If you release music as an audio file you can include meta data giving the URL of a Website from where you can make payment for the track.
Video can include a still frame at the start giving a URL from where a license payment can be made.
Those without Internet access could make payment via telephone or even in traditional stores.
If I was the music industry I'd be saying to myself,
"Right, can't beat 'em - exploit 'em."
By unleashing the distribution innovators of any kind of licensing or copyright problem could distribute their material further a field that they could ever dream about - and if only a small percentage actually go the appropriate payment website and make payment it could still be a huge amount compared to today's sales.
What would be the problems with this kind of set-up? Would the labels just disregard this idea outright without a second thought?
Whenever a "quantum leap" in communications technology takes place, economies suffer until the market learns to adapt to this new communications technology and the speed with which information can now be disseminated.
It happened with the advent of the Railroad, and it happened again with the advent of the Internet.
The problem is the time between news breaking and a market reaction. Thanks to the Internet, it is now incredibly small, and in many cases negative, and that creates difficult conditions for companies to work in.
This will be the case until market forces figure out how to operate a stable economy under these new conditions. This will happen "naturally", it won't require any one person or body to anything in particular.
...with the recruitment policy of our local hardware superstore.
B&Q is a large DIY chain in the UK. They might be in the US, I don't know. They have a policy of only employing people over 95 years of age.
So you get to the checkout with your self install kitchen. A little old 97 year old lady has now got to try and:
a) locate the barcode on each item of your self-install kitchen, containing many items that are several orders of magnitude BIGGER THAN SHE IS.
b) having located the barcode, get her scanner to it.
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How hard would this be to do?
Flying a model (or real helicopter) for that matter require continuous delicate feedback - far more than flying a fixed wing aircraft.
Do modern real heli's have auto-pilot? I'm sure they do; but how hard would it be to incorporate the necessary sensors into the model of this size and have controlled by computer?
BROKEN LINK - See here for Snelflight Hoverfly
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Tethered, but still great fun...
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I recently bought one of these - it's a tethered indoor model heli - and some of the best fun you can have with your clothes on. It comes with a computer based sim so you can plug the actual controller into your PC and try and minimise damage to your living room.
Around £200 in the UK. I now have to redecorate as a result of buying mine.
As the owner of several domain names I am now facing the problem from 2 angles -
That of me receiving SPAM to my personal email account(s), _AND_ that of my domain names being used in the from/reply-to addresses of SPAM email.
The latter I actually find more frustrating. What makes it worse is my domain name is being used in HTML emails - your average [l]user has no idea that it is HTML, and in the message body sees only "EXTEND YOUR PENIS NATURALLY CLICK HERE" in big bright purple letters. The fact that the link goes to http://www.iamascumbagspammer.com/ is not apparent - what they do see however is my domain name in the from line of their email client.
I actually think that the we would be better off if the anti-spammers stopped pursuing their cause and just let spam take out the Internet's email system.
Just had one of my domain names used in the fake from address (you know, siusd3874@mydomain.com) kind of thing, where the bit infront of the @ changes in an attempt to combat filtering.
Pain in arse - i've even had to put a page up on the website trying to explain that the SPAM is nothing to do with me.
Noticed a sharp rise in non-referred hits to the www.mydomain.com - which I can only assume is people trying it - probably to find out who spammed 'em.
This is despite the SPAM body having a URL that is obviously nothing to do with me.
I've had to put a page up saying "Look, this SPAM you've receive is nothing to do with me."
A technological solution to a problem is accused of shortcomings under the assumption that the manual solution to the problem does not have the same shortcomings.
In my opinion, anybody that presents an argument that electronic voting is particularly subject to fraud must factor in the amount of fraud that already goes on in non-electronic elections.
I love companies like Inxight, because they manage to convince my competitors to waste millions of dollars buying crap software that isn't going to help them one iota.
Technology has moved on leaps and bounds in the last century, and our brains are not really that capable of keeping up.
The vast majority of people that are managers will not have the mental capacity to process this information in the time frame with which an "executive dashboard" promises to deliver it.
And i'm not saying that in a cruel way - i'm not getting at managers or anyone, i'm saying that _we_ human beings, as a race - the vast majority of us cannot process information that quickly.
These tools are going to require the mental capacity of a "Genius" to be able to capitalise from them, and very, very few of us, particularly those in middle management positions;) are geniuses.
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I am a nerd, and I come here for stuff that matters.
This does not matter to me.
..no more Hot18F_Seoul for you then.
You know who you are.
Last I heard you couldn't even make the phone dial a number straight out of Pocket Outlook.
DUH.
Something went very wrong in the QA chain between Microsoft, the 3rd parties and the mobile telcos when they were trying to rush this out.
I honestly think this is the only way to go.
If you release music as an audio file you can include meta data giving the URL of a Website from where you can make payment for the track.
Video can include a still frame at the start giving a URL from where a license payment can be made.
Those without Internet access could make payment via telephone or even in traditional stores.
If I was the music industry I'd be saying to myself,
"Right, can't beat 'em - exploit 'em."
By unleashing the distribution innovators of any kind of licensing or copyright problem could distribute their material further a field that they could ever dream about - and if only a small percentage actually go the appropriate payment website and make payment it could still be a huge amount compared to today's sales.
What would be the problems with this kind of set-up? Would the labels just disregard this idea outright without a second thought?
my car CD-R's get damaged by sun or careless handling
Not to mention getting stolen - the car or just the CDs.
Whenever a "quantum leap" in communications technology takes place, economies suffer until the market learns to adapt to this new communications technology and the speed with which information can now be disseminated.
It happened with the advent of the Railroad, and it happened again with the advent of the Internet.
The problem is the time between news breaking and a market reaction. Thanks to the Internet, it is now incredibly small, and in many cases negative, and that creates difficult conditions for companies to work in.
This will be the case until market forces figure out how to operate a stable economy under these new conditions. This will happen "naturally", it won't require any one person or body to anything in particular.
is too much Amateur Philosophy.
...with the recruitment policy of our local hardware superstore.
:
B&Q is a large DIY chain in the UK. They might be in the US, I don't know. They have a policy of only employing people over 95 years of age.
So you get to the checkout with your self install kitchen. A little old 97 year old lady has now got to try and
a) locate the barcode on each item of your self-install kitchen, containing many items that are several orders of magnitude BIGGER THAN SHE IS.
b) having located the barcode, get her scanner to it.
How hard would this be to do?
Flying a model (or real helicopter) for that matter require continuous delicate feedback - far more than flying a fixed wing aircraft.
Do modern real heli's have auto-pilot? I'm sure they do; but how hard would it be to incorporate the necessary sensors into the model of this size and have controlled by computer?
Oooops.
Snelflight
I recently bought one of these - it's a tethered indoor model heli - and some of the best fun you can have with your clothes on. It comes with a computer based sim so you can plug the actual controller into your PC and try and minimise damage to your living room.
Around £200 in the UK. I now have to redecorate as a result of buying mine.
People that visited Mars also visited:
Pluto
Uranus
So much so that I no longer bother with referrer or user-agent logging.
I've put other methods in place to track what I want to track.
What amazed me was how slow many in the webmaster community were to catch on to it.
"Hey, has anybody heard of XXXXXXXX server monitoring company? For some reason they're hitting my website, but i've not signed up with them...."
DUH.
As the owner of several domain names I am now facing the problem from 2 angles -
That of me receiving SPAM to my personal email account(s), _AND_ that of my domain names being used in the from/reply-to addresses of SPAM email.
The latter I actually find more frustrating. What makes it worse is my domain name is being used in HTML emails - your average [l]user has no idea that it is HTML, and in the message body sees only "EXTEND YOUR PENIS NATURALLY CLICK HERE" in big bright purple letters. The fact that the link goes to http://www.iamascumbagspammer.com/ is not apparent - what they do see however is my domain name in the from line of their email client.
I actually think that the we would be better off if the anti-spammers stopped pursuing their cause and just let spam take out the Internet's email system.
Then we can start again from scratch.
Surely SMTP's time is up.
Don't forget Double-ROT13
Just need to vent a bit anger.
:(
Just had one of my domain names used in the fake from address (you know, siusd3874@mydomain.com) kind of thing, where the bit infront of the @ changes in an attempt to combat filtering.
Pain in arse - i've even had to put a page up on the website trying to explain that the SPAM is nothing to do with me.
Noticed a sharp rise in non-referred hits to the www.mydomain.com - which I can only assume is people trying it - probably to find out who spammed 'em.
This is despite the SPAM body having a URL that is obviously nothing to do with me.
I've had to put a page up saying "Look, this SPAM you've receive is nothing to do with me."
Aggghhhh
A technological solution to a problem is accused of shortcomings under the assumption that the manual solution to the problem does not have the same shortcomings.
In my opinion, anybody that presents an argument that electronic voting is particularly subject to fraud must factor in the amount of fraud that already goes on in non-electronic elections.
Or does anybody else not find this pigeon rank thing that funny?
I think it's pretty lame myself.
But whenever someone mentions or links to pigeon rank around here it gets +4/5 funny every time.
I love companies like Inxight, because they manage to convince my competitors to waste millions of dollars buying crap software that isn't going to help them one iota.
Technology has moved on leaps and bounds in the last century, and our brains are not really that capable of keeping up.
;) are geniuses.
The vast majority of people that are managers will not have the mental capacity to process this information in the time frame with which an "executive dashboard" promises to deliver it.
And i'm not saying that in a cruel way - i'm not getting at managers or anyone, i'm saying that _we_ human beings, as a race - the vast majority of us cannot process information that quickly.
These tools are going to require the mental capacity of a "Genius" to be able to capitalise from them, and very, very few of us, particularly those in middle management positions
They used to be always there for that 3.5mm jack plug in times of need.
:(
Sadly, the Tandy set-up in the UK was sold to the Carphone Warehouse who just wanted it for the store locations
It just tells you exactly where you are lost.
This is the obligatory SPAM thread plug for bayesian filtering.
If you're not already doing it, give it a go in one of its many forms.
I've been using POPFile for ages and it works a treat.
There's an HP add (big box type one) running on Slashdot at the moment.
Do you think they've set the colour scheme on purpose so that it looks like a slashbox?
Feral.
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feral ( P ) Pronunciation Key (fîrl, fr-)
adj.
Existing in a wild or untamed state.
Having returned to an untamed state from domestication.
Of or suggestive of a wild animal; savage: a feral grin.