Yes, but, these are the same analysts who predicted the GameCube's price drop, the PS2 price drop, and the XBox price drop. They've done well before, and they will probably be spot on about this one too. Now, as for the Xbox 2 in 2005, I think they'd have to have some serious balls to try and do that, but I wouldn't put it past them.
From the article: "The problem is, if the cops take an interest in you while you're doing something like this, the only way to get out of the situation is to admit that you're a dork," says MWD. "I'd almost rather be taken back to the station."
How many of you would rather go to jail than admit you're a dork? Not I, I figure it might come in handy some day.
In October of 2003, the oldest person in the world died at 116 years of age. This BBC article discusses that one of the things she did was to stay awake for 2 days, and then sleep for 2 days. I don't know if this is any indication of her ability to live long, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I recently installed Mandrake that uses the 2.6 kernel and I was blown away. I connected my digital camera and it popped open a window that had all the pictures in there. My RAID, which has never worked in linux before, worked just fine. My mp3 player was able to run right out of the box. This is in stark contrast to Windows XP, in which I had to get online and find the drivers in Japanese. Mandrake is the distro that will get on desktops sooner than later.
This won't happen becuase a group of people could all pitch in one cent and get unlimited downloads. There's not much to stop it as long as they don't try to all log in at once.
However, here in the US, we're starting to see new CDs under 10 dollars. I just picked up a Coldplay CD for 9 bucks (US of course). I find I only buy CDs now for the liner notes -- sometimes there are some good bits that are thrown in them.
All that to say, if you're going to offer an album for download, you'll have to do better than 10-12 dollars. Maybe 6-8?
my girlfriend is an avid gamer and for her birthday i bought her a 256 mb video card. So, it has dual 400 mhz processor and 256 mb of ram. This is more than the 700 mhz w/ 128 mb of ram on my main computer!! *sigh* It's a good thing I love her...
I don't really think you could call your argument an economic discussion but more of a political or social argument. Also, there will always be a country begging to be whored out. Look at Mexico, as soon as their social and political system started working out better, that meant prices went higher and so companies have moved a lot of manufacturing to other countries that will open wide to American manufacturing.
The biggest problem is that our economic system demands low prices, and as such, we disregard social issues and instead focus on the price. If you opened a store that marketed itself as not being made by slave labour and it was environmentally friendly but cost 40% more, you'd lose to the lower priced companies.
This is why politics has to come in and meddle in the economic affairs -- but we all know that this can backfire. So, I think you may have some good points about social injustice, but that is not a viable argument in the face of millions of consumers.
Do you think that this problem is representative of the language? e.g. Perl is more efficient than PHP. Or is this going about it all wrong because of the specialisation of programming? Perhaps a series of tests consisting of different types of problems would be possible?
I'd kick the Lego angel in the nads, make sure "they" weren't looking, and then see if I could have done a better job. All in the name of preparation of course...
My mom is a corporate sociologist, and she works with companies that have outsourced to other countries to help communication flow between the often very different cultures. One of the biggest issues she's found with software outsourcing in Asia is that many of those programmers will only do what they're told, without any personal input and doing whatever the outsourcer wanted regardless of the logic of it.
This can frustrate both ends, as the programmer thinks the stuff sucks, but keeps quiet because that's how it's done in his culture, and the boss is upset because the stuff comes back just like he said it, but it sucks. This can then lead to the outsourcing company being fired and lost productivity, etc.
Another thing is that in the Business section, there are a lot of charts and pictures of analysts. This could mean anything -- earnings reports, Dow crashing, Yield-Earnings ratios, etc. Or it could be an editorial about the way charts can lie to you. Pictures don't really work all the time...
You have no idea about college networks do you? Recent statistics (at the bottom) have shown that nearly 80% of a typical campus network traffic is filesharing. If that can be curbed, then the network will become more stable and be able to handle traffic better. This also means less resources needed which translates directly into money.
So the money saved by reducing network traffic is probably more than the 130,000 that this deal requires of the school. Furthermore, I'm sure Napster charged them less than that because it opens the door to other schools. So, the school is banking on less money spent on IT, better protection against the RIAA, and gets great publicity as a "technologically advanced" school. It's more like Penn State is saving money by giving it's students a free lunch.
At my school Microsoft Office 2003 is only 10 dollars. Windows XP is 5 dollars. It's a crazy license and no one has any need to use an open-source office or operating system. Pretty interesting strategy by Microsoft.
I have to comment and say that I use Opera and it popped up with a message box saying that I was connecting to the address 1109654166 using the Username kuro5hin.org and was I sure of that?
So you're answer is for the little guys to stand united right? Does not deja vu strike you at this very moment? Read this and tell me this is not exactly what you were trying to say. Communism has been tried before, and it will not prevail simply because of the nature of humans. Perhaps this is a better K5 discussion, but humans are inherently selfish and ethno-centric.
Perhaps you are wanting to say "look at linux, the product of many that is inherently better." I will respond by asking you to look at Mandrake, SuSe, and Red Hat. All of them are companies, smaller than the ones you hate, but companies nonetheless.
And you hate politics and politicians who have no regard for a small few? Would you like it if they always had regard for the minority? Think about it, there is a minority of people who would like kiddie porn to be legal. There is a minority that would like us to put a military base on the moon. If the minority were represented all the time, no decisions could be effectively made, and if they were, it would only be the minority of those who have power.
Do you dislike your representative? Campaign to have them removed. Do you dislike a certain law that might be passed? Campaign to have it killed. The key is that it is all in your hands. The louder noise you make, the more people will listten. Indeed, for you to be spitting drivel out in any way requires you to make an action to back it up -- something that is unique in our modern world. It's never been brighter because the little guy can raise some hell.
Linux is not created for one user. It cannot, and should not, focus on one goal, as the uses of linux are so varied. It would be like Ford saying they are going to build all their cars with carbon-fibre, it may be cool for some of their cars, but I wouldn't want to drive an F-150 made of the stuff.
Just look at the different distros available: Mandrake is very user-friendly, Slackware less so. That's not the point of Slackware, but it is the point of Mandrake. So, we don't keep a single standard to leave room for everyone and everything.
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Yes, but, these are the same analysts who predicted the GameCube's price drop, the PS2 price drop, and the XBox price drop. They've done well before, and they will probably be spot on about this one too. Now, as for the Xbox 2 in 2005, I think they'd have to have some serious balls to try and do that, but I wouldn't put it past them.
How many of you would rather go to jail than admit you're a dork? Not I, I figure it might come in handy some day.
In October of 2003, the oldest person in the world died at 116 years of age. This BBC article discusses that one of the things she did was to stay awake for 2 days, and then sleep for 2 days. I don't know if this is any indication of her ability to live long, but it's interesting nonetheless.
I recently installed Mandrake that uses the 2.6 kernel and I was blown away. I connected my digital camera and it popped open a window that had all the pictures in there. My RAID, which has never worked in linux before, worked just fine. My mp3 player was able to run right out of the box. This is in stark contrast to Windows XP, in which I had to get online and find the drivers in Japanese. Mandrake is the distro that will get on desktops sooner than later.
No, it's because he was SCSI...
Not Found /scooper2/winamp50_full.exe was not found on this server.
The requested URL
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
This won't happen becuase a group of people could all pitch in one cent and get unlimited downloads. There's not much to stop it as long as they don't try to all log in at once.
All that to say, if you're going to offer an album for download, you'll have to do better than 10-12 dollars. Maybe 6-8?
my girlfriend is an avid gamer and for her birthday i bought her a 256 mb video card. So, it has dual 400 mhz processor and 256 mb of ram. This is more than the 700 mhz w/ 128 mb of ram on my main computer!! *sigh* It's a good thing I love her...
What is the name of the worm?
That'd certainly create a job market for a lot of IT people here in the States -- kind of like a private eye.
The biggest problem is that our economic system demands low prices, and as such, we disregard social issues and instead focus on the price. If you opened a store that marketed itself as not being made by slave labour and it was environmentally friendly but cost 40% more, you'd lose to the lower priced companies.
This is why politics has to come in and meddle in the economic affairs -- but we all know that this can backfire. So, I think you may have some good points about social injustice, but that is not a viable argument in the face of millions of consumers.
Do you think that this problem is representative of the language? e.g. Perl is more efficient than PHP. Or is this going about it all wrong because of the specialisation of programming? Perhaps a series of tests consisting of different types of problems would be possible?
I'd kick the Lego angel in the nads, make sure "they" weren't looking, and then see if I could have done a better job. All in the name of preparation of course...
Or simply link to the Google cache?
I have a PDA and when I come home and it syncs up, it sends all the emails I've written during the day. Am I a prime target now?
We don't care how it's supposed to be, it looks right.
Emphasis added.
This can frustrate both ends, as the programmer thinks the stuff sucks, but keeps quiet because that's how it's done in his culture, and the boss is upset because the stuff comes back just like he said it, but it sucks. This can then lead to the outsourcing company being fired and lost productivity, etc.
Can you copy and paste from one to the other? I know that's a pretty hard thing to do with linux...
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Another thing is that in the Business section, there are a lot of charts and pictures of analysts. This could mean anything -- earnings reports, Dow crashing, Yield-Earnings ratios, etc. Or it could be an editorial about the way charts can lie to you. Pictures don't really work all the time...
So the money saved by reducing network traffic is probably more than the 130,000 that this deal requires of the school. Furthermore, I'm sure Napster charged them less than that because it opens the door to other schools. So, the school is banking on less money spent on IT, better protection against the RIAA, and gets great publicity as a "technologically advanced" school. It's more like Penn State is saving money by giving it's students a free lunch.
At my school Microsoft Office 2003 is only 10 dollars. Windows XP is 5 dollars. It's a crazy license and no one has any need to use an open-source office or operating system. Pretty interesting strategy by Microsoft.
Security in a browser does happen...
Perhaps you are wanting to say "look at linux, the product of many that is inherently better." I will respond by asking you to look at Mandrake, SuSe, and Red Hat. All of them are companies, smaller than the ones you hate, but companies nonetheless.
And you hate politics and politicians who have no regard for a small few? Would you like it if they always had regard for the minority? Think about it, there is a minority of people who would like kiddie porn to be legal. There is a minority that would like us to put a military base on the moon. If the minority were represented all the time, no decisions could be effectively made, and if they were, it would only be the minority of those who have power.
Do you dislike your representative? Campaign to have them removed. Do you dislike a certain law that might be passed? Campaign to have it killed. The key is that it is all in your hands. The louder noise you make, the more people will listten. Indeed, for you to be spitting drivel out in any way requires you to make an action to back it up -- something that is unique in our modern world. It's never been brighter because the little guy can raise some hell.
Just look at the different distros available: Mandrake is very user-friendly, Slackware less so. That's not the point of Slackware, but it is the point of Mandrake. So, we don't keep a single standard to leave room for everyone and everything.