I have to ask what "fixing it" means. Because if it means making less money, then artists don't have a good financial incentive to sign on with Google's label and that would very quickly lead to the collapse of Google's music label.
Well, knowing Google, it means a low-profit-per-transaction but high volume business. Instead of making 4 cents on a song at iTunes, they make 0.5 cents per song impression at Google. But they sell a thousand times as many song impressions as they did iTunes songs.
That must be why google bought Alta Vista, and then leveraged that to buy yahoo and dog pile.
Exactly. Google has all the company skills and talent necessary to build a Google Tools for Musicians service, where artists could upload their music, their videos, their merchandise, have it promoted, distributed, sold, etc., all online. Heck, they could mandate a 14-year public domain license if they wanted to (seeing as all the trouble Copyright has caused Google over the years).
Since it doesn't already exist we can assume that Google has already decided it's not interested in doing it, or it's determined that the model is infeasible. Or... OK, let's give them a little more time now that Larry & Sergi are in charge again.
If there were only one company that artists, sound engineers, et al, could go to for employment, that would be a seriously fucked up situation.
Not really, it could be a music nirvana. I'm sure you could imagine a benevolent and profitable music powerhouse. Abusive monopolies are bad. But abusive monopolies can only exist with the support of governments, so it's not really the abusers who are the root problem.
Lacking government intervention, if a monopoly starts misbehaving, with prices or services, that opens the door for competitors to step in and provide alternatives.
So you want to start a credit union. Incidentally, it can never be said enough: do your business with credit unions, not banks.
I hear this a lot, but I don't get why. Could you explain?
I have a choice here of four local banks and three local credit unions. The local banks have better loan and deposit rates, better customer service, and give back more to the community. The credit unions have the seeming advantage that their BoD are elected by the membership, but don't seem to offer any real benefits to the members.
There are also three large multinational banks in the area, but those aren't even in my realm of consideration.
I pay for two meg up with Comcast, and use part of that. I've got a tor relay set for one meg and seed some open source torrents at half a meg during the day, two meg at night. Total aggregate use rarely exceeds two meg up on my mrtg graphs. These are uses compatible with my business mission and aren't going to generate any 3rd party complaints.
Now, even thought I pay for two meg up, I get about four meg up. I could push it, but that would violate my "don't be stupid, don't be greedy" rule. I assume most people who run into trouble with their providers are being stupid and/or greedy. Yeah, yeah, "you advertised that I had a right to be greedy." Since when do we listen to anything marketing people have to say?
Comcast's Internet behavior has improved quite a bit over the last decade. I think they understand that they're now an Internet company that also provides video services to their residential customers. The business side is what Internet costs, the residential side is likely subsidized by the video revenues, and each appears to be run accordingly.
They're providing many of my clients with a stable 50/10 for less than the ILEC will charge for a T1 - I've got little room for complaints.
Particularly obnoxious here is the stench of utter corruption and duplicity when it comes to US government and gambling: you see gambling is eeeevil..... unless its the US or State governments who run the casinos, or their anointed cronies, in which case its just an innocent, family past-time...
Which is the point entirely. Those gaming entities that do pay their protection money to the government were facing stiff competition from the online sites. So the government did what it promised, it smashed up the competition.
Oh, wait, no, it's not a protection racket, it's regulation. Riiiight.
Just a guess, but maybe he got sick and tired of being asked the same dumb question 50 million times?
Not saying it was the right way to handle it, but I can certainly understand his frustration.
Do you get paid CEO $$$ to do CEO things? It's like a customer service rep bitching out a customer. Sorry, no, their job is to be happy and polite, not just answer the phone.
Similarly, the CEO needs to protect his brand's image. He's done the opposite here.
When I hear "steep learning curve" as it is used colloquially, I think of effort on Y and mastery on X, just like economics graphs put price on Y and quantity on X.
Certainly that's how it's used, but we should always try to put the predictable on X and the variable on Y, when one or the other is predictable.
But, yeah, steep hills are harder to climb, I get it.
but it can do plenty once you figure out how it all works
True, true, and true.
I taught myself both Photoshop (c. 1991-2002) and GIMP (2002-2011), so I'm not particularly great at either. I still find GIMP much harder to control than Photoshop was (click efficiency, etc.). I dunno, maybe Photoshop has gotten worse in the past decade - it got too expensive for my needs.
I really wish GIMP would just get a release out with the improved interface, and then go back and add more features. They've been teasing us for almost four years.
First I heard about DeltaCloud... guess I'm out of it? OpenStack has been well-publicized.
Has anybody here deployed one or the other? It seems likely that libvirt should eventually treat them all agnostically.
The dream is to be able to move stuff in-house and out as needs change without worrying about deployment location or type too much beyond capabilities and cost.
Actually, this is not just the article singling out time travel. According to The New York Times, the original government report does single out TV dramas that involve characters traveling back in time.
Maybe they just want to keep the lazy Trek writers out of the country.
Seriously, though, coincidentally, I introduced my daughter to Back to the Future last night. She liked thinking about the time paradoxes as much as the film itself. To limit avenues of fictional exploration is to dumb down your society.
Steel studs shouldn't be a problem, the space between studs should be more than wide enough to allow most 2.4 GHz signals through.
Should be, but for some reason the (grounded) studs act as a semi-Faraday cage for WiFi. Perhaps in NLOS applications there's almost always some steel between the radios. I don't claim to have a Tesla-like understanding of radio, but empirically it's a problem.
I'm just finishing building a new student residence and we specified wood framing, partly for this reason. Internal WiFi is great (open-mesh.com), though cell signal eats it in places due to the brick exterior. At least the roof isn't metal.
Yeah, but there are researchers out there with the tech who have tried it and came up empty. There are papers on it.
Of course they could be spreading misinformation, but re-allocated sectors will screw you in the end anyway, so I suppose the point is rather academic. I tried to get Seagate to tell me which of their drives supported secure wipe (vs. just eating the commands and/or not wiping re-allocated sectors) and they flatly refused. I wanted to build a decent/secure wipe utility. So my assumption then is that none of the products actually do what they say.
Me, I'd like fast cars, a big house, and loose women. I mean, those are all things that make me happy and happieness is a basic human right, right?
How about we approach this from a negative reciprocity perspective? When we talk about rights in a violence-based government system, we're talking about things the government may not do to you.
So, how about we decide that the government may not aid in hampering our access to the Internet? It may not create monopoly grants that starve out the small market competitors for its rent-seeking friends, it may not pass laws that restrict content or operations, it may not regulate actions that are conveyed by the Internet?
The Internet is just a conveyance of information, and conveying information is typically protected already with explicit rights grants to speech, press, etc.
Yeah, everybody who is using these drives will have copy of their data elsewhere. So the odds to weigh, for a laptop, are unrecoverable cosmic-ray-induced errors vs. a salesman losing his laptop when he gets drunk at the airport bar.
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I have to ask what "fixing it" means. Because if it means making less money, then artists don't have a good financial incentive to sign on with Google's label and that would very quickly lead to the collapse of Google's music label.
Well, knowing Google, it means a low-profit-per-transaction but high volume business. Instead of making 4 cents on a song at iTunes, they make 0.5 cents per song impression at Google. But they sell a thousand times as many song impressions as they did iTunes songs.
That must be why google bought Alta Vista, and then leveraged that to buy yahoo and dog pile.
Exactly. Google has all the company skills and talent necessary to build a Google Tools for Musicians service, where artists could upload their music, their videos, their merchandise, have it promoted, distributed, sold, etc., all online. Heck, they could mandate a 14-year public domain license if they wanted to (seeing as all the trouble Copyright has caused Google over the years).
Since it doesn't already exist we can assume that Google has already decided it's not interested in doing it, or it's determined that the model is infeasible. Or... OK, let's give them a little more time now that Larry & Sergi are in charge again.
If there were only one company that artists, sound engineers, et al, could go to for employment, that would be a seriously fucked up situation.
Not really, it could be a music nirvana. I'm sure you could imagine a benevolent and profitable music powerhouse. Abusive monopolies are bad. But abusive monopolies can only exist with the support of governments, so it's not really the abusers who are the root problem.
Lacking government intervention, if a monopoly starts misbehaving, with prices or services, that opens the door for competitors to step in and provide alternatives.
So you want to start a credit union. Incidentally, it can never be said enough: do your business with credit unions, not banks.
I hear this a lot, but I don't get why. Could you explain?
I have a choice here of four local banks and three local credit unions. The local banks have better loan and deposit rates, better customer service, and give back more to the community. The credit unions have the seeming advantage that their BoD are elected by the membership, but don't seem to offer any real benefits to the members.
There are also three large multinational banks in the area, but those aren't even in my realm of consideration.
I pay for two meg up with Comcast, and use part of that. I've got a tor relay set for one meg and seed some open source torrents at half a meg during the day, two meg at night. Total aggregate use rarely exceeds two meg up on my mrtg graphs. These are uses compatible with my business mission and aren't going to generate any 3rd party complaints.
Now, even thought I pay for two meg up, I get about four meg up. I could push it, but that would violate my "don't be stupid, don't be greedy" rule. I assume most people who run into trouble with their providers are being stupid and/or greedy. Yeah, yeah, "you advertised that I had a right to be greedy." Since when do we listen to anything marketing people have to say?
Comcast's Internet behavior has improved quite a bit over the last decade. I think they understand that they're now an Internet company that also provides video services to their residential customers. The business side is what Internet costs, the residential side is likely subsidized by the video revenues, and each appears to be run accordingly.
They're providing many of my clients with a stable 50/10 for less than the ILEC will charge for a T1 - I've got little room for complaints.
I can't quite believe that anyone who can write in full sentences can be so retarded.
No, that's a strong argument! What happened, did your world view get disrupted by logic?
Particularly obnoxious here is the stench of utter corruption and duplicity when it comes to US government and gambling: you see gambling is eeeevil ..... unless its the US or State governments who run the casinos, or their anointed cronies, in which case its just an innocent, family past-time ...
Which is the point entirely. Those gaming entities that do pay their protection money to the government were facing stiff competition from the online sites. So the government did what it promised, it smashed up the competition.
Oh, wait, no, it's not a protection racket, it's regulation. Riiiight.
At least on the religious side the debate could be settled by God.
Or he who boiled for our sins.
But think about it, there is no action anyone could take, not now and not ever, that could validate the claims made by atheists.
And they say the most hurtful things about the Pastafarians too. They can't prove that either.
Why doesn't someone with some real knowledge post the release announcement?
Because they're lazy and prefer to bitch and moan in the comments?
Yeah, I have several friends who are children of immigrants (various Asian/South Asian mostly) and they all speak perfect American English.
Just a guess, but maybe he got sick and tired of being asked the same dumb question 50 million times?
Not saying it was the right way to handle it, but I can certainly understand his frustration.
Do you get paid CEO $$$ to do CEO things? It's like a customer service rep bitching out a customer. Sorry, no, their job is to be happy and polite, not just answer the phone.
Similarly, the CEO needs to protect his brand's image. He's done the opposite here.
When I hear "steep learning curve" as it is used colloquially, I think of effort on Y and mastery on X, just like economics graphs put price on Y and quantity on X.
Certainly that's how it's used, but we should always try to put the predictable on X and the variable on Y, when one or the other is predictable.
But, yeah, steep hills are harder to climb, I get it.
People assume that just because they can't figure something out by clicking around, that the UI is bad.
One of the key properties of a good GUI is 'Discoverable'. So, yeah.
The old Macintosh User Interface Guidelines from the mid-80's are now technically obsolete, but UI designers should all have a copy for inspiration.
but it can do plenty once you figure out how it all works
True, true, and true.
I taught myself both Photoshop (c. 1991-2002) and GIMP (2002-2011), so I'm not particularly great at either. I still find GIMP much harder to control than Photoshop was (click efficiency, etc.). I dunno, maybe Photoshop has gotten worse in the past decade - it got too expensive for my needs.
I really wish GIMP would just get a release out with the improved interface, and then go back and add more features. They've been teasing us for almost four years.
It's hard to recommend this software without the need to explain it really has nothing to do with bondage.
Who do you hang out with? That's the first I've ever heard of the term.
Far more birds are killed per windmill then per cat.
Yes, but there are valid reasons to own a windmill.
First I heard about DeltaCloud ... guess I'm out of it? OpenStack has been well-publicized.
Has anybody here deployed one or the other? It seems likely that libvirt should eventually treat them all agnostically.
The dream is to be able to move stuff in-house and out as needs change without worrying about deployment location or type too much beyond capabilities and cost.
Actually, this is not just the article singling out time travel. According to The New York Times, the original government report does single out TV dramas that involve characters traveling back in time.
Maybe they just want to keep the lazy Trek writers out of the country.
Seriously, though, coincidentally, I introduced my daughter to Back to the Future last night. She liked thinking about the time paradoxes as much as the film itself. To limit avenues of fictional exploration is to dumb down your society.
Steel studs shouldn't be a problem, the space between studs should be more than wide enough to allow most 2.4 GHz signals through.
Should be, but for some reason the (grounded) studs act as a semi-Faraday cage for WiFi. Perhaps in NLOS applications there's almost always some steel between the radios. I don't claim to have a Tesla-like understanding of radio, but empirically it's a problem.
I'm just finishing building a new student residence and we specified wood framing, partly for this reason. Internal WiFi is great (open-mesh.com), though cell signal eats it in places due to the brick exterior. At least the roof isn't metal.
It's the bureaucrats who showed poor taste.
Oh, darn, (-1, Tautology).
Why bother with all this when a bluetooth (cell phone) listener with a range weapon is so much less complex?
Yeah, but there are researchers out there with the tech who have tried it and came up empty. There are papers on it.
Of course they could be spreading misinformation, but re-allocated sectors will screw you in the end anyway, so I suppose the point is rather academic. I tried to get Seagate to tell me which of their drives supported secure wipe (vs. just eating the commands and/or not wiping re-allocated sectors) and they flatly refused. I wanted to build a decent/secure wipe utility. So my assumption then is that none of the products actually do what they say.
Me, I'd like fast cars, a big house, and loose women. I mean, those are all things that make me happy and happieness is a basic human right, right?
How about we approach this from a negative reciprocity perspective? When we talk about rights in a violence-based government system, we're talking about things the government may not do to you.
So, how about we decide that the government may not aid in hampering our access to the Internet? It may not create monopoly grants that starve out the small market competitors for its rent-seeking friends, it may not pass laws that restrict content or operations, it may not regulate actions that are conveyed by the Internet?
The Internet is just a conveyance of information, and conveying information is typically protected already with explicit rights grants to speech, press, etc.
Yeah, everybody who is using these drives will have copy of their data elsewhere. So the odds to weigh, for a laptop, are unrecoverable cosmic-ray-induced errors vs. a salesman losing his laptop when he gets drunk at the airport bar.
Have you ever worked with salesmen?
I believe a zero'd drive still has a chance at being read
Don't believe, prove. The hard drive scientists say it can't be done. The data recovery people say it hasn't been possible for 15 years.
But, it would only take one successful demonstration to prove them wrong.