Apparently that's horseshit. The publishers make the authors do most of the promotion, price badly, and overcharge. Authors who are doing it themselves have found this all out and many of them won't work with big publishing any more as a result.
Read this blog some -> http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ Do especially read his much older postings where he was just realizing how full of crap the publishers are and how he has learned to outsource, at HUGE discount, the many functions big publishing charges so much for...
Maybe so but surprise it really is the case with these guys that they wish to prop up a failing model by crushing a new one. Now where have I seen that before....
Amazon ALLOWED?! Wow, way to rewrite history there. Amazon actually went so far as to pull Macmillan books from their store in protest but knuckled under the pressure. Their middle finger at the publishers has been to make sure anyone purchasing from them sees that the price is set by the publisher and NOT by Amazon.
Amazon did NOT go quietly on this and went so far as to pull quite a few books from their digital shelves trying to NOT be forced into this but the leverage the publishers held was simply too great. This lawsuit is what should have happened all over the place right then and there, that it's only happening now years later and in the EU is a shame. Why is it that lately the EU seems to be the only place where common sense appears to be spoken?
Have you not ever noticed the blurb next to the Amazon price that notes the price is set by the PUBLISHER and not Amazon? Amazon is no longer able to set their own prices, fought this, and lost the fight right after the iPad came out. The result being that blurb to let their customers know who's fucking them - apparently you've not been paying attention....
Well except they want DRM and that's where the platforms all differ. I use Kindle and Caliber, I may buy a Nook soon but it won't ever see a DRM book. I stopped buying from Amazon when their prices shot through the roof as publishers began dictating prices. What I used to find for $9 and often less is now much more and often more expensive than hard copy. That's crap and I welcome this suit as well as the efforts of Amazon to eat the publisher's lunch by publishing themselves. They have to if they want to survive, the publishers want them gone...
With all of these requests and demand you would think someone would sit down and figure out a good set of hardware for this and build specifically for it - completely open and supported! I too have a WRT54G that needs replacing and spotted a cheap dual radio Linksys on BlackFirday sale for $70 that I ordered when I noted the comments stated it worked well with OpenWRT. That will be an interim solution at best.
Honestly I'd even build an Atom PC or something like it to best support this if I could find a distro that worked and hardware that made sense. So far no go....
15-16Gigs?! Umm, you sure about that? No book I've got has ever toped more than about 8MEGS even when I'm storing multiple formats. 15Gigs is a mind boggling number....
Yeah, I wonder how that's working out in the long run? I suspect they are going to be learning a very hard lesson if they don't make some changes, it will be interesting that's for sure!
Yup, thank you! That guy has been publishing all sorts of good information but I can never remember his name and I don't read his type of books. Really like what he's doing!
Not only that bust as many authors are finding out ebooks don't have limited shelf life. In the paper world a book is only on the shelf and then in print for shipping for a limited time. An ebook on the other hand need never leave the shelf - it's ALWAYS available for sale. Many authors are waking up to this and telling their old publishers to take a hike when they come calling asking for rights to the electronic copy and doing it themselves. I cannot find the blog now but there's a guy out there who's making huge bucks on books the paper publishers REJECTED and laughing his way to the bank using Amazon. The faster the old school paper guys go under the happier I will be, we need less greed in the world.
Let me correct you on this - Amazon does NOT want to do this. In fact you will note that almost all of their book prices specifically state that they were set by the PUBLISHER and not by Amazon. Why? Because Amazon WAS selling books at pretty reasonable prices aka under $9.99 for even new best sellers and then Apple released the iPad and gave the publishers the ability to set pricing - which they then demanded from Amazon. Amazon tried to fight this but in the end knuckled under and we have the Agency Pricing Model that we have now - and we have Amazon acting as a publisher for many smart writers. Amazon doesn't like this but they have no choice, in fact someone is suing Apple and the publishers for this now.
End result? I no longer buy many books and I think this industry will be learning a very hard lesson just as the music industry did. In fact it will be WAY worse since books are WAY smaller (say 4megs with multiple formats) and because books aren't read over and over quite like music is. A real shame too since I and many I know were buying books more and more frequently prior to this truly stupid move by the publishing industry.
P.S. MacMillen was one of the big publishers leading the charge and on their blog, I shit you not, they actually tried to defend their pricing by stating how expensive PRINTING presses were! The mind boggles - these dinosaurs aren't long for this world...
Nope, in America where the problem is at least as bad. Oh, think of the children! Here everyone is "tough on crime" and tries to outdo one another to prove it. The result is an utter mess....
While the Govt might offer the space for the employee to sit on-site this doesn't account for the overhead of that employee's payroll, insurance, travel, training, management, new business capture, contracts, IT, and other things. Contractors have two rates - on-site and off-site, guess which is significantly lower. duh!
More and more companies drop employees as soon as a contract ends if work isn't found within about a week - even some of the ones listed at the tippy top of that list. Margins are now razor thin to say the least.
You've missed his point. What the contractor bills the Govt. has overhead for all of those things built into it and is nowhere near what the employee gets to keep. Further, that overhead must also pay for all of the support functions like IT, travel, payroll, education costs, and facilities to house support staff. Whenever someone talks about how expensive a contractor is they fail to take this into account....
And WHY pray tell is that? Been doing it for well over 5 years and have gone through more than one USB stick without issue - my current stick is 2 years old. Boot takes about 2 minutes and only ever occurs when I upgrade software or a drive. The USB stick isn't written to during that time and only stores the OS to boot to RAM disk and a single config file. The image on the stick is standard from my vendor and the only thing unique I need backup anywhere is the config file - it's maybe 10K or I can print out one config page to reenter as needed. USB memory sticks are perfect for this, last a good long time, and are CHEAP.
Seriously, booting from a drive of spinning media of any sort would be silly. The ONLY thing booting from a larger drive would allow me to do is some of the hacks that guys have done to install a full OS in order to expand the NAS into a full Linux server with desktop - I'm not interested in that. And what does the Celeron\single core have to do with my boot device exactly?
I've nwo met two different people who have had Drobo fail on them. One was a port that went up in smoke - literally - and the other just had performance nosedive for no obvious reason. Both moved to unRAID and the guy who had the bad performance found no issues with his drives. Drobo has some nice features but at the end of the day I'm happy using something I built so that if I need to replace or repair it's easy - and drive expansion is as easy as slapping a drive on another port and adding it. I just haven't seen anything prebuilt that looks worth it honestly - not for home or SOHO anyway.
Look at unRAID. One drive supports the parity and the FS is standard ReiserFS. Lose a disk and a rebuild is no problem. Lose TWO disks, and be completely unable to recover with standard tools, and you lose.... two disks of data NOT the entire damned thing. In 5++ years of using this system and having gone through multiple drive failures I've never once lost data. Never once had two disks die at once either and my systems run 24X7X365. I had one machine up to over 11 disks once but with larger disks have brought it's spindle count down. One of my machines now has 10 disks, no issues. Some of the drives in it are smaller so as they fill I swap in larger drives - seamlessly. When I moved from IDE drives to SATA I swapped the hardware without issues. I don't have some of the advantages of ZFS I know but I also do NOT have the headaches and can swap drives easily - video isn't likely to have much duplication anyway. I may not have quite the speed of some of the crazy RAID schemes but when you're streaming HD video you don't have to have balls to the wall speed, it's simply not required. Hell one of my systems only wants to synch at 100meg instead of GigE and it streams 1080P BD quality video with no issues so speed is certainly not an issue for me. Build something complex with tons of RAM, weird parity spanning, and all the rest - I'll stick with something simple that spins down my idle drives to save power and doesn't eat me alive trying to support ubber redundant and unnecessary parity schemes...
Software RAID does NOT require anything resembling a high end CPU. The LOWEST end Intel CPU undervolted and underclocked could do it. Boot the OS from a USB stick into a RAM disk. You will NOT need more than a gig of RAM if you do it right. Do NOT use hardware RAID, when it pukes and you try to replace the hardware you'll have all sorts of "fun".
You have actually DONE this right not just reading about it and postulating?
unRAID. Boot from USB, uses a standard albeit not common FS (ReiserFS), only loses one disk to parity, and losing multiple disks doesn't kill the entire storage array. Can host a max of something like 16 disks although I've never gone past 11 on either of my systems. No OS maintenance although if you add on lots of stuff you can get into murky territory. Needs no more than maybe a gig of memory and a SLOW CPU. CPU will NOT be your bottleneck and Celeron or single core whatevers work just fine. A case that can hold 8 disks or more isn't hard to find BTW especially if you use 5n3 racks which will then also allow for easier wiring of power, better cooling, and easier accessibility to swap drives. Racks liek that cost all of about $99 each and my cases have room for 3 of them plus more room inside the case for additional drives. What's really nice is I can upgrade drives piecemeal or add drives any time I want when I need space. Been using this system for 5++ years with no issues - it's an appliance to me.
Seriously, buying anything consumer oriented or SOHO that's "prebuilt" is just asking for a kick in the nuts IMO. I have had multiple friends convert to unRAID after their buy of the week Drobo killed a port, overheated, or just plain bricked.
I use drive bays in my unRAID. While not hot swappable there's no cable tracing to be done and it's WAAAAY cheaper than the crap these companies sell as "NAS".
This! I seldom stream but liked to have it available for those rare times I decided to use it. Now it costs more AND it's from a separate company? I'll be dropping the streaming ASAP, it never had the new movies I wanted anyway....
Good point - except in this case where the certs weren't supposed to have been created. You're right though, they shouldn't have needed to be able to check them that way. The report does seem to indicate they changed the behavior to catch bad certs though so it sounds as if there were at least some mechanism to look up good certs in the revocation database.
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Apparently that's horseshit. The publishers make the authors do most of the promotion, price badly, and overcharge. Authors who are doing it themselves have found this all out and many of them won't work with big publishing any more as a result.
Read this blog some -> http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/ Do especially read his much older postings where he was just realizing how full of crap the publishers are and how he has learned to outsource, at HUGE discount, the many functions big publishing charges so much for...
You can also get a laugh from this blog -> http://blog.macmillanspeaks.com/
Maybe so but surprise it really is the case with these guys that they wish to prop up a failing model by crushing a new one. Now where have I seen that before....
Actually Macmillan gave them a choice - they could continue with their existing deal but would find large swaths of their books no longer available to Amazon. They said as much -> http://blog.macmillanspeaks.com/a-message-from-macmillan-ceo-john-sargent/
Their blog is fascinating as it truly shows just how far their head is up their ass IMO.
Amazon ALLOWED?! Wow, way to rewrite history there. Amazon actually went so far as to pull Macmillan books from their store in protest but knuckled under the pressure. Their middle finger at the publishers has been to make sure anyone purchasing from them sees that the price is set by the publisher and NOT by Amazon.
Read this -> http://blog.macmillanspeaks.com/a-message-from-macmillan-ceo-john-sargent/
Amazon did NOT go quietly on this and went so far as to pull quite a few books from their digital shelves trying to NOT be forced into this but the leverage the publishers held was simply too great. This lawsuit is what should have happened all over the place right then and there, that it's only happening now years later and in the EU is a shame. Why is it that lately the EU seems to be the only place where common sense appears to be spoken?
Funny you should mention that! Macmillan has pretty much admitted this is the case - read para 4 of this link from their blog -> http://blog.macmillanspeaks.com/answers-to-some-questions-from-the-comments/#more-60
Gee, they still have to pay for printing presses and the overhead of having them so we pay more for digital copies.....
Have you not ever noticed the blurb next to the Amazon price that notes the price is set by the PUBLISHER and not Amazon? Amazon is no longer able to set their own prices, fought this, and lost the fight right after the iPad came out. The result being that blurb to let their customers know who's fucking them - apparently you've not been paying attention....
Well except they want DRM and that's where the platforms all differ. I use Kindle and Caliber, I may buy a Nook soon but it won't ever see a DRM book. I stopped buying from Amazon when their prices shot through the roof as publishers began dictating prices. What I used to find for $9 and often less is now much more and often more expensive than hard copy. That's crap and I welcome this suit as well as the efforts of Amazon to eat the publisher's lunch by publishing themselves. They have to if they want to survive, the publishers want them gone...
With all of these requests and demand you would think someone would sit down and figure out a good set of hardware for this and build specifically for it - completely open and supported! I too have a WRT54G that needs replacing and spotted a cheap dual radio Linksys on BlackFirday sale for $70 that I ordered when I noted the comments stated it worked well with OpenWRT. That will be an interim solution at best.
Honestly I'd even build an Atom PC or something like it to best support this if I could find a distro that worked and hardware that made sense. So far no go....
15-16Gigs?! Umm, you sure about that? No book I've got has ever toped more than about 8MEGS even when I'm storing multiple formats. 15Gigs is a mind boggling number....
Yeah, I wonder how that's working out in the long run? I suspect they are going to be learning a very hard lesson if they don't make some changes, it will be interesting that's for sure!
Yup, thank you! That guy has been publishing all sorts of good information but I can never remember his name and I don't read his type of books. Really like what he's doing!
Not only that bust as many authors are finding out ebooks don't have limited shelf life. In the paper world a book is only on the shelf and then in print for shipping for a limited time. An ebook on the other hand need never leave the shelf - it's ALWAYS available for sale. Many authors are waking up to this and telling their old publishers to take a hike when they come calling asking for rights to the electronic copy and doing it themselves. I cannot find the blog now but there's a guy out there who's making huge bucks on books the paper publishers REJECTED and laughing his way to the bank using Amazon. The faster the old school paper guys go under the happier I will be, we need less greed in the world.
Let me correct you on this - Amazon does NOT want to do this. In fact you will note that almost all of their book prices specifically state that they were set by the PUBLISHER and not by Amazon. Why? Because Amazon WAS selling books at pretty reasonable prices aka under $9.99 for even new best sellers and then Apple released the iPad and gave the publishers the ability to set pricing - which they then demanded from Amazon. Amazon tried to fight this but in the end knuckled under and we have the Agency Pricing Model that we have now - and we have Amazon acting as a publisher for many smart writers. Amazon doesn't like this but they have no choice, in fact someone is suing Apple and the publishers for this now.
End result? I no longer buy many books and I think this industry will be learning a very hard lesson just as the music industry did. In fact it will be WAY worse since books are WAY smaller (say 4megs with multiple formats) and because books aren't read over and over quite like music is. A real shame too since I and many I know were buying books more and more frequently prior to this truly stupid move by the publishing industry.
P.S. MacMillen was one of the big publishers leading the charge and on their blog, I shit you not, they actually tried to defend their pricing by stating how expensive PRINTING presses were! The mind boggles - these dinosaurs aren't long for this world...
Nope, in America where the problem is at least as bad. Oh, think of the children! Here everyone is "tough on crime" and tries to outdo one another to prove it. The result is an utter mess....
While the Govt might offer the space for the employee to sit on-site this doesn't account for the overhead of that employee's payroll, insurance, travel, training, management, new business capture, contracts, IT, and other things. Contractors have two rates - on-site and off-site, guess which is significantly lower. duh!
More and more companies drop employees as soon as a contract ends if work isn't found within about a week - even some of the ones listed at the tippy top of that list. Margins are now razor thin to say the least.
You've missed his point. What the contractor bills the Govt. has overhead for all of those things built into it and is nowhere near what the employee gets to keep. Further, that overhead must also pay for all of the support functions like IT, travel, payroll, education costs, and facilities to house support staff. Whenever someone talks about how expensive a contractor is they fail to take this into account....
And WHY pray tell is that? Been doing it for well over 5 years and have gone through more than one USB stick without issue - my current stick is 2 years old. Boot takes about 2 minutes and only ever occurs when I upgrade software or a drive. The USB stick isn't written to during that time and only stores the OS to boot to RAM disk and a single config file. The image on the stick is standard from my vendor and the only thing unique I need backup anywhere is the config file - it's maybe 10K or I can print out one config page to reenter as needed. USB memory sticks are perfect for this, last a good long time, and are CHEAP.
Seriously, booting from a drive of spinning media of any sort would be silly. The ONLY thing booting from a larger drive would allow me to do is some of the hacks that guys have done to install a full OS in order to expand the NAS into a full Linux server with desktop - I'm not interested in that. And what does the Celeron\single core have to do with my boot device exactly?
I've nwo met two different people who have had Drobo fail on them. One was a port that went up in smoke - literally - and the other just had performance nosedive for no obvious reason. Both moved to unRAID and the guy who had the bad performance found no issues with his drives. Drobo has some nice features but at the end of the day I'm happy using something I built so that if I need to replace or repair it's easy - and drive expansion is as easy as slapping a drive on another port and adding it. I just haven't seen anything prebuilt that looks worth it honestly - not for home or SOHO anyway.
Look at unRAID. One drive supports the parity and the FS is standard ReiserFS. Lose a disk and a rebuild is no problem. Lose TWO disks, and be completely unable to recover with standard tools, and you lose.... two disks of data NOT the entire damned thing. In 5++ years of using this system and having gone through multiple drive failures I've never once lost data. Never once had two disks die at once either and my systems run 24X7X365. I had one machine up to over 11 disks once but with larger disks have brought it's spindle count down. One of my machines now has 10 disks, no issues. Some of the drives in it are smaller so as they fill I swap in larger drives - seamlessly. When I moved from IDE drives to SATA I swapped the hardware without issues. I don't have some of the advantages of ZFS I know but I also do NOT have the headaches and can swap drives easily - video isn't likely to have much duplication anyway. I may not have quite the speed of some of the crazy RAID schemes but when you're streaming HD video you don't have to have balls to the wall speed, it's simply not required. Hell one of my systems only wants to synch at 100meg instead of GigE and it streams 1080P BD quality video with no issues so speed is certainly not an issue for me. Build something complex with tons of RAM, weird parity spanning, and all the rest - I'll stick with something simple that spins down my idle drives to save power and doesn't eat me alive trying to support ubber redundant and unnecessary parity schemes...
Software RAID does NOT require anything resembling a high end CPU. The LOWEST end Intel CPU undervolted and underclocked could do it. Boot the OS from a USB stick into a RAM disk. You will NOT need more than a gig of RAM if you do it right. Do NOT use hardware RAID, when it pukes and you try to replace the hardware you'll have all sorts of "fun".
You have actually DONE this right not just reading about it and postulating?
unRAID. Boot from USB, uses a standard albeit not common FS (ReiserFS), only loses one disk to parity, and losing multiple disks doesn't kill the entire storage array. Can host a max of something like 16 disks although I've never gone past 11 on either of my systems. No OS maintenance although if you add on lots of stuff you can get into murky territory. Needs no more than maybe a gig of memory and a SLOW CPU. CPU will NOT be your bottleneck and Celeron or single core whatevers work just fine. A case that can hold 8 disks or more isn't hard to find BTW especially if you use 5n3 racks which will then also allow for easier wiring of power, better cooling, and easier accessibility to swap drives. Racks liek that cost all of about $99 each and my cases have room for 3 of them plus more room inside the case for additional drives. What's really nice is I can upgrade drives piecemeal or add drives any time I want when I need space. Been using this system for 5++ years with no issues - it's an appliance to me.
Seriously, buying anything consumer oriented or SOHO that's "prebuilt" is just asking for a kick in the nuts IMO. I have had multiple friends convert to unRAID after their buy of the week Drobo killed a port, overheated, or just plain bricked.
I use drive bays in my unRAID. While not hot swappable there's no cable tracing to be done and it's WAAAAY cheaper than the crap these companies sell as "NAS".
This! I seldom stream but liked to have it available for those rare times I decided to use it. Now it costs more AND it's from a separate company? I'll be dropping the streaming ASAP, it never had the new movies I wanted anyway....
Good point - except in this case where the certs weren't supposed to have been created. You're right though, they shouldn't have needed to be able to check them that way. The report does seem to indicate they changed the behavior to catch bad certs though so it sounds as if there were at least some mechanism to look up good certs in the revocation database.