Yeah, but the costs of not only the programmer, but then the machines, the cost of producing the first corrupt file (these appear to be manufactured) and then tag on the costs of bandwidth, besides, even if it doesn't cost that much, they could say it does. More revenue, and who's any the wiser?
Heck, if the pirates are getting half of the money of every version of windows sold, sign me up. I got a few copies to distribute, and at $200+ copy, I'll make a good amount of money on the side.
I can't wait to see the RIAA on this one. The reason I assumed a singular distribution, or at least a limmited distribution is because I assumed that like all business entities, these companies would want to save money. To provide a constant stream of these files would have a rather heavy cost associated with them. Of course, we can safely assume that this would just be reflected back to the consumers in the form of higher prices and will be justified with graphs and charts showing how the evil napster pirates are costing the industry (whoops, I mean the artists) all of their money.
P2P is in an ever evolving state. Before Napster bit the dust, doomsayers were saying it would be the end of filesharing. Whoops, they missed the mark there. It's sort of like the Hydra. Cut off one head and 2 more take it's place. And in essence that's what will happen. IF the RIAA ever managed to kill gnutella (arguably the largest system currently), a whole bunch of people would be scrambling to create new networks. The result would be 3 or 4 new and effective networks. Sure they'd be smaller, but only temporarily.
Like it or not, P2P is here to stay. It's a system with legal and illegal uses. The legal nature is what keeps the creation of a complete ban impossible, and the illegal nature is what keeps the system evolving.
There's a slight difference here between the Warez sites and these new "tactics".
With the warez sites, the ads are there because these guys can't find anyone else to host them, so they need the money for the ads. The ads are not being put up by Bungie, or Blizzard or EA or any of the other companies.
As for the p2p networks however, these files are being placed with the intent of misleading the consumer. Unfortunately for the people trying to use this tactic is in the same way that moderation works on slashdot, so does moderation work in p2p. If a file is a crappy sound loop, no one (or very few people) will keep the file. They will simply go back out untill they find the right file. Then once they have it, they'll keep it. So picture it like this.
The company distributes 100 sound loop files. After a month or so, the number of soundloop files is probably still 100 give or take (and with certain programs like Limewire, identical files are grouped). Now, as soon as one person buys the CD, there is a legit copy (legit meaning real). One person downloads his copy, now there are 2. One person downloads from each of them, 4. One download from each of them, 8. 16, 32, 64, 128. Etc etc etc. In the mean time, the sound loop is still at 100.
Sure the soundloop tactic would be effective maybe for the first few weeks, but afterwards, it's more a waste of money.
Because they have to know what they're looking for and where to look for it. Just because they can resolve a licenceplate on the ground doesn't mean they use the satalite for that purpose very often. I'm sure that in order for something to get resolved with that much detail, they need the object to be stationary and the weather conditions to be ideal. To resolve, and identify a person in a crag in a mountain would mostlikely require some rather ideal conditions that are most likely not present very often in afganistan.
That aint true and you know it. Just use some common sense, Look at a satalite dish. Are they all angled straight up into the air? Nope. Satalites are line of site. Not just at the zenith. If it only worked with stalites at the zenith, your GPS systems wouldn't work.
Even the educated public have problems staying on top of stuff like this. One of the Law and Government course teachers at my local higschool who is very adamant (sp?) about the public educating themselves about what goes on in the government (the man reads Supreme Court decisions and opinions for fun) doesn't have a good grasp on this stuff. It's not that he doesn't care, it's more that these sort of laws really only affect a certain group of people. To everyone else, it just means prices went up again. Most of us care because we already spend chunks of money on high tech, we don't need to waste money lining the pockets of fat snobs. But to many other people, an extra dollar here and there for the CD doesn't matter to them, even if it is a crappy business practice, they've got bigger fish to fry.
Anyone besides me find something wrong with the little stickers on the CD-ROM sleves that say "By breaking this seal you agree to all terms and agreements set forth in this software's license" or somethign to that effect? I haven't even read the licence yet (it's on the CD) but I have to agree to it?
The only way we'll know is if we start testing. As much as it sucks to be the victim of a sience device gone wrong, sometimes it's nessesary. When they were first developing x-rays, I highly doubt any person was even thinking of checking for the possibilities of cancer. They've probably check this sucker for obvious dangers, but the less obvious ones will just have to be tested in the real world.
As proof of my point, how would anyone in the world know that having a hair dryer could make you dumb enough to use one in a shower unless some moron did so. That's why we have a warning lable.
Nothing that the public see's is any sort of really new development. My father once had a very good friend in the military, on the intelligence side of things, and he once made a comment about just how far ahead the military is sometimes. He said take state-of-the-art for consumers, and multiply it by about 10. That's state of the art for government. Believe it when theytell you they could pick your licence plate with a satilite long before you knew they could.
That's why our teachers do it the good way. They press the button to reset the memory. If it didnt have a button, they pull the batteries and the back-up batery.
Graphing elipses, parabolas, cricles, hyperbolas are easy, for the basic stuff. What I like to use my TI-83 for finding out what happens if you raise a to the sin (x) and divide by.2. Doing funky things with calcs is what I like to do. But personaly, I also like knowing where the stuff comes from. It makes the stuff more interesting. The unit circle makes trig so much easier than anything on the calc
Am I the only student in this entire world that learned to do work on paper and the calculator at the same time and learned to analyze my results? Everytime I get an answer I always ask does this make sense. And I always double check (i.e. I get a simmilar problem, solve it and in the process of doing so relize I screwed up before). Seriously, analyzation of your answer is the first thing anyone should learn.
Don't blame it entirely on the students or even the teachers. The nation has this big thing about teaching kids more earlier, so the basics have to be skimmed much faster. The stuff I learned in my highschool classes are being covered in middle schools now, and you can find pre-schools that teach (or try to teach) math and even foriegn languages. Sometimes it's rediculous how much we expect kids to learn and know at once. Ask any highschool teacher from NY (the state of Regents) and they will tell you they have very little time to teach concepts and origins of equations etc because they have to teach to standardized test.
I like my teacher's solutions. Everything we are tought, we are tought to do out by hand. If we want to use a calculator to do the problem, we have to figure it out on our own. But when it comes to grades, if there's no work, just an answer pulled out of your ass, and it's wrong, you get a big fat zero. On the other hand, if there's work, you botch up somewhere in the work, but the rest of the equations and work is correct according to your previous work, you only get penalized for the one place where you botched, because everything else was right according to that.
I don't nessearily see Apple losing money. As near as I can tell, they're still turning profits. And they were one of the only tech companies not to get hit with a large sales drop when the tech market took a dive last year.
If you read the history, the main reason Apple lost money was because they were being proprietary with too much. When Apple was going down the drain, they were selling hundreds of possible configurations of machines. All with bits of proprietaryness. But with the limited config options they have, they can be proprietary and make money.
If they put unsupported drivers out there, can you imagine the uproar over it? You PC people get up in arms cause Apple won't make their file system run on your windows box. A lack of support for an iPod would be a PR disaster.
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Apparently the editors didn't think this worthy enough to accept as a story, so here it is:
Pledge of Allegience Unconstitutional
This isn't a joke, and I figure it's a bit more important than some of the stuff here. Go a head and mod me down, but I think this is important.
Yeah, but the costs of not only the programmer, but then the machines, the cost of producing the first corrupt file (these appear to be manufactured) and then tag on the costs of bandwidth, besides, even if it doesn't cost that much, they could say it does. More revenue, and who's any the wiser?
Heck, if the pirates are getting half of the money of every version of windows sold, sign me up. I got a few copies to distribute, and at $200+ copy, I'll make a good amount of money on the side.
I can't wait to see the RIAA on this one. The reason I assumed a singular distribution, or at least a limmited distribution is because I assumed that like all business entities, these companies would want to save money. To provide a constant stream of these files would have a rather heavy cost associated with them. Of course, we can safely assume that this would just be reflected back to the consumers in the form of higher prices and will be justified with graphs and charts showing how the evil napster pirates are costing the industry (whoops, I mean the artists) all of their money.
P2P aint dying, it may however revert back to it's old form of personal ftp servers however (a la hotline)
P2P is in an ever evolving state. Before Napster bit the dust, doomsayers were saying it would be the end of filesharing. Whoops, they missed the mark there. It's sort of like the Hydra. Cut off one head and 2 more take it's place. And in essence that's what will happen. IF the RIAA ever managed to kill gnutella (arguably the largest system currently), a whole bunch of people would be scrambling to create new networks. The result would be 3 or 4 new and effective networks. Sure they'd be smaller, but only temporarily.
Like it or not, P2P is here to stay. It's a system with legal and illegal uses. The legal nature is what keeps the creation of a complete ban impossible, and the illegal nature is what keeps the system evolving.
There's a slight difference here between the Warez sites and these new "tactics".
With the warez sites, the ads are there because these guys can't find anyone else to host them, so they need the money for the ads. The ads are not being put up by Bungie, or Blizzard or EA or any of the other companies.
As for the p2p networks however, these files are being placed with the intent of misleading the consumer. Unfortunately for the people trying to use this tactic is in the same way that moderation works on slashdot, so does moderation work in p2p. If a file is a crappy sound loop, no one (or very few people) will keep the file. They will simply go back out untill they find the right file. Then once they have it, they'll keep it. So picture it like this.
The company distributes 100 sound loop files. After a month or so, the number of soundloop files is probably still 100 give or take (and with certain programs like Limewire, identical files are grouped). Now, as soon as one person buys the CD, there is a legit copy (legit meaning real). One person downloads his copy, now there are 2. One person downloads from each of them, 4. One download from each of them, 8. 16, 32, 64, 128. Etc etc etc. In the mean time, the sound loop is still at 100.
Sure the soundloop tactic would be effective maybe for the first few weeks, but afterwards, it's more a waste of money.
I'm not saying they do track. I'm saying that they can track. We as consumers have no idea what state of the art really is.
Because they have to know what they're looking for and where to look for it. Just because they can resolve a licenceplate on the ground doesn't mean they use the satalite for that purpose very often. I'm sure that in order for something to get resolved with that much detail, they need the object to be stationary and the weather conditions to be ideal. To resolve, and identify a person in a crag in a mountain would mostlikely require some rather ideal conditions that are most likely not present very often in afganistan.
That aint true and you know it. Just use some common sense, Look at a satalite dish. Are they all angled straight up into the air? Nope. Satalites are line of site. Not just at the zenith. If it only worked with stalites at the zenith, your GPS systems wouldn't work.
My teachers have a program on their own calculator that fries your memory and resets to whole thing,
Even the educated public have problems staying on top of stuff like this. One of the Law and Government course teachers at my local higschool who is very adamant (sp?) about the public educating themselves about what goes on in the government (the man reads Supreme Court decisions and opinions for fun) doesn't have a good grasp on this stuff. It's not that he doesn't care, it's more that these sort of laws really only affect a certain group of people. To everyone else, it just means prices went up again. Most of us care because we already spend chunks of money on high tech, we don't need to waste money lining the pockets of fat snobs. But to many other people, an extra dollar here and there for the CD doesn't matter to them, even if it is a crappy business practice, they've got bigger fish to fry.
Anyone besides me find something wrong with the little stickers on the CD-ROM sleves that say "By breaking this seal you agree to all terms and agreements set forth in this software's license" or somethign to that effect? I haven't even read the licence yet (it's on the CD) but I have to agree to it?
The only way we'll know is if we start testing. As much as it sucks to be the victim of a sience device gone wrong, sometimes it's nessesary. When they were first developing x-rays, I highly doubt any person was even thinking of checking for the possibilities of cancer. They've probably check this sucker for obvious dangers, but the less obvious ones will just have to be tested in the real world.
As proof of my point, how would anyone in the world know that having a hair dryer could make you dumb enough to use one in a shower unless some moron did so. That's why we have a warning lable.
Nothing that the public see's is any sort of really new development. My father once had a very good friend in the military, on the intelligence side of things, and he once made a comment about just how far ahead the military is sometimes. He said take state-of-the-art for consumers, and multiply it by about 10. That's state of the art for government. Believe it when theytell you they could pick your licence plate with a satilite long before you knew they could.
If it's any consolation, I'm american and I prefer colour over color. It just looks more natural. Same with armour over armor
a^2 + b^2 = c^2 is not always true. If you are dealing with elipses it's a^2 + c^2 = b^2
That and every kid should know that A*B DOES NOT EQUAL B*A and know when that statement is true (matricies)
That's why our teachers do it the good way. They press the button to reset the memory. If it didnt have a button, they pull the batteries and the back-up batery.
Graphing elipses, parabolas, cricles, hyperbolas are easy, for the basic stuff. What I like to use my TI-83 for finding out what happens if you raise a to the sin (x) and divide by .2. Doing funky things with calcs is what I like to do. But personaly, I also like knowing where the stuff comes from. It makes the stuff more interesting. The unit circle makes trig so much easier than anything on the calc
Am I the only student in this entire world that learned to do work on paper and the calculator at the same time and learned to analyze my results? Everytime I get an answer I always ask does this make sense. And I always double check (i.e. I get a simmilar problem, solve it and in the process of doing so relize I screwed up before). Seriously, analyzation of your answer is the first thing anyone should learn.
Don't blame it entirely on the students or even the teachers. The nation has this big thing about teaching kids more earlier, so the basics have to be skimmed much faster. The stuff I learned in my highschool classes are being covered in middle schools now, and you can find pre-schools that teach (or try to teach) math and even foriegn languages. Sometimes it's rediculous how much we expect kids to learn and know at once. Ask any highschool teacher from NY (the state of Regents) and they will tell you they have very little time to teach concepts and origins of equations etc because they have to teach to standardized test.
I like my teacher's solutions. Everything we are tought, we are tought to do out by hand. If we want to use a calculator to do the problem, we have to figure it out on our own. But when it comes to grades, if there's no work, just an answer pulled out of your ass, and it's wrong, you get a big fat zero. On the other hand, if there's work, you botch up somewhere in the work, but the rest of the equations and work is correct according to your previous work, you only get penalized for the one place where you botched, because everything else was right according to that.
I don't nessearily see Apple losing money. As near as I can tell, they're still turning profits. And they were one of the only tech companies not to get hit with a large sales drop when the tech market took a dive last year.
If you read the history, the main reason Apple lost money was because they were being proprietary with too much. When Apple was going down the drain, they were selling hundreds of possible configurations of machines. All with bits of proprietaryness. But with the limited config options they have, they can be proprietary and make money.
If they put unsupported drivers out there, can you imagine the uproar over it? You PC people get up in arms cause Apple won't make their file system run on your windows box. A lack of support for an iPod would be a PR disaster.
Size for one. The iPod fits in your pocket. I dare you to stick a JukeBox into your pocet.
Firewire, most MP3 players are still limited to USB
If I recall right, iPod has the ability to run small apps. I believe there have already been a few apps (games) developed
The iPod can also be used as an external HD. Meaning you can (and it has been done) BOOT your computer off the iPod.
That it it looks ficken awsome, and you can get them custom engraved.