Does OS X have a monopoly in the Mac Operating System market?
I'll let you get the final word in though... the point of the article really has little to do with Ticketmaster. What the article states is that the ARTISTS and the VENUES want more of the profit for ticket sales, the profits that are being picked up in the aftermarket right now. Ticketmaster is just faciliting what it's customers (the artists and the venues... not the person who buys the ticket) want.
I have no problem with people selling tickets on e-Bay. If you can... do it. But if I'm the guy who issues the tickets for my show or venue... then it makes sense that I'd want to get more of the cut. I'm the one who put on the show or I'm the one who owns the venue and brought the artist to my venue so it makes sense that I'd want to get as much of the profits as I can, instead of giving them to people who buy tickets only to resell them later. I'm not talking about government intervention, or accusing the scalpers/resellers of evil behavior (which people love to accuse TicketMaster of) all I'm saying is the original seller has the right to sell the tickets any way they choose and if they choose to use an auction then so be it.
Apparently you've never read about substitution. Try reading Ayn Rand or some other book instead of getting your economics from/. and your dirty-hippie friends.
I can think of a few reasons:
* They don't realize they're there (either in components or sabotage)
* The company is really a front/puppet of the NSA
* Blackmail or extortion
Yes, TM is very popular and does have contracts in place with many venues. But the market for entertainment is the real market here, not the market for tickets. You can narrowly define any market (or misinterpret a channel for a market) and start to scream about monopoly powers and the like... but in reality if the tickets are too expensive people just don't go. They find something else to entertain themselves. Also, TM is implementing this but it's really the artists and the venues who want to see these profits. They're tired of making $50 on a ticket that sells on e-Bay for $1000.
Yes, this is the free market. The market for entertainment is free and open to competition. You can go to the movies, go to see a play (which may or may not use Ticketmaster), buy from a scalper on site (which is not always illegal), buy from a legal ticket reseller, rent a DVD, etc. Ticketmaster's solution will help to eliminate scalping because today's scalpers buy huge blocks of prime tickets and then jack up the price two or three times to recover their costs and make their profit. Putting the tickets up for auction will actually drive the price up closer to what the market can actually bear and so if scalper buys at that price their profit margin is reduced and they're paying more for the tickets so their risk is greater. This actually could seriously upset the scalping model. Of course the venue/artists is going to get paid. Ticketmaster will get their fees and if they get a % of sales they'll of course benefit from that too.
Verizon Guy: Can you hear me now? NSA analyst: No*
* Which in NSA speak means, yes... most definitely. We've got a satellites, crypto breaking computers you've never even dreamed of, listening devices, and backdoors in the hardware. The hardest thing for us NSA analysts to do is to decide which source we want to listen from. Of course we're not going to tell YOU any of this. So No, can't hear you... keep on talkin'.
The Cornroe will likely be released in late 2007, followed by the Beehive in early 2008, and the Mullet in late 2008. The Afro, the Bob, are secheduled for sometime in 2009 and are set to be the last chips in this architecture line. In 2010 Intel will release its next-gen processing technology codenamed, The Flock of Seagulls.
b/c if they left the source open you'd begin to see all of the hooks they were building into the kernel... hooks that will eventually be used to allow the Windows Vista kernel to be dropped into place.
I don't think the features that XMLHTTPRequest provides will blow over... Flickr, Google Mpas, and many other VERY popular websites that have been unfortunately branded "Web 2.0" sites are what people want. They want dyanmic content quickly without refreshing their screens.. I do wish MS would allow for instantiation of the XMLHTTPRequest object w/o requiring ActiveX support.
Yeah, lets bring back the good ole' days when Linx, Internet, world wide web, or microcomputer were the buzzwords of the day.
You people are look old farts complaining about the kids and their music today. Sure there are buzzwords and there is hype, but there always is, so just deal with it.
Just because the AJAX code is not hand coded doesn't mean Google is moving in a new direction. In fact they're moving forward more agressively in the same direction, and are just releasing tools to help everyone go the same way (especially the Google way).
This concept, of specializiation of tools, is championed on the UNIX command line and if it can be used efficiently is should be championed for web-development. Why not have a bunch of specialized services that you can quickly combine in any way you like instead of having a single monolithic web service?
Do you mean in WMP or any mainstream portable media players, or media devices or anything that doesn't cater to the specifc group of Ogg lovers out there (and in reality I think they're probably actually catering to the high fidelity Flac lovers out there)
And for you and the other grandmothers out there that only have Barry Manalow's greatest hits on your computers you don't need anything else. But for the rest of us that have 100+ GBs of music I need a sophisticated interface, and I want a skinable interface that will allow me use tiny semitransparent skins to keep my music player out of the way while I work.
I didn't even know WMP ran on your Windows 3.1 box...
All Mplayer does is play music/videos. It doesn't manage music collections... so MPlayer is going to have to add a lot of features to even begin to compete with iTunes or WMP in the music distribution business.
WinAmp can't manage a large media library worth a shit. WMP11 can.
You can easily turn of the "update license" crap in the options menu. I have plenty of non DRMed (b/c I ripped it from my CDs) music and don't have any problems w/ licenses.
I don't think there is one other free media player out there for Windows that can stack up to WMP, and if WMP11 can deliver on fast/instantaneous search across huge (100+ GB) music libraries then it's the best hands down from my perspective.
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Does OS X have a monopoly in the Mac Operating System market?
I'll let you get the final word in though... the point of the article really has little to do with Ticketmaster. What the article states is that the ARTISTS and the VENUES want more of the profit for ticket sales, the profits that are being picked up in the aftermarket right now. Ticketmaster is just faciliting what it's customers (the artists and the venues... not the person who buys the ticket) want.
I have no problem with people selling tickets on e-Bay. If you can... do it. But if I'm the guy who issues the tickets for my show or venue... then it makes sense that I'd want to get more of the cut. I'm the one who put on the show or I'm the one who owns the venue and brought the artist to my venue so it makes sense that I'd want to get as much of the profits as I can, instead of giving them to people who buy tickets only to resell them later. I'm not talking about government intervention, or accusing the scalpers/resellers of evil behavior (which people love to accuse TicketMaster of) all I'm saying is the original seller has the right to sell the tickets any way they choose and if they choose to use an auction then so be it.
Apparently you've never read about substitution. Try reading Ayn Rand or some other book instead of getting your economics from /. and your dirty-hippie friends.
I did read the entire post. Read my response.
I can think of a few reasons:
* They don't realize they're there (either in components or sabotage)
* The company is really a front/puppet of the NSA
* Blackmail or extortion
Yes, TM is very popular and does have contracts in place with many venues. But the market for entertainment is the real market here, not the market for tickets. You can narrowly define any market (or misinterpret a channel for a market) and start to scream about monopoly powers and the like... but in reality if the tickets are too expensive people just don't go. They find something else to entertain themselves. Also, TM is implementing this but it's really the artists and the venues who want to see these profits. They're tired of making $50 on a ticket that sells on e-Bay for $1000.
Yes, this is the free market. The market for entertainment is free and open to competition. You can go to the movies, go to see a play (which may or may not use Ticketmaster), buy from a scalper on site (which is not always illegal), buy from a legal ticket reseller, rent a DVD, etc. Ticketmaster's solution will help to eliminate scalping because today's scalpers buy huge blocks of prime tickets and then jack up the price two or three times to recover their costs and make their profit. Putting the tickets up for auction will actually drive the price up closer to what the market can actually bear and so if scalper buys at that price their profit margin is reduced and they're paying more for the tickets so their risk is greater. This actually could seriously upset the scalping model. Of course the venue/artists is going to get paid. Ticketmaster will get their fees and if they get a % of sales they'll of course benefit from that too.
RTFA, this isn't a bad thing.
Verizon Guy: Can you hear me now?
NSA analyst: No*
* Which in NSA speak means, yes... most definitely. We've got a satellites, crypto breaking computers you've never even dreamed of, listening devices, and backdoors in the hardware. The hardest thing for us NSA analysts to do is to decide which source we want to listen from. Of course we're not going to tell YOU any of this. So No, can't hear you... keep on talkin'.
The Cornroe will likely be released in late 2007, followed by the Beehive in early 2008, and the Mullet in late 2008. The Afro, the Bob, are secheduled for sometime in 2009 and are set to be the last chips in this architecture line. In 2010 Intel will release its next-gen processing technology codenamed, The Flock of Seagulls.
b/c if they left the source open you'd begin to see all of the hooks they were building into the kernel... hooks that will eventually be used to allow the Windows Vista kernel to be dropped into place.
Shareholders love losing millions of dollars in potential profits to pirating so they can say their just as open as Linux.
I don't think the features that XMLHTTPRequest provides will blow over... Flickr, Google Mpas, and many other VERY popular websites that have been unfortunately branded "Web 2.0" sites are what people want. They want dyanmic content quickly without refreshing their screens.. I do wish MS would allow for instantiation of the XMLHTTPRequest object w/o requiring ActiveX support.
Yeah, lets bring back the good ole' days when Linx, Internet, world wide web, or microcomputer were the buzzwords of the day.
You people are look old farts complaining about the kids and their music today. Sure there are buzzwords and there is hype, but there always is, so just deal with it.
Just because the AJAX code is not hand coded doesn't mean Google is moving in a new direction. In fact they're moving forward more agressively in the same direction, and are just releasing tools to help everyone go the same way (especially the Google way).
This concept, of specializiation of tools, is championed on the UNIX command line and if it can be used efficiently is should be championed for web-development. Why not have a bunch of specialized services that you can quickly combine in any way you like instead of having a single monolithic web service?
Well I think I've made an ass of my self.
Do you mean in WMP or any mainstream portable media players, or media devices or anything that doesn't cater to the specifc group of Ogg lovers out there (and in reality I think they're probably actually catering to the high fidelity Flac lovers out there)
huh huh huh... that's a funny there chuckles. Fucking idiot.
No, the old one is doing that just fine.
Sounds like M$ made Apple its bitch.
Could you elaborate on that a bit more... or do you just want to leave this fanboi comment to stand by itself?
And for you and the other grandmothers out there that only have Barry Manalow's greatest hits on your computers you don't need anything else. But for the rest of us that have 100+ GBs of music I need a sophisticated interface, and I want a skinable interface that will allow me use tiny semitransparent skins to keep my music player out of the way while I work.
I didn't even know WMP ran on your Windows 3.1 box...
All Mplayer does is play music/videos. It doesn't manage music collections... so MPlayer is going to have to add a lot of features to even begin to compete with iTunes or WMP in the music distribution business.
Read the news.com article listed in the other posts. Instantaneous search across huge music archives is a MAJOR improvement.
WinAmp can't manage a large media library worth a shit. WMP11 can.
You can easily turn of the "update license" crap in the options menu. I have plenty of non DRMed (b/c I ripped it from my CDs) music and don't have any problems w/ licenses.
I don't think there is one other free media player out there for Windows that can stack up to WMP, and if WMP11 can deliver on fast/instantaneous search across huge (100+ GB) music libraries then it's the best hands down from my perspective.