Exactly. It isn't the bandwidth, so much -- it's just there isn't enough profit in $.05 downloads.
Just to throw some rough numbers out there. Let's say at $.05/song, Apple sells enough music that the downloads fill up a 1Gb/s pipe. That adds up to about 64,800,000 songs in a month, assuming average song size of 5MB.
At $.05 per song, the net revenue for those songs totals $3,240,000. Assuming Apple makes 34% of total revenue, those songs at $.05 a pop nets Apple $1,101,600. Figuring 1GB/s worth of bandwidth at $30/Mb will cost them about $30,000 for the same time period. The bandwidth portion is peanuts, really. Subtracting the bandwidth out of the equation leaves Apple with $1,071,600 to pay for the rest of the infrastructure (servers, switches, routers, etc.) and payroll for all the employees to manage it, building expenses, etc. etc. etc. By the time you subtract all of those costs, it looks to me like Apple would be lucky to turn a profit.
Having finally gotten control over my ever-burgeoning CD collection, I can offer a few humble suggestions:
As far as the actual jewel cases/booklets themselves there are many ways you can go, depending on your lifestyle and the size of your wallet. For a few years I was quite content to store my CD's in a combination of shoeboxes and the cheap CD racks you can find for $10 at the CD store. Which works fine up to a point, although it makes organization difficult and it isn't exactly attractive. So, unless you're living in a dorm or your parents' basement you're probably looking for something a little nicer. I recently made the purchase of one of these, which also comes in smaller sizes as well, although I found the large version nice as I can also store my cassette's and DVD's in it as well. In addition it's very attractive and doesn't look out of place in my den.
I store my CD's in alphabetical order by artist, then by album name. It takes some patience initially to get everything in order but it's a lifesaver once you're finished. I also find that using a program such as Music Collector helps keep things organized.
Finally, as far as playing the CD's goes, I like the big jukeboxes such as Sony's CDP-CX450 which holds 400 CD's and can be daisychained with another for a total capacity of 800 CD's. As with anything there are advantages and disadvantages to the jukebox system, but it works well for me. YMMV.
Let's not overreact just yet...
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Certainly this sounds like yet another worrisome development in the curtailment of freedom of speech on the Internet. However I think it's important we keep in mind this is only a recommendation at this point, not actual policy. In addition, I think it's important to consider the source of this article...Wired isn't exactly known for balanced reporting on free speech issues. (Better than/. maybe, but still;-D)
On a side note, I used to work for the ISP young Bradley here used when he lived in Cincinnati, and I remember some of the more interesting discussions he was involved in on our local newsgroups. He was just about as... uh.. passionate.. then about free software. One of our systems admins actually wrote a script to place the prefix "GNU/" before random words in his newsgroup posts... Bradley wasn't thrilled, but it was one of the funnier things I've ever seen.
Wasn't thrilled? I'd say threw a screaming hissy fit would be a more accurate statement.
Cringely desperately needs to remove his lips from Gibson's tit. The whole raw sockets thing is such a non-issue. Cringely and Gibson's hysterical ranting about raw sockets is getting incredibly tiresome... As has been stated over and over and over and over by those who actually know what they're talking about the simple solution for preventing rampant misuse of raw sockets is proper ingress and egress filtering by ISP's. Who cares if you spoof an IP if your spoofed traffic never makes it past the first router (or even layer 3 switch) it sees?
There's plenty of stuff to berate Microsoft for...let's at least try to limit it to criticisms that hold water.
I suspect that the news media can only handle pushing FUD and hysteria for one threat at a time. It is interesting to note, though, that growth of infections is again showing exponential growth, which begs the question...given all the hyperventilating even the mainstream media has done over Code Red, how can you not have patched your servers by now?!?
Yes, I can, and you can...and so can most everyone reading this discussion. But can your parents? Or your grandparents? Or your neighbor Bob? Do they even know what DNS is? Probably not. Which means they'll use whatever settings get pushed down to them from their provider and never be the wiser.
Andrew
But then who "agrees" on the existing conventions? What happens when you wind up with multiple roots serving the same TLD with different information? Unless you administer your own name servers you're at the mercy of your dns provider's choice of root servers. And with the current trend towards conglomeration in the ISP industry most users of the Internet will find that the "choices" proponents of multiple roots crow about have disappeared--do you think MSN (for instance) would carry the.microsoftsucks TLD?
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Exactly. It isn't the bandwidth, so much -- it's just there isn't enough profit in $.05 downloads.
Just to throw some rough numbers out there. Let's say at $.05/song, Apple sells enough music that the downloads fill up a 1Gb/s pipe. That adds up to about 64,800,000 songs in a month, assuming average song size of 5MB.
At $.05 per song, the net revenue for those songs totals $3,240,000. Assuming Apple makes 34% of total revenue, those songs at $.05 a pop nets Apple $1,101,600. Figuring 1GB/s worth of bandwidth at $30/Mb will cost them about $30,000 for the same time period. The bandwidth portion is peanuts, really. Subtracting the bandwidth out of the equation leaves Apple with $1,071,600 to pay for the rest of the infrastructure (servers, switches, routers, etc.) and payroll for all the employees to manage it, building expenses, etc. etc. etc. By the time you subtract all of those costs, it looks to me like Apple would be lucky to turn a profit.
Andrew
Or maybe you just want to stay off the 6 month Fedora upgrade treadmill...
As far as the actual jewel cases/booklets themselves there are many ways you can go, depending on your lifestyle and the size of your wallet. For a few years I was quite content to store my CD's in a combination of shoeboxes and the cheap CD racks you can find for $10 at the CD store. Which works fine up to a point, although it makes organization difficult and it isn't exactly attractive. So, unless you're living in a dorm or your parents' basement you're probably looking for something a little nicer. I recently made the purchase of one of these, which also comes in smaller sizes as well, although I found the large version nice as I can also store my cassette's and DVD's in it as well. In addition it's very attractive and doesn't look out of place in my den.
I store my CD's in alphabetical order by artist, then by album name. It takes some patience initially to get everything in order but it's a lifesaver once you're finished. I also find that using a program such as Music Collector helps keep things organized.
Finally, as far as playing the CD's goes, I like the big jukeboxes such as Sony's CDP-CX450 which holds 400 CD's and can be daisychained with another for a total capacity of 800 CD's. As with anything there are advantages and disadvantages to the jukebox system, but it works well for me. YMMV.
Certainly this sounds like yet another worrisome development in the curtailment of freedom of speech on the Internet. However I think it's important we keep in mind this is only a recommendation at this point, not actual policy. In addition, I think it's important to consider the source of this article...Wired isn't exactly known for balanced reporting on free speech issues. (Better than /. maybe, but still ;-D)
Andrew
Wasn't thrilled? I'd say threw a screaming hissy fit would be a more accurate statement.
Andrew
There's plenty of stuff to berate Microsoft for...let's at least try to limit it to criticisms that hold water.
Andrew
Andrew
Yes, I can, and you can...and so can most everyone reading this discussion. But can your parents? Or your grandparents? Or your neighbor Bob? Do they even know what DNS is? Probably not. Which means they'll use whatever settings get pushed down to them from their provider and never be the wiser. Andrew
But then who "agrees" on the existing conventions? What happens when you wind up with multiple roots serving the same TLD with different information? Unless you administer your own name servers you're at the mercy of your dns provider's choice of root servers. And with the current trend towards conglomeration in the ISP industry most users of the Internet will find that the "choices" proponents of multiple roots crow about have disappeared--do you think MSN (for instance) would carry the .microsoftsucks TLD?