Most folks have 2 year contracts and at any given time half of them are less than 1 year in. Additionally bussinesses may have other sorts of contracts that employees must follow. Hence there's inertia in the system. Rich folks might take the bullet and eat the contract penalites on their current phone--after all if you're paying $600 for the phone plus paying a premium for the high level services like "visula voice messageing", and you probably have a wi-fi hotspot contract too, you're not going to care that much about a penalty price of a contract to get out of.
The rest of us won't or cant' switch (cingular is not so good in rural areas). So cingular for a few years then they let in the other players, the price drops and we unwashed get ours after all the bugs are worked out.
Some other thoughts 1) The use of WiFi and the ability to have ringtones and pictures that don't cost you 2 bucks a pop from the phone company is a daring move for Cingular. WiFi means that these can be Skype phones too. So Cingular has a window of opportunity before WiFi and wimax becom ubquitous to get these folks as loyal customers while they develope some sort of way to make people pay for wifi voip.
2) Second, this is actually great news for microsoft, palm, and everyone except balckberry. Since the iphone is cingular only there's going to be huge demand for this level of phonage tech for all the other phone services. They have to get these from some body. With apple having signed an exclusive deal with cingular the other 99% of the market will be crying out. The next generation Zune will likely look a lot like this plus it will propbably have a built in Wii controller for xbox
3) And speaking of Wii, The apple phone has built in blue tooth and accelerometers, plus all sorts of gripping hand input modes. I wonder if it can do absolute positioning in space--maybe with that camera on the back. if so then this woul dbe an awesome game controller. rig this the the iTV (not the wii) and apple is set. Now the price looks even cheaper since you already have the home computer--if it can do the wiii thing too well bite me. Of course you'll need a couple input devices..
If we accept the response by the manufactures at face value what they say is that while the doctored machine can intercept some information it still cannot be used to counterfeit a chip-and-pin card or forge a chip-and-pin transaction. Thus they are still correct in saying it's impossible to beat--for now at least.
Any system can trick users by social engineering. But techincally this chip-and-pin system is still secure in the face of that. Their weak point is that because the overseas transactions are robustly secure and can be forged from the information gather by this attack. Thus the banking systemis not perfectly secure but the problem is not the chip-an-pin itself.
Obviously you have not heard of fink, which is a curated port of about 3000 programs from the Debian package manager. Or of DarwinPorts. Most of KDE and Gnome is in that set by the way. And the pacakge managers actually work on all apples without crazy crap like compat libs and driver patches that eat up time and money. So no Linux does not blow anything out of the water. Additionally, since mac is UNIX it's often not hard to get Linux software to compile on a mac. (and because of fink all the useful libs are there). Finally, it's compatively easy and quite cheap to virtualize linux (or windows) on a mac so you can run nearly anything in Linux at full speed and full screen. The reverse is not true of course. Virtuallizing windows or mac os on random PC hardware is often a time consuming and thus expensive chore with no assured path to compatibility. Ergo apple has much lower TCO for software.
It's been well noted for the last 20 years that apples have lower techinician to user ratios than say windows. That means in heterogenius envirnoments there are relatively fewer mac IT folks. This leads to two problems 1) when it comes time to vote on things or downselect on platforms the Windows people out number the mac folks. and 2) when something really difficult needs to be done, like getting some active directory to fail over properly on a heterogenous network, or to figure out why NFS is slow off of the apple raid server, then there's less of a critical mass of expertise and manpower make the change. Without that depth chances are some problems will be insurmountable despite the system being on the whole easier to maintain.
Thus if it's the IT dept that is advising corporate decsion making you get people voting for their jobs and expertise and saying they can't solve the problems on the macs. In reality if they just had a slightly bigger mac IT department that most of the time twidded it's thumbs like the maytag repairman but was ready to fight the big fires, they could overall have a smaller IT dept.
There's simply no question that macs are easier to maintain on a day to day basis. But you need the depth of IT staff to fight the big fires and few mac IT depts have that.
Over and Over I see the same happening to the linux techs who, after being hired for unix, are sucked in to the Windows vortex that consumes all IT resources, leading us to want to hire yet another unix tech.
All of MP3 charges about a dime a song. That's paying there server costs and making them a profit. Let's add on 20 cents for an artist profit.
That means a profitable bussiness that had no promotional and production costs for the artist could operate at 30 cents a song. Presumably with higher volume then that could be even lower and still make a profit.
Thus there's a 40 cent gap here. Surely the cost of promotion and production when ammortized over all artisits (proficable ones and not profitable ones) could not be that large could it? I reallt don't know but this seems strange to me cause I really don't see the effects of such promotion. If it's there then it must be more bhind the scenes payola for product placement or something.
of course the artists share is grossly inflated. I doubt artists actually recieve 20 cents at all until pay-back for production to the studio has occurred. Maybe brittany gets 20 cents.
So my guess is that something like 20 to 30 cents is really the ammortized cost per song including the cost of electronic distribution and that atill would make a profit.
Where's cringley's metal film disks? He said they were going to be in produciton soon and would cost less, use less power and have lower latency to flash even when spun down. They also work at elevated temperatures (suited for cars and embeddeds) and are insanley shock resistant. They could even be spun up to 30,000 rpms making them have higher data rates and lower latency. And they were lower profile than conventional disks. They sound a lot better than these flash compromises since there's no compromise. It's just an ultra-low power hard disk.
it's rent versus own. rent is cheaper--less rights--but maybe all you actuall want at the time.
But as I understood it the apple DVD you write was only CSS protected like any DVD. The digital hard disk format had some other protection (fairplay?) to make piracy difficult. Seems like the perfect blend to me.
true the quality is less. But you paid less too, and had a wider range of title in print to choose from. If you want high quality and can tolerate a longer wait you are free to pay more to get the higher quality one shipped to you assuming you can find a seller where it is in print. It's not a rip-off any more than fast food is a rip off compared to a home cooked meal. You sometimes eat fat food right? Well you only got one burger not a whole pound for your $3.00 and you only got to burn it once.
it will give you access to legal dowmloads so the back catalog will be enormous and always available on demand. The interface will be infomrative and first rate like itunes. The quality of video assured and in the language you actually needed (not sweedish or madarin). it can make what you do with bit torrent legal.
Finally it may well be using BT as the conduit. For all I know one could imagine it would be a way you could actually re-sell your bandwidth using BT. if you are a seeder for some movie maybe you could earn credits to get new movies.
the point is. yeah it's not free but it's legal. People are already shelling out money for PVRs and Tivo. this will replace that for less money and no montly service charges and offer onle-click conveninece. that's worth paying for.
The so-called iTV according to one rumor site will have the following features:
1) you can download movies in high res 2) watch them on the TV 3) Burn them to DVD one time 4) You can keep the digital copy on your hard drive as long as you want, but it will only play on that machine (or iTV)
plus you can play a normal DVD you rented on your mac and your iTV will tivo it for viewing later after you return the disk. You cannot reburn these or move them to another machine but you can view them later on that machine.
that seems pretty fair. it basically gives you all the capability and ownership rights you have now with physical media but it does not aid in piracy. If so once again apple will get it right.
Social Networking is all about sex and status. As long as it can achieve more of those for the user or at least the user can be persuaded of that then the burden is not too much until an easier route appears. If the chicks leave the guys will leave too. If they stay, then the guys will stay too. It's that simple.
The burnout is just another way of saying it's not worth the effort for the return on the sex.
Normally the RIAA lacks any sort of documentary proof of a download. The have to get ISP to give them info, they have to get hard drives, and then they have to show that the person downloaded something and maybe it was the cousin who was visiting or the retarded sister. THey can't prove who it was, and there are so many pathetic poster children they end up suing and looking bad.
But this case is different. They have visa card numbers. These are adults and these are tied to one person. They have IP addresses and they have the list of song transactions. This is hard proof. And they can pick and choose who to make an example of with such a rich treasure trove. There's going to be plenty of people in the grand-theft category and that means siginificant jail time not just damages.
This is the RIAA's opportunity to make the court work for them.
AllofMp3 will never see court. Instead they will offer a deal: turn over all the records of people who bought songs there outside of russia and pay some nominal fine and they walk.
How can one page get access to another page's data? Javascript or not? Aren't pages that don't have a parent child hierarchy supposed to have no way to communicate (aside from same site cookies)? How does this work
A state that has but a single ISP has the power of censorship readily available. By blocking this address, even as a side effect it is alerting the Quatarese to their peril. Conversely spam blocking is not censorship but rather the reverse, making public forums protected for the use of real speech. It also forces the the ISP to try to police it's own spam generators to our general benefit. Blocking it at the source is the desired solution. Hopefully people will vote with their feet and a new ISP in quatar will arise and give those folks some choice and protection from censorship.
This is not a bad thing. While the side effect is temporarily drastic, if quatar had multiple ISPS we would not be discussing this at all.
Windows NT was not a replacement for windows 95. Windows 98 and windows ME were mainly filler and polish for win95 not new fundamentally restructured OS. Windows 2000 and XP were the fundemantal structural changes (more like NT) to the underlying OS. Windows 2003 was again filler. Vista will be a new fundamentally changed OS.
Has any ever noticed the following pattern. 1) new windows is announced 2) it is delivered 1 to 3 years later than promised 3) oddly, it turns out a new windows actually arrives in stores every 5 years like clockwork.
Hmmmm.... I'd say it was an MO. MS is always ontime. The early announcment is just a bluff to keep people from buying the competition. Hey don't switch to linux cause vista is gonna be so good and it's comming out soon.
Actually it's not. It could be as you say. And it would be desirabe too. Indeed macs already implement a secure swap. Not sure about hiberation. But as I said it's not what the government is concerned about when it mandates FDE. Others might have other objectives. in this case it's not high level security but simply low probability of data spillage. Obvious you are right there is some exposure if the hiberantion swap is theoretically accessible. But it's not a big exposure given the normal usage pattern.
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Most folks have 2 year contracts and at any given time half of them are less than 1 year in. Additionally bussinesses may have other sorts of contracts that employees must follow. Hence there's inertia in the system. Rich folks might take the bullet and eat the contract penalites on their current phone--after all if you're paying $600 for the phone plus paying a premium for the high level services like "visula voice messageing", and you probably have a wi-fi hotspot contract too, you're not going to care that much about a penalty price of a contract to get out of.
The rest of us won't or cant' switch (cingular is not so good in rural areas). So cingular for a few years then they let in the other players, the price drops and we unwashed get ours after all the bugs are worked out.
Some other thoughts
1) The use of WiFi and the ability to have ringtones and pictures that don't cost you 2 bucks a pop from the phone company is a daring move for Cingular. WiFi means that these can be Skype phones too. So Cingular has a window of opportunity before WiFi and wimax becom ubquitous to get these folks as loyal customers while they develope some sort of way to make people pay for wifi voip.
2) Second, this is actually great news for microsoft, palm, and everyone except balckberry. Since the iphone is cingular only there's going to be huge demand for this level of phonage tech for all the other phone services. They have to get these from some body. With apple having signed an exclusive deal with cingular the other 99% of the market will be crying out. The next generation Zune will likely look a lot like this plus it will propbably have a built in Wii controller for xbox
3) And speaking of Wii, The apple phone has built in blue tooth and accelerometers, plus all sorts of gripping hand input modes. I wonder if it can do absolute positioning in space--maybe with that camera on the back. if so then this woul dbe an awesome game controller. rig this the the iTV (not the wii) and apple is set. Now the price looks even cheaper since you already have the home computer--if it can do the wiii thing too well bite me. Of course you'll need a couple input devices..
If we accept the response by the manufactures at face value what they say is that while the doctored machine can intercept some information it still cannot be used to counterfeit a chip-and-pin card or forge a chip-and-pin transaction. Thus they are still correct in saying it's impossible to beat--for now at least.
Any system can trick users by social engineering. But techincally this chip-and-pin system is still secure in the face of that. Their weak point is that because the overseas transactions are robustly secure and can be forged from the information gather by this attack. Thus the banking systemis not perfectly secure but the problem is not the chip-an-pin itself.
I predict you will see bums holding signs in nigteclub parking lots.
Obviously you have not heard of fink, which is a curated port of about 3000 programs from the Debian package manager. Or of DarwinPorts. Most of KDE and Gnome is in that set by the way. And the pacakge managers actually work on all apples without crazy crap like compat libs and driver patches that eat up time and money. So no Linux does not blow anything out of the water. Additionally, since mac is UNIX it's often not hard to get Linux software to compile on a mac. (and because of fink all the useful libs are there). Finally, it's compatively easy and quite cheap to virtualize linux (or windows) on a mac so you can run nearly anything in Linux at full speed and full screen. The reverse is not true of course. Virtuallizing windows or mac os on random PC hardware is often a time consuming and thus expensive chore with no assured path to compatibility. Ergo apple has much lower TCO for software.
It's been well noted for the last 20 years that apples have lower techinician to user ratios than say windows. That means in heterogenius envirnoments there are relatively fewer mac IT folks. This leads to two problems 1) when it comes time to vote on things or downselect on platforms the Windows people out number the mac folks. and 2) when something really difficult needs to be done, like getting some active directory to fail over properly on a heterogenous network, or to figure out why NFS is slow off of the apple raid server, then there's less of a critical mass of expertise and manpower make the change. Without that depth chances are some problems will be insurmountable despite the system being on the whole easier to maintain.
Thus if it's the IT dept that is advising corporate decsion making you get people voting for their jobs and expertise and saying they can't solve the problems on the macs. In reality if they just had a slightly bigger mac IT department that most of the time twidded it's thumbs like the maytag repairman but was ready to fight the big fires, they could overall have a smaller IT dept.
There's simply no question that macs are easier to maintain on a day to day basis. But you need the depth of IT staff to fight the big fires and few mac IT depts have that.
Over and Over I see the same happening to the linux techs who, after being hired for unix, are sucked in to the Windows vortex that consumes all IT resources, leading us to want to hire yet another unix tech.
Blasphemy. Rewriting the sacred text of the colonies. Where's Cmdr Adama?
All of MP3 charges about a dime a song. That's paying there server costs and making them a profit. Let's add on 20 cents for an artist profit.
That means a profitable bussiness that had no promotional and production costs for the artist could operate at 30 cents a song. Presumably with higher volume then that could be even lower and still make a profit.
Thus there's a 40 cent gap here. Surely the cost of promotion and production when ammortized over all artisits (proficable ones and not profitable ones) could not be that large could it? I reallt don't know but this seems strange to me cause I really don't see the effects of such promotion. If it's there then it must be more bhind the scenes payola for product placement or something.
of course the artists share is grossly inflated. I doubt artists actually recieve 20 cents at all until pay-back for production to the studio has occurred. Maybe brittany gets 20 cents.
So my guess is that something like 20 to 30 cents is really the ammortized cost per song including the cost of electronic distribution and that atill would make a profit.
Where's cringley's metal film disks? He said they were going to be in produciton soon and would cost less, use less power and have lower latency to flash even when spun down. They also work at elevated temperatures (suited for cars and embeddeds) and are insanley shock resistant. They could even be spun up to 30,000 rpms making them have higher data rates and lower latency. And they were lower profile than conventional disks. They sound a lot better than these flash compromises since there's no compromise. It's just an ultra-low power hard disk.
I forget whose dry wit you were paraphrasing there. Was it Menken or Barnum or goldwyn?
it's rent versus own. rent is cheaper--less rights--but maybe all you actuall want at the time. But as I understood it the apple DVD you write was only CSS protected like any DVD. The digital hard disk format had some other protection (fairplay?) to make piracy difficult. Seems like the perfect blend to me.
true the quality is less. But you paid less too, and had a wider range of title in print to choose from. If you want high quality and can tolerate a longer wait you are free to pay more to get the higher quality one shipped to you assuming you can find a seller where it is in print. It's not a rip-off any more than fast food is a rip off compared to a home cooked meal. You sometimes eat fat food right? Well you only got one burger not a whole pound for your $3.00 and you only got to burn it once.
How many DVD's do you get when you buy one DVD in the store? one. Why should they let you burn more than one?
it will give you access to legal dowmloads so the back catalog will be enormous and always available on demand. The interface will be infomrative and first rate like itunes. The quality of video assured and in the language you actually needed (not sweedish or madarin). it can make what you do with bit torrent legal.
Finally it may well be using BT as the conduit. For all I know one could imagine it would be a way you could actually re-sell your bandwidth using BT. if you are a seeder for some movie maybe you could earn credits to get new movies.
the point is. yeah it's not free but it's legal. People are already shelling out money for PVRs and Tivo. this will replace that for less money and no montly service charges and offer onle-click conveninece. that's worth paying for.
The so-called iTV according to one rumor site will have the following features:
1) you can download movies in high res
2) watch them on the TV
3) Burn them to DVD one time
4) You can keep the digital copy on your hard drive as long as you want, but it will only play on that machine (or iTV)
plus you can play a normal DVD you rented on your mac and your iTV will tivo it for viewing later after you return the disk. You cannot reburn these or move them to another machine but you can view them later on that machine.
that seems pretty fair. it basically gives you all the capability and ownership rights you have now with physical media but it does not aid in piracy. If so once again apple will get it right.
Social Networking is all about sex and status. As long as it can achieve more of those for the user or at least the user can be persuaded of that then the burden is not too much until an easier route appears. If the chicks leave the guys will leave too. If they stay, then the guys will stay too. It's that simple.
The burnout is just another way of saying it's not worth the effort for the return on the sex.
Normally the RIAA lacks any sort of documentary proof of a download. The have to get ISP to give them info, they have to get hard drives, and then they have to show that the person downloaded something and maybe it was the cousin who was visiting or the retarded sister. THey can't prove who it was, and there are so many pathetic poster children they end up suing and looking bad.
But this case is different. They have visa card numbers. These are adults and these are tied to one person. They have IP addresses and they have the list of song transactions. This is hard proof. And they can pick and choose who to make an example of with such a rich treasure trove. There's going to be plenty of people in the grand-theft category and that means siginificant jail time not just damages.
This is the RIAA's opportunity to make the court work for them.
Dumbass back at you.
AllofMp3 will never see court. Instead they will offer a deal: turn over all the records of people who bought songs there outside of russia and pay some nominal fine and they walk.
How can one page get access to another page's data? Javascript or not? Aren't pages that don't have a parent child hierarchy supposed to have no way to communicate (aside from same site cookies)? How does this work
A state that has but a single ISP has the power of censorship readily available. By blocking this address, even as a side effect it is alerting the Quatarese to their peril. Conversely spam blocking is not censorship but rather the reverse, making public forums protected for the use of real speech. It also forces the the ISP to try to police it's own spam generators to our general benefit. Blocking it at the source is the desired solution. Hopefully people will vote with their feet and a new ISP in quatar will arise and give those folks some choice and protection from censorship.
This is not a bad thing. While the side effect is temporarily drastic, if quatar had multiple ISPS we would not be discussing this at all.
good point. though linux users may be spoofing the os detector
Windows NT was not a replacement for windows 95. Windows 98 and windows ME were mainly filler and polish for win95 not new fundamentally restructured OS. Windows 2000 and XP were the fundemantal structural changes (more like NT) to the underlying OS. Windows 2003 was again filler. Vista will be a new fundamentally changed OS.
Has any ever noticed the following pattern.
1) new windows is announced
2) it is delivered 1 to 3 years later than promised
3) oddly, it turns out a new windows actually arrives in stores every 5 years like clockwork.
Hmmmm.... I'd say it was an MO. MS is always ontime. The early announcment is just a bluff to keep people from buying the competition. Hey don't switch to linux cause vista is gonna be so good and it's comming out soon.
Actually it's not. It could be as you say. And it would be desirabe too. Indeed macs already implement a secure swap. Not sure about hiberation. But as I said it's not what the government is concerned about when it mandates FDE. Others might have other objectives. in this case it's not high level security but simply low probability of data spillage. Obvious you are right there is some exposure if the hiberantion swap is theoretically accessible. But it's not a big exposure given the normal usage pattern.
Once the chinese vaccinate all their chickens it won;t be effective within the year. It's as simple as that.
yes but that kind of information security is not the objective of the FDE push.