"Among the threats listed are the potential for the new media giant to violate net neutrality and favor its own content both on television and online."
Potential? Yeah, and I have the potential to have to take a piss sometime in the next two days.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.
-- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill
"I'll wager that a countryman's half of all Churchill quotations are fictions, dream'd up on a whim to aid the malarkinations of sophists and deceivers. I for one have never met the fucker, and know not one man of good sense who hath."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"What are you staring at, homo?" - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, to FDR, after the PM emerged naked from his shower at Yalta.
Actually the real full name of bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit it means The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarma
Confucius say: Man who go through airport turnstile sideways going to Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit!
I remember hearing the theory that just as we get close to figuring out the universe, it instantly morphs into something more complex and confusing. Personally, it's the best explanation yet into how the universe works.
No, you remember hearing that when we figure out the universe, we win the game:
That's why people need to understand the danger that Apple poses now, before Apple succeeds in establishing a Microsoft-like monopoly over media, content, and apps.
Microsoft managed to establish a monopoly on operating systems because there were a small number of computer manufacturers. The barrier to entry into manufacturing was high, and on top of that, they were in a race to the bottom in terms of retail pricing as they were all making essentially the same product from the average consumer's point of view.
There are many creators of content. The barrier to entry is low. There are providers of content parallel to and just as easily accessible by the consumer as Apple.
I don't see an Apple monopoly in any of those areas being inevitable. In fact, it is probably impossible.
'Many of these are low-priced promotional names that have now come up for renewal at a higher price,' said Pat Kane, vice president of naming services at VeriSign.
(Adam Savage voice on) Well, there's your problem right there. (Adam Savage voice off)
You're right - because someone came up with an elegant, no-moving-parts, no-training-needed design to clean the seawater, but it doesn't clean up the marshlands, it's useless.
The coolest, high-tech, space-age barn door closer is still a barn door closer.
The problem is that alternatives are not (yet) economical, and will never be until they get economies of scale (which is a chicken and egg problem), or until cheap oil runs out.
Price for 10 individual papers might be $300 or so at most. It often makes more sense to buy individual articles.
At prices that high, it makes even more sense to either go visit a library that has the journal in question -- or ask a friend who's associated with an institution that has on-line access to borrow their access code. At least, for an individual doing research on their own.
You bet - if I'm working out of my garage I would totally beg, borrow, or steal journal articles. But I work for a big corporation which made it clear a long time ago that we are expected to pay all legitimate costs associated with the business. I don't sneak into conferences; I pick up the tab when eating with customers. Hell, if I use shareware, I actually pay for it.
Actually I'd say it's more like those membership stores like Costco that make you pay a fee for the privilege of shopping there.
It's admittedly successful, but that's only because there are certain people that while a relatively small percentage of the total population, can be relied upon to be so stupid as to not only submit to such treatment but to do it happily and regularly.
I think this is probably what we Americans call a Hail Mary strategy -- put the ball up in the air in the final few seconds of a close, but lost, game and pray.
Except that the Hail Mary pass play succeeds sometimes. This is more analogous to having your punter take the snap from your own 1-yard line and try to run 99 yards for the TD. In his street clothes. Drunk.
>> He wants all newspapers to go paywalled, so he can try and create an artificial scarcity and maintain pre-internet pricing models.
In essence he wants laws passed and customary behavior established that ensure that no vehicle may travel without at least 2 standard Buggy Whips and a bag of oats aboard.
Well, were there not laws passed in some jurisdictions that every horseless carriage had to be preceeded by a man on foot waving a red lantern?
Exactly. Nobody pays for single academic papers online at the publisher (well, maybe a few idiots I guess).
Well slap my rump and call me a nobody idiot. Actually, there are many journals we don't use enough to justify an annual institutional subscription. I might need 5-10 papers a year from a journal. Subscription cost might be $10,000. Price for 10 individual papers might be $300 or so at most. It often makes more sense to buy individual articles.
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"Among the threats listed are the potential for the new media giant to violate net neutrality and favor its own content both on television and online."
Potential? Yeah, and I have the potential to have to take a piss sometime in the next two days.
"I'll wager that a countryman's half of all Churchill quotations are fictions, dream'd up on a whim to aid the malarkinations of sophists and deceivers. I for one have never met the fucker, and know not one man of good sense who hath."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"What are you staring at, homo?"
- Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, to FDR, after the PM emerged naked from his shower at Yalta.
But I guess it will be long before the UK closes web sites on the ground that they are defamatory to the royal family.
Well, there goes the UK dressage team's chances.
Actually the real full name of bangkok is
Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit
it means
The city of angels, the great city, the eternal jewel city, the impregnable city of God Indra, the grand capital of the world endowed with nine precious gems, the happy city, abounding in an enormous Royal Palace that resembles the heavenly abode where reigns the reincarnated god, a city given by Indra and built by Vishnukarma
Confucius say: Man who go through airport turnstile sideways going to Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Yuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom Udomratchaniwet Mahasathan Amon Phiman Awatan Sathit Sakkathattiya Witsanukam Prasit!
I hate iProducts. The thing I hate the most about them is that they are so popular
Yeah! When will those stupid sheeple wake up?
I remember hearing the theory that just as we get close to figuring out the universe, it instantly morphs into something more complex and confusing. Personally, it's the best explanation yet into how the universe works.
No, you remember hearing that when we figure out the universe, we win the game:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19550880/GUT-The-Grand-Unified-Theory-A-oneact-play-with-seven-blackouts
Slashdot should is an attack site.
I accidentally the app store.
Apple is backing themselves into the same corner they did with PC's
A 240 billion dollar market cap? I'd like to find a corner like that to back into.
That's why people need to understand the danger that Apple poses now, before Apple succeeds in establishing a Microsoft-like monopoly over media, content, and apps.
Microsoft managed to establish a monopoly on operating systems because there were a small number of computer manufacturers. The barrier to entry into manufacturing was high, and on top of that, they were in a race to the bottom in terms of retail pricing as they were all making essentially the same product from the average consumer's point of view.
There are many creators of content. The barrier to entry is low. There are providers of content parallel to and just as easily accessible by the consumer as Apple.
I don't see an Apple monopoly in any of those areas being inevitable. In fact, it is probably impossible.
When the elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
When cognitive psychologists fight, nobody notices.
'Many of these are low-priced promotional names that have now come up for renewal at a higher price,' said Pat Kane, vice president of naming services at VeriSign.
(Adam Savage voice on)
Well, there's your problem right there.
(Adam Savage voice off)
I'm eating vanilla pudding.
Did you raid the refrigerator at the F&E clinic?
When we break the light barrier, we meet the one true God.
No, when you solve the riddle, you meet the Maker.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19550880/GUT-The-Grand-Unified-Theory-A-oneact-play-with-seven-blackouts
You're right - because someone came up with an elegant, no-moving-parts, no-training-needed design to clean the seawater, but it doesn't clean up the marshlands, it's useless.
The coolest, high-tech, space-age barn door closer is still a barn door closer.
Not when you tell the driver your name is Duggal.
No teleportation. Less space than the Library of Congress. Lame.
The problem is that alternatives are not (yet) economical, and will never be until they get economies of scale (which is a chicken and egg problem), or until cheap oil runs out.
Some allege that cheap oil is an illusion:
http://www.iags.org/costofoil.html
At prices that high, it makes even more sense to either go visit a library that has the journal in question -- or ask a friend who's associated with an institution that has on-line access to borrow their access code. At least, for an individual doing research on their own.
You bet - if I'm working out of my garage I would totally beg, borrow, or steal journal articles. But I work for a big corporation which made it clear a long time ago that we are expected to pay all legitimate costs associated with the business. I don't sneak into conferences; I pick up the tab when eating with customers. Hell, if I use shareware, I actually pay for it.
Yes, you twit, a hundred years ago - and that's exactly the point.
Oh. So I can let the lad go, then?
Grandma Utz's are fried in lard. Old school, sinful, delicious lard. Where does that fit in his analogy?
http://www.utzsnacks.com/products/grandmachips.html
Actually I'd say it's more like those membership stores like Costco that make you pay a fee for the privilege of shopping there.
It's admittedly successful, but that's only because there are certain people that while a relatively small percentage of the total population, can be relied upon to be so stupid as to not only submit to such treatment but to do it happily and regularly.
Similar business model when it comes to Fox News.
Costco = Fox News?
Worst. Analogy. Ever.
I think this is probably what we Americans call a Hail Mary strategy -- put the ball up in the air in the final few seconds of a close, but lost, game and pray.
Except that the Hail Mary pass play succeeds sometimes. This is more analogous to having your punter take the snap from your own 1-yard line and try to run 99 yards for the TD. In his street clothes. Drunk.
>> He wants all newspapers to go paywalled, so he can try and create an artificial scarcity and maintain pre-internet pricing models.
In essence he wants laws passed and customary behavior established that ensure that no vehicle may travel without at least 2 standard Buggy Whips and a bag of oats aboard.
Well, were there not laws passed in some jurisdictions that every horseless carriage had to be preceeded by a man on foot waving a red lantern?
Exactly. Nobody pays for single academic papers online at the publisher (well, maybe a few idiots I guess).
Well slap my rump and call me a nobody idiot. Actually, there are many journals we don't use enough to justify an annual institutional subscription. I might need 5-10 papers a year from a journal. Subscription cost might be $10,000. Price for 10 individual papers might be $300 or so at most. It often makes more sense to buy individual articles.
Tsk, tsk. Mod MIT -1 overrated. I sure wouldn't pay out my ass to send my kids there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes