even Magic "rare" cards aren't really that rare when the print run is millions. Magic R&D stopped designing sets for "rare" collectors a while ago. Now they design sets and rarity per "box" so that sealed pack play is balanced... the competition circuit will get whatever they want because they're willing to pay 100x cost to get it.
The better plan for an online game might be to use skill or exclusivity as short term ways of varying the game. Doll out exclusive cards by mail and balance them by zip code, it would take a few weeks before they spread to common play. If you used them for tournaments or such the time (to being copied) would be long enough to work. Or go to a WoW type thing where you have to play a "character" and build skill points online before you can use certain cards.... and like WoW as you gain specialization, you limit options to be "all powerful". Find ways to make play fun right NOW, and then release to collectors later after letting the cool factor of the players run it's course.
but telcos are granted those monopoly perks in exchange for being fair about traffic so the public can make money. The only reason anybody was able to GET internet at home in the first place was that telcos were prohibited from banning connections to local phone numbers we used for our dial up modems. Imagine in 1995 if telcos made a 30 minute limit on non-voice phone calls. Where would we be now?
Or how about charging extra to dial a modem or fax than to DIAL a voice phone line.. the point is that they tried that ages ago, and the feds demanded they not do it. Internet connection is the "phone" service of the 21st century. How many phone companies block who you can CALL on your phone... hell you can call india or china if you got a number and there's a whole industry built around scamming people to call those places but they won't even challenge the calls unless you ask for your line to challenge that type... and there are 57 different types of long distance you have to ask to block individually.
They want to change the rules for internet so they can offer services they previously not allowed to. They were always blocked from offering news, and other phone-call services back in the day but want to try to get away with not only offering services.. but blocking competition on their lines. Imagine if we had the yellow pages but say calling a number of a towing company that wasn't in the book or was low-ranked resulted in your call going to the company that paid more for ads. It's quickly becoming obvious that the telcos are trying to pull that stunt under the congress critter's noses and the critters might catch on soon enough.
I think somebody explained if they can turn off bittorrent, they can selectively limit (or spy on) anything they want to. Many congress critters might not understand internet, but they understand the idea of open communications and what it means even if companies are starting with "bad guy". This could go either way though. On one hand it could put a stop to things like private cell only SMS and web as well as blocking services on DSL or Cable like bittorrent. On the other hand, it could be the "foot in the door" for regulations... the RIAA could step in and get a regulation for dangerous pirates and then it quietly becomes 100% legal and consumers argue about the details. That's how these big companies work, they know how to get a small concession as law and parlay that into making what they want "official" mandate for whatever they want to do. If somebody explains "net neutrality" as "reading your email" while transferring it then congress might get the hint. Bittorrent is a bad choice to argue about because it's more like bait to allow filtering than fight it.
considering SCO owes Novell large sums of money, it would seem that Novell should get any of that cash. Perhaps this is an exit plan from SCO to get sold off so the board gets money... which shouldn't happen. They destroyed the company, they should simply lose to Novell and get nothing in return, heck even make sure you get any company cars, laptops.. call the police to recover if necessary.
under the rules there's no penalty for the 5 day waiting period. The squatters drop them before they pay any money. Icann needs a $15 non-refundable restocking fee or something.
It's not easy if you don't have the drivers for the printer! These aren't publicly available, especially not in the configuration he stole. Even if the printer worked, he wouldn't have the codes to input the security information and it wouldn't look right.
This is a case where DRM and security thru obscurity work quite nicely. Sure, it's not "uncrackable" forever but if you limit the IDs to specific hardware then it's easy to watch the internet even for a few key files it would take to make the thing work. (forever doesn't matter because they change licenses every few years then the whole thing is a novelty.) Get your honeypot to the top of Google and watch people catch themselves. It's "old school" crime solving.. like looking for the man with the missing left shoe.. only hi-tech.
These guys commute 3 hours every day.. they just can't go home. Hardly running for their lives but still serious because there's a high value of properties at stake.
That said it's too bad there's not some government stockpile of 10k to 20k people willing to help out and defend the city. If only there was some group of people dedicated to helping out after/during natural disasters.
HE is the Commander-in-chief.. if it's his army to start fights with, and pick who's "enemy combatants" it's most certainly a reflection of HIS leadership when these things happen. HE claims all sorts of rights that no other president has claimed so HE has chosen to be absolutely in charge. HE is the UNITARY executive and accordingly it's HIS personal job to fix these issues, bureaucrats act in HIS name with HIS authority.. if he felt strongly about this behavior from his subordinates HE would CHOOSE to fix it. The President has not done this privately or publicly (but he is worried about marines getting too many tattoos) so silence is considered approval.
Your title is correct, but you have it confused, either the President is in control of his executive branch and is giving these orders, or he has shirked his duty and allowed others to make decisions for him that should not be sanctioned. All of the Executive departments are either out of control of the president, or have been encouraged to act this way by his advisers. The width and breadth of this goes too far to place blame anywhere else but the man in the big chair.
no, Samba won't, because of this INFORMATION having any terms at all, they should not touch this with a 100 foot pole. The EU sold them out is what just happened. Samba already has BETTER documentation than Microsoft, they were advising the EU on what was necessary versus the line of BS Microsoft was trying to feed the court. Samba only needs about 50 pages of specs to make their implementation complete... this ruling could potentially open Samba up to legal problems because now M$ could claim Samba didn't buy or abide by the license.
Microsoft WON this case by wearing down the court, the EU didn't effect a punishment that will actually hurt M$ and the ruling will be twisted in M$ favor for years to come. The EU LOST the case!!!
The EU didn't win, Microsoft just did. The whole point of the EU's demands was that YOU owned the computer on your desk and Microsoft should provide you the APIs necessary to connect to YOUR computer from anything else you might want. By attaching ANY LICENSE to that basic right the EU sold out. Microsoft's $600M and 3 years of stalling bought them the right to tax anybody exercising their new "rights" under this judgment. The power to tax is the power to destroy. FLOSS can't use this because Microsoft managed to get the EU to honor it's PATENTS in court which was not previously allowed. Microsoft WON the case because they can still choose who gets to pay money, they can choose terms and they can choose how to calculate percent of sales. Projects like Samba based in the EU where reverse engineering is 100% legal and patents aren't allowed have just been SOLD OUT!!
but people are buying SEASON tickets, that's several thousand dollars up front... and your team may not do well and may be dead last. So the teams charge the price that season ticket holders will pay for a full season not knowing if the tickets will be worth money or not.
Without season ticket holders buying up 75%+ of seats in advance the teams couldn't pay their salaries for players. But when the teams do well, they don't like the ticket holders profiting from the risk they took buying 10 years worth of tickets ($10,000 - $20,000) to get a chance at seeing their team in playoff games. That's what the teams aren't seeing, is that some games may be worth $500, but the season ticket holders bear $10k+ worth of cost over time for this one chance at expensive tickets. Think of this more like Google that sold you shares at $137 but now doesn't want you to sell them at $600 because it's not "fair" to them if you do that.
they should sell the tickets at face value.. plus mailing tax, finder fee, etc.. just like the wonderful Ticketmaster does. After all, why don't normal ticket sellers get in trouble for doubling the price of a ticket (which they get below face cost for their margin in the first place). If large companies can sell for higher prices, why can't individuals that have a few extras?
except many people need to sell part of their tickets to afford the season tickets, or because they can't attend the game (or pay inflated prices for parking and beer). if demand is so bad, why aren't they adding seats, or having more games to get more people in? Football in particular is a joke. Baseball has 120+ games per season so the shear amount of games makes tickets to some available. Why is a football season so short? Why only a dozen games, why not twice a week.. work the man-whore-meat for their full million dollar salaries... Double the number of games, have multiple playoff games for post season.. there's lots of ways to add more tickets for multi-million dollar stadiums and get more play for the salaries they pay.
the major ball teams expect huge concessions from tax dollars to build their stadiums... taking tax money implies that it's a public function... if ball teams want to price things exclusively, then they can pay full price for stadiums, concession staff, police protection, etc, etc that get heavily subsidized by the "lowly" public.
stop using agriculture as a crutch for your argument.. if proper supply and demand was allowed to occur then farmers could charge whatever they want for food... kind of like the oil companies have done. Would you like farmers to stop growing food until the price goes up so they can make a profit, because you should be paying about 2-3 times as much if the market was truly "fair". Frankly, I don't like the idea of starving or paying 50%+ of my income for food because my neighborhood farmer lost all his crops in the drought this year. YES it has been happening, often, many farmers particularly vegetables and fruits have had TOTAL losses for more than half of the last 10 years and if it was a free market, we'd all be screwed.
they should have set aside iPhone and poured their efforts in to OSX Leopard when they had the Vista vs Leopard hype at it's peak. Steve talked it up, then not only didn't match Vista in January, or in May... but October... now Leopard will look like a "me-too" instead of the cutting edge release it is.
Apple is royally screwing the PR value of their actions lately. iPhone and Apple TV released "too little" after too much hype, releasing iPhone then dropping the prices with no notice and then bricking phones that added applications without RELEASING a proper SDK (the public already HAS one, it's childish to take it away.. Customer service 101 dude)
the tax on BLANK CDs makes some sense, but putting a fee on music downloads is like putting a fee on pre-recorded CDs because people might pirate them... that cost should be part of the label's price of selling you the files, not some government demanded fee. What's worse is that the fee goes to the copyright "board" and not the artist, so that's not like royalties they already get for music sales, but something extra going to the COMPANIES and the artists don't get.
once they start, and you comply with one request, you open yourself up to every request and they never stop. He'd spend all his future time complying with legal demands and not doing his hobby.
except it's not really a free economy because when the airlines royally screwed up and let their planes be hijacked, the feds didn't let them go out of business and executives go broke like should have happened. Instead the FAA makes all sorts of "regulations" that only make up for executive incompetence (wait for th FAA to make a "rule" about this soon) instead of allowing billion dollar companies to go under when they pull this stuff.
It's the same as the sweetheart deals they have with telcos to allow spying, or how they "punish" Microsoft, but are still their biggest customer.
Ownership rules are already in place. But a few years ago, they started allowing them to buy cross platform.. TV/radio/newspapers when they didn't used to. The market immediately consolidated as the big players simply put local shops out of business. Media collusion is also part of the problem. Mandatory payments that ASCAP/BMI and the TV networks demand pretty much rules out local ownership. The media use rules are so steep only big players can follow them all and pay the fees. Even if you could afford to buy the equipment with cash from your piggybank, unless you get "kickbacks" for running the media and required advertisements, it's almost impossible to make a radio/TV station make money because even if you produce 100% of your own media you still have royalty issues to deal with, it's that crazy. Why do you think even places like NPR have very little music and PBS rarely shows non-member funded productions? This rule is a step to roll back the problem, or at least change the scope a little bit. There has been a 35% ownership rule (expanded from 25%) for years, but then the media companies just bought up cross-media in it's place. As many stations in "out state" America serve large geographic areas, it's easy to lock up nearly all of the market.
the problem is that the myth evolved quite nicely in the 25 years up to the prequels... the Lucas shot the whole feel of the series down with the new movies. Considering much of what was in books, comics, games, etc was approved/influenced by Lucas directly fans expected more from the "official" films.
it doesn't, but it does fit into Henson's canon as many of the creatures were designed or implemented by Jim Henson's creature shop. Kermit and Ms. Piggy spawned Yoda...
You could quietly change the enrollment rules and "forget" to mail the rules out to them before the deadline (or post them in a celler) These guys won't remember to re-enroll when their term is up and you can winnow them out then. Just make sure any applications get "lost" if they don't show up to meetings. Then put some procedural rules into effect once the numbers are back down to keep this from happening again.
Also remember, XBox and Live is what Microsoft really wants Windows to be like.. that's the goal... Vista is the means. Just like XBox, they don't "owe" you to tell you what's going on.. like it or go else where!
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even Magic "rare" cards aren't really that rare when the print run is millions. Magic R&D stopped designing sets for "rare" collectors a while ago. Now they design sets and rarity per "box" so that sealed pack play is balanced... the competition circuit will get whatever they want because they're willing to pay 100x cost to get it.
The better plan for an online game might be to use skill or exclusivity as short term ways of varying the game. Doll out exclusive cards by mail and balance them by zip code, it would take a few weeks before they spread to common play. If you used them for tournaments or such the time (to being copied) would be long enough to work. Or go to a WoW type thing where you have to play a "character" and build skill points online before you can use certain cards.... and like WoW as you gain specialization, you limit options to be "all powerful". Find ways to make play fun right NOW, and then release to collectors later after letting the cool factor of the players run it's course.
but telcos are granted those monopoly perks in exchange for being fair about traffic so the public can make money. The only reason anybody was able to GET internet at home in the first place was that telcos were prohibited from banning connections to local phone numbers we used for our dial up modems. Imagine in 1995 if telcos made a 30 minute limit on non-voice phone calls. Where would we be now?
Or how about charging extra to dial a modem or fax than to DIAL a voice phone line.. the point is that they tried that ages ago, and the feds demanded they not do it. Internet connection is the "phone" service of the 21st century. How many phone companies block who you can CALL on your phone... hell you can call india or china if you got a number and there's a whole industry built around scamming people to call those places but they won't even challenge the calls unless you ask for your line to challenge that type... and there are 57 different types of long distance you have to ask to block individually.
They want to change the rules for internet so they can offer services they previously not allowed to. They were always blocked from offering news, and other phone-call services back in the day but want to try to get away with not only offering services.. but blocking competition on their lines. Imagine if we had the yellow pages but say calling a number of a towing company that wasn't in the book or was low-ranked resulted in your call going to the company that paid more for ads. It's quickly becoming obvious that the telcos are trying to pull that stunt under the congress critter's noses and the critters might catch on soon enough.
I think somebody explained if they can turn off bittorrent, they can selectively limit (or spy on) anything they want to. Many congress critters might not understand internet, but they understand the idea of open communications and what it means even if companies are starting with "bad guy". This could go either way though. On one hand it could put a stop to things like private cell only SMS and web as well as blocking services on DSL or Cable like bittorrent. On the other hand, it could be the "foot in the door" for regulations... the RIAA could step in and get a regulation for dangerous pirates and then it quietly becomes 100% legal and consumers argue about the details. That's how these big companies work, they know how to get a small concession as law and parlay that into making what they want "official" mandate for whatever they want to do. If somebody explains "net neutrality" as "reading your email" while transferring it then congress might get the hint. Bittorrent is a bad choice to argue about because it's more like bait to allow filtering than fight it.
considering SCO owes Novell large sums of money, it would seem that Novell should get any of that cash. Perhaps this is an exit plan from SCO to get sold off so the board gets money... which shouldn't happen. They destroyed the company, they should simply lose to Novell and get nothing in return, heck even make sure you get any company cars, laptops.. call the police to recover if necessary.
under the rules there's no penalty for the 5 day waiting period. The squatters drop them before they pay any money. Icann needs a $15 non-refundable restocking fee or something.
what if some of the "control center" IP addresses were honeypots to catch security researchers?
It's not easy if you don't have the drivers for the printer! These aren't publicly available, especially not in the configuration he stole. Even if the printer worked, he wouldn't have the codes to input the security information and it wouldn't look right.
.. like looking for the man with the missing left shoe.. only hi-tech.
This is a case where DRM and security thru obscurity work quite nicely. Sure, it's not "uncrackable" forever but if you limit the IDs to specific hardware then it's easy to watch the internet even for a few key files it would take to make the thing work. (forever doesn't matter because they change licenses every few years then the whole thing is a novelty.) Get your honeypot to the top of Google and watch people catch themselves. It's "old school" crime solving
These guys commute 3 hours every day.. they just can't go home. Hardly running for their lives but still serious because there's a high value of properties at stake.
That said it's too bad there's not some government stockpile of 10k to 20k people willing to help out and defend the city. If only there was some group of people dedicated to helping out after/during natural disasters.
HE is the Commander-in-chief.. if it's his army to start fights with, and pick who's "enemy combatants" it's most certainly a reflection of HIS leadership when these things happen. HE claims all sorts of rights that no other president has claimed so HE has chosen to be absolutely in charge. HE is the UNITARY executive and accordingly it's HIS personal job to fix these issues, bureaucrats act in HIS name with HIS authority.. if he felt strongly about this behavior from his subordinates HE would CHOOSE to fix it. The President has not done this privately or publicly (but he is worried about marines getting too many tattoos) so silence is considered approval.
Your title is correct, but you have it confused, either the President is in control of his executive branch and is giving these orders, or he has shirked his duty and allowed others to make decisions for him that should not be sanctioned. All of the Executive departments are either out of control of the president, or have been encouraged to act this way by his advisers. The width and breadth of this goes too far to place blame anywhere else but the man in the big chair.
no, Samba won't, because of this INFORMATION having any terms at all, they should not touch this with a 100 foot pole. The EU sold them out is what just happened. Samba already has BETTER documentation than Microsoft, they were advising the EU on what was necessary versus the line of BS Microsoft was trying to feed the court. Samba only needs about 50 pages of specs to make their implementation complete... this ruling could potentially open Samba up to legal problems because now M$ could claim Samba didn't buy or abide by the license.
Microsoft WON this case by wearing down the court, the EU didn't effect a punishment that will actually hurt M$ and the ruling will be twisted in M$ favor for years to come. The EU LOST the case!!!
The EU didn't win, Microsoft just did. The whole point of the EU's demands was that YOU owned the computer on your desk and Microsoft should provide you the APIs necessary to connect to YOUR computer from anything else you might want. By attaching ANY LICENSE to that basic right the EU sold out. Microsoft's $600M and 3 years of stalling bought them the right to tax anybody exercising their new "rights" under this judgment. The power to tax is the power to destroy. FLOSS can't use this because Microsoft managed to get the EU to honor it's PATENTS in court which was not previously allowed. Microsoft WON the case because they can still choose who gets to pay money, they can choose terms and they can choose how to calculate percent of sales. Projects like Samba based in the EU where reverse engineering is 100% legal and patents aren't allowed have just been SOLD OUT!!
but people are buying SEASON tickets, that's several thousand dollars up front... and your team may not do well and may be dead last. So the teams charge the price that season ticket holders will pay for a full season not knowing if the tickets will be worth money or not.
Without season ticket holders buying up 75%+ of seats in advance the teams couldn't pay their salaries for players. But when the teams do well, they don't like the ticket holders profiting from the risk they took buying 10 years worth of tickets ($10,000 - $20,000) to get a chance at seeing their team in playoff games. That's what the teams aren't seeing, is that some games may be worth $500, but the season ticket holders bear $10k+ worth of cost over time for this one chance at expensive tickets. Think of this more like Google that sold you shares at $137 but now doesn't want you to sell them at $600 because it's not "fair" to them if you do that.
they should sell the tickets at face value.. plus mailing tax, finder fee, etc.. just like the wonderful Ticketmaster does. After all, why don't normal ticket sellers get in trouble for doubling the price of a ticket (which they get below face cost for their margin in the first place). If large companies can sell for higher prices, why can't individuals that have a few extras?
except many people need to sell part of their tickets to afford the season tickets, or because they can't attend the game (or pay inflated prices for parking and beer). if demand is so bad, why aren't they adding seats, or having more games to get more people in? Football in particular is a joke. Baseball has 120+ games per season so the shear amount of games makes tickets to some available. Why is a football season so short? Why only a dozen games, why not twice a week.. work the man-whore-meat for their full million dollar salaries... Double the number of games, have multiple playoff games for post season.. there's lots of ways to add more tickets for multi-million dollar stadiums and get more play for the salaries they pay.
the major ball teams expect huge concessions from tax dollars to build their stadiums... taking tax money implies that it's a public function... if ball teams want to price things exclusively, then they can pay full price for stadiums, concession staff, police protection, etc, etc that get heavily subsidized by the "lowly" public.
stop using agriculture as a crutch for your argument.. if proper supply and demand was allowed to occur then farmers could charge whatever they want for food... kind of like the oil companies have done. Would you like farmers to stop growing food until the price goes up so they can make a profit, because you should be paying about 2-3 times as much if the market was truly "fair". Frankly, I don't like the idea of starving or paying 50%+ of my income for food because my neighborhood farmer lost all his crops in the drought this year. YES it has been happening, often, many farmers particularly vegetables and fruits have had TOTAL losses for more than half of the last 10 years and if it was a free market, we'd all be screwed.
they should have set aside iPhone and poured their efforts in to OSX Leopard when they had the Vista vs Leopard hype at it's peak. Steve talked it up, then not only didn't match Vista in January, or in May... but October... now Leopard will look like a "me-too" instead of the cutting edge release it is.
Apple is royally screwing the PR value of their actions lately. iPhone and Apple TV released "too little" after too much hype, releasing iPhone then dropping the prices with no notice and then bricking phones that added applications without RELEASING a proper SDK (the public already HAS one, it's childish to take it away.. Customer service 101 dude)
the tax on BLANK CDs makes some sense, but putting a fee on music downloads is like putting a fee on pre-recorded CDs because people might pirate them... that cost should be part of the label's price of selling you the files, not some government demanded fee. What's worse is that the fee goes to the copyright "board" and not the artist, so that's not like royalties they already get for music sales, but something extra going to the COMPANIES and the artists don't get.
once they start, and you comply with one request, you open yourself up to every request and they never stop. He'd spend all his future time complying with legal demands and not doing his hobby.
except it's not really a free economy because when the airlines royally screwed up and let their planes be hijacked, the feds didn't let them go out of business and executives go broke like should have happened. Instead the FAA makes all sorts of "regulations" that only make up for executive incompetence (wait for th FAA to make a "rule" about this soon) instead of allowing billion dollar companies to go under when they pull this stuff.
It's the same as the sweetheart deals they have with telcos to allow spying, or how they "punish" Microsoft, but are still their biggest customer.
Ownership rules are already in place. But a few years ago, they started allowing them to buy cross platform.. TV/radio/newspapers when they didn't used to. The market immediately consolidated as the big players simply put local shops out of business. Media collusion is also part of the problem. Mandatory payments that ASCAP/BMI and the TV networks demand pretty much rules out local ownership. The media use rules are so steep only big players can follow them all and pay the fees. Even if you could afford to buy the equipment with cash from your piggybank, unless you get "kickbacks" for running the media and required advertisements, it's almost impossible to make a radio/TV station make money because even if you produce 100% of your own media you still have royalty issues to deal with, it's that crazy. Why do you think even places like NPR have very little music and PBS rarely shows non-member funded productions? This rule is a step to roll back the problem, or at least change the scope a little bit. There has been a 35% ownership rule (expanded from 25%) for years, but then the media companies just bought up cross-media in it's place. As many stations in "out state" America serve large geographic areas, it's easy to lock up nearly all of the market.
the problem is that the myth evolved quite nicely in the 25 years up to the prequels... the Lucas shot the whole feel of the series down with the new movies. Considering much of what was in books, comics, games, etc was approved/influenced by Lucas directly fans expected more from the "official" films.
it doesn't, but it does fit into Henson's canon as many of the creatures were designed or implemented by Jim Henson's creature shop. Kermit and Ms. Piggy spawned Yoda...
You could quietly change the enrollment rules and "forget" to mail the rules out to them before the deadline (or post them in a celler) These guys won't remember to re-enroll when their term is up and you can winnow them out then. Just make sure any applications get "lost" if they don't show up to meetings. Then put some procedural rules into effect once the numbers are back down to keep this from happening again.
Also remember, XBox and Live is what Microsoft really wants Windows to be like.. that's the goal... Vista is the means. Just like XBox, they don't "owe" you to tell you what's going on.. like it or go else where!