivery guarantee. I don't know that the stuff desired to numb your toothache would also quench the fires of nether hell, but I've been willing to found out on several occasions.