Actually what you're describing is known as a FREE MARKET.
Fortunately being an American you have an open invitation to travel on a work visa to many many countries in the world and provide your services.
If you choose not to excercise this amazing priviledge (a priviledge most Indian citizens do not enjoy IMA) then you must make do with what you can find locally.
Dude you've got to wait at least 2 years before posting black humor like this. I think it's funny just for the creative juxtapostion but it's still too early for some folks.
"According to Mr Allen, NASA was forced to send robots to the moon and faked the manned missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans."
So he thinks we had robotics capable of complex remote operation ON THE MOON in the period of 1969 - 1972? Now that's thinking optimistically...
"aunchBar provides lightning fast access to thousands of files, web-bookmarks, email-addresses and applications just by entering short abbreviations. Type OW to launch OmniWeb, AHN to open the "Apple Hot News" web page, BM to write an email to "Bob Miller" or HP01 to locate a folder named "Holiday Pictures 2001".
The set of items and their corresponding abbreviations don't need to be configured manually. LaunchBar uses a very powerful, adaptive abbreviation search algorithm that allows you to enter any thinkable abbreviation of the searched item.
To ensure a maximum of keyboard control, LaunchBar can be activated very quickly using a system wide hotkey. "
Back when this first came up in major news... june 2001:
This is in regards to the proposed plan to 'protect' copyrighted audio recordings distributed via CD.
I think you are making a big mistake, as other consumers will confirm for you when your products are either boycotted or wholesale pirated as a result of this 'protection'. Regardless of what you do to 'protect' this material individuals will make recordings and redistribute to the demanding public. (Any CD player that supports your new 'protection' is certain to have a standard AV port, a really easy way to re-record audio data.)
Ever hear of a thing called supply and demand? Nothing you do will stop this. The only thing this proposed plan will do is take away any control you currently have.
The biggest problem you have created for yourself is pricing albums at $15 - $30 each. Consumers feel as if they are paying enough to justify redistribution to close friends, etc.. especially when they may only really enjoy one or two of the songs on the album. Selling singles of hits isn't enough.. the radio usually plays those particular songs enough.
Your only rational recourse is to create a distribution channel which adds value to your products which consumers will pay for. Obviously they don't feel the current situation provides enough.
One idea is to create a subscription service, wherein the user would get to pick out several songs or albums from the genre they subscribe to. Consumers might prefer to have a complete set of songs from which to make their selection instead of the mixed and potentially corrupted selection they have from online sources. For this service you could charge a monthly rate dependent on the genre or number of downloads, etc. use a focus group or something to decide how to bill people..
I think you'll find that all people want is the selection of songs they get to listen to without the overhead of buying every CD that comes out. People also like the fact that when they 'get over' a particular song they don't feel like they wasted their money. Some music does 'get old' rather quickly.
What I'm saying is that you need to abstract the value you are selling from individual recordings or artists. Music is an ephemeral sensation... what gets me going one day may change the next, that's why radio works, they can adjust for the current environment. Not to mention that there is sooooo much music available now, compared with 20 years ago. Personally I don't have the time to listen to it all but I can listen to the song a friend recommends or sends to me via ftp etc... do you get it. We don't have time to go to the store to buy the cd that has one song we like and if we're going to take the time to buy it online we may as well spend the same amount of time finding a free copy.
By providing 'free' access to all the types of songs that I like you would make it alot easier and quicker for me to find the music I enjoy. How about charging me $15 a month for access to 'hip-hop' or 'rock' genres with a full search on title and author so I can grab 20 songs I really want to listen to that month. What's to keep me from keeping them and trading them? Nothing, but why would I want to go to all of that trouble when I have the convenience of my monthly selection online. Storing all that data is a real pain. Keeping track of which song is on which cd is also a pain. Programmers have spent lots of time trying to make free software to keep track of that stuff and none of them do it right. Plus, you get $15 monthly from me just so I have access to new titles, old titles, whatever, in a convenient and time saving system, w/o the overhead of storing them all, etc.
Okay, do you get it finally. We want service, selection; added value. We won't pay for anything less (ie: cd's with just the songs on them)
Best arguement so far, by far. Supply and Demand. we live in a capitalist nation, when society wants something and can see no harm coming from it (to society) then society will have it. If you want to make money off this you must meet societies' expectations or the people will find their satisfaction somewhere else.
As it is people already feel like they are 'paying' for P2P because they pay for the bandwidth. What other incentive do they have for broadband? We would all do just fine browsing text and a few images with a 52k modem. Rich media isn't just what corporations and media want to provide because the internet isn't Cable TV.
The RIAA still doesn't understand the medium they would like to exploit, hence their problems.
It's not really a Troll per se, just rumor mongering... a fine line I'll admit.
I engage in this sort of speculation on Mac rumor sites all the time (since Apple is the only new source there's only speculation until they release the info officially).
are "fast enough" for consumers, at least for the time being, and are looking at a PC marketplace in the near future where MOST (typical users) will be satisfied with their PC experience for several years to come. With a shrinking market for NEW PC cpus they should logically look elsewhere to sell their product, elsewhere being other consumer markets, whatever they may be.
Well I agree with you completely but also have to say that Mac Users would not be worse off if Windows didn't exist... shit man we'd have some damn games to play....;-p
MacBidouille has posted another AMD/Apple rumor. English Translation:
I have just received some rumors you will like. Of course they're from an anonymous yet reliable source:
- Apple will start using 64 bit CPU during the following months
- The processor will probably be made by AMD rather than by IBM, the former having a much higher production capacity.
It should be noted that AMD's 64 bit proc for PCs is almost ready.
The processor has the advantage of being compatible with 32 bit busses.
ya gotta wonder with all the rumors of Apple sending out AMD boxes running OS X if all the rumors were wrong to conclude x86 was involved at all....
Maybe AMD is 'branching out' by manufacturing PPC chips for Apple. No evidence is conclusive but this will definitely add fuel to the rumor fire around the AMD/Apple connection.
Nope cause bullets are traveling very very very slow compared to the speeds these are supposedly traveling, remember they say something like 250 miles per SECOND not per hour.
This would go through you soo fast your body wouldn't even have a chance to react much less explode, etc. The internal combustion thing is the only possibility here for damage... just from the shere amount of friction heat generated as it passed through you.
Linux users know all about their bugs. They are the ones fixing them. Bugs in proprietary software are more interesting/important because they acknowledge commercial vendors inability to get working code out the door before profiting from it, a despicable but almost always necessary evil (if you're commercial and proprietary, that is).
1. Get an idea for useful softwaree 2. Write a lot of working but buggy code 3. ?????? 4. Profit
Then later when you can rest assured that the investors or collectors are happy...
5. Fix bugs
And if you're a monopoly...
6. Release bug-free "Upgrade" and charge more money.
"Congress is powerless to change the constitution."
I wish this were so. De facto it may be but in Du Jour practice we have these lovely things called Amendments (hence the 4rth Am.) which can add and subtract from the content of The Constitution. They may not be able to reword the title of the Article and/or Amendments (though they can certainly ratify a repeal), but they most definitely can reword the method of recognizing and implementing them.
The rest of your statement is sound. A simple contradiction in the beginning.
Coffee with or without the caffeine contains significant numbers of expectorant and diuretic alkaloids, ie: oils and along with caffeine these are known to strip out calcium from the body... calcium being the major nerve insulator with it's major contribution being the meyelin sheath surrounding nerve bundles. So if you drink a lot of this stuff that sucks off calcium from your nerve bundles you end up with 'twitchy' nerves that arn't insulated enough and start 'cross-talking' and causing lots of electrical feedback loops/shorts......kind of like when you play the bass too loud for too long on unprotected audio cables (oxidation), the signal gets a little scratchy and fuzzy.
Mail.app will queue your outbound mail in a standard way... throws them in to the 'Out' box and will send them first opportunity. You could also try out eudora which has all kinds of nifty extras.
Don't forget to set up rules in Mail.app for cc to yourself or whatever. Finally there are lots of 'hidden' features to Mail... that are standard on other mail progs... like bcc, that you just have to turn on via one of the menus.
I see it as a non-concern. This is an impulse buy gimmick for college students who can pay for movies on their daddies credit card and then view them on their parent purchased PC. The rest of us own a DVD player and a TV (or two) and can watch movies like civilized human beings (with rewind, fast forward, camera angles, extra content, scene browsing, subtitles, etc.).
VOD = Pr0nOD and that's the only market it will ever be king of. Why? People will try out VOD for real movies and find out it is cheap and lacks quality and/or options, which again is why Pr0n will be king --> match made in heaven.
Preach it brother... if your PC is the BEST way for you to watch a movie, well, more power to you. Pay the same price as a DVD rental and get a crappy picture/ sound track and then slap yourself when you realize that you're also paying for the bandwidth!
When they can broadcast HiDef video on demand to my broadband enabled HiDef Cinema screen, then I'll pay. Til then I'd rather BUY the DVD for 9.99 two weeks after it hits rental. Or maybe even see it in a THEATRE where it supposed to be viewed!
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Actually what you're describing is known as a FREE MARKET.
Fortunately being an American you have an open invitation to travel on a work visa to many many countries in the world and provide your services.
If you choose not to excercise this amazing priviledge (a priviledge most Indian citizens do not enjoy IMA) then you must make do with what you can find locally.
Thanks for rehashing all of the INSIGHTFUL and INTERESTING posts from ALL of the previous slashdot stories on Massive(TM)
Dude you've got to wait at least 2 years before posting black humor like this. I think it's funny just for the creative juxtapostion but it's still too early for some folks.
"According to Mr Allen, NASA was forced to send robots to the moon and faked the manned missions because radiation levels in space were lethal to humans."
So he thinks we had robotics capable of complex remote operation ON THE MOON in the period of 1969 - 1972? Now that's thinking optimistically...
Get yourself this >>>> Launchbar
Note: only for OS X.
"aunchBar provides lightning fast access to thousands of files, web-bookmarks, email-addresses and applications just by entering short abbreviations. Type OW to launch OmniWeb, AHN to open the "Apple Hot News" web page, BM to write an email to "Bob Miller" or HP01 to locate a folder named "Holiday Pictures 2001".
The set of items and their corresponding abbreviations don't need to be configured manually. LaunchBar uses a very powerful, adaptive abbreviation search algorithm that allows you to enter any thinkable abbreviation of the searched item.
To ensure a maximum of keyboard control, LaunchBar can be activated very quickly using a system wide hotkey. "
Back when this first came up in major news... june 2001:
This is in regards to the proposed plan to 'protect' copyrighted audio recordings distributed via CD.
I think you are making a big mistake, as other consumers will confirm for you when your products are either boycotted or wholesale pirated as a result of this 'protection'. Regardless of what you do to 'protect' this material individuals will make recordings and redistribute to the demanding public. (Any CD player that supports your new 'protection' is certain to have a standard AV port, a really easy way to re-record audio data.)
Ever hear of a thing called supply and demand? Nothing you do will stop this. The only thing this proposed plan will do is take away any control you currently have.
The biggest problem you have created for yourself is pricing albums at $15 - $30 each. Consumers feel as if they are paying enough to justify redistribution to close friends, etc.. especially when they may only really enjoy one or two of the songs on the album. Selling singles of hits isn't enough.. the radio usually plays those particular songs enough.
Your only rational recourse is to create a distribution channel which adds value to your products which consumers will pay for. Obviously they don't feel the current situation provides enough.
One idea is to create a subscription service, wherein the user would get to pick out several songs or albums from the genre they subscribe to. Consumers might prefer to have a complete set of songs from which to make their selection instead of the mixed and potentially corrupted selection they have from online sources. For this service you could charge a monthly rate dependent on the genre or number of downloads, etc. use a focus group or something to decide how to bill people..
I think you'll find that all people want is the selection of songs they get to listen to without the overhead of buying every CD that comes out. People also like the fact that when they 'get over' a particular song they don't feel like they wasted their money. Some music does 'get old' rather quickly.
What I'm saying is that you need to abstract the value you are selling from individual recordings or artists. Music is an ephemeral sensation... what gets me going one day may change the next, that's why radio works, they can adjust for the current environment. Not to mention that there is sooooo much music available now, compared with 20 years ago. Personally I don't have the time to listen to it all but I can listen to the song a friend recommends or sends to me via ftp etc... do you get it. We don't have time to go to the store to buy the cd that has one song we like and if we're going to take the time to buy it online we may as well spend the same amount of time finding a free copy.
By providing 'free' access to all the types of songs that I like you would make it alot easier and quicker for me to find the music I enjoy. How about charging me $15 a month for access to 'hip-hop' or 'rock' genres with a full search on title and author so I can grab 20 songs I really want to listen to that month. What's to keep me from keeping them and trading them? Nothing, but why would I want to go to all of that trouble when I have the convenience of my monthly selection online. Storing all that data is a real pain. Keeping track of which song is on which cd is also a pain. Programmers have spent lots of time trying to make free software to keep track of that stuff and none of them do it right. Plus, you get $15 monthly from me just so I have access to new titles, old titles, whatever, in a convenient and time saving system, w/o the overhead of storing them all, etc.
Okay, do you get it finally. We want service, selection; added value. We won't pay for anything less (ie: cd's with just the songs on them)
Sincerely,
Best arguement so far, by far. Supply and Demand. we live in a capitalist nation, when society wants something and can see no harm coming from it (to society) then society will have it. If you want to make money off this you must meet societies' expectations or the people will find their satisfaction somewhere else.
As it is people already feel like they are 'paying' for P2P because they pay for the bandwidth. What other incentive do they have for broadband? We would all do just fine browsing text and a few images with a 52k modem. Rich media isn't just what corporations and media want to provide because the internet isn't Cable TV.
The RIAA still doesn't understand the medium they would like to exploit, hence their problems.
It's not really a Troll per se, just rumor mongering... a fine line I'll admit.
I engage in this sort of speculation on Mac rumor sites all the time (since Apple is the only new source there's only speculation until they release the info officially).
are "fast enough" for consumers, at least for the time being, and are looking at a PC marketplace in the near future where MOST (typical users) will be satisfied with their PC experience for several years to come. With a shrinking market for NEW PC cpus they should logically look elsewhere to sell their product, elsewhere being other consumer markets, whatever they may be.
Well I agree with you completely but also have to say that Mac Users would not be worse off if Windows didn't exist... shit man we'd have some damn games to play.... ;-p
Text of the link for those too lazy to click...
"rumors
MacBidouille has posted another AMD/Apple rumor. English Translation:
I have just received some rumors you will like. Of course they're from an anonymous yet reliable source:
- Apple will start using 64 bit CPU during the following months
- The processor will probably be made by AMD rather than by IBM, the former having a much higher production capacity.
It should be noted that AMD's 64 bit proc for PCs is almost ready.
The processor has the advantage of being compatible with 32 bit busses.
So an x86 proc in a Mac or a PPC by AMD? "
BTW here's a link to one of the rumors....
AMD and Apple Rumors Part II
ya gotta wonder with all the rumors of Apple sending out AMD boxes running OS X if all the rumors were wrong to conclude x86 was involved at all....
Maybe AMD is 'branching out' by manufacturing PPC chips for Apple. No evidence is conclusive but this will definitely add fuel to the rumor fire around the AMD/Apple connection.
"And I'm not a neurosurgeon, I just play one on TV."
Thanks for the new sig =p
Nope cause bullets are traveling very very very slow compared to the speeds these are supposedly traveling, remember they say something like 250 miles per SECOND not per hour.
This would go through you soo fast your body wouldn't even have a chance to react much less explode, etc. The internal combustion thing is the only possibility here for damage... just from the shere amount of friction heat generated as it passed through you.
You really must be dislexic sydlexic....
Linux users know all about their bugs. They are the ones fixing them. Bugs in proprietary software are more interesting/important because they acknowledge commercial vendors inability to get working code out the door before profiting from it, a despicable but almost always necessary evil (if you're commercial and proprietary, that is).
1. Get an idea for useful softwaree
2. Write a lot of working but buggy code
3. ??????
4. Profit
Then later when you can rest assured that the investors or collectors are happy...
5. Fix bugs
And if you're a monopoly...
6. Release bug-free "Upgrade" and charge more money.
"Congress is powerless to change the constitution."
I wish this were so. De facto it may be but in Du Jour practice we have these lovely things called Amendments (hence the 4rth Am.) which can add and subtract from the content of The Constitution. They may not be able to reword the title of the Article and/or Amendments (though they can certainly ratify a repeal), but they most definitely can reword the method of recognizing and implementing them.
The rest of your statement is sound. A simple contradiction in the beginning.
This is a REALLY GOOD(TM) idea.
Coffee with or without the caffeine contains significant numbers of expectorant and diuretic alkaloids, ie: oils and along with caffeine these are known to strip out calcium from the body... calcium being the major nerve insulator with it's major contribution being the meyelin sheath surrounding nerve bundles. So if you drink a lot of this stuff that sucks off calcium from your nerve bundles you end up with 'twitchy' nerves that arn't insulated enough and start 'cross-talking' and causing lots of electrical feedback loops/shorts... ...kind of like when you play the bass too loud for too long on unprotected audio cables (oxidation), the signal gets a little scratchy and fuzzy.
You can use cron jobs to automate sendmail stuff too.. just like any other *nix. Of course there are probably more elegant ways to do it.
Mail.app will queue your outbound mail in a standard way... throws them in to the 'Out' box and will send them first opportunity. You could also try out eudora which has all kinds of nifty extras.
Don't forget to set up rules in Mail.app for cc to yourself or whatever. Finally there are lots of 'hidden' features to Mail... that are standard on other mail progs... like bcc, that you just have to turn on via one of the menus.
Here's a few links to help out those who want to set up sendamil correctly (with bind et al thrown in for good measure).
0 20 825230925806
a r/
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20
Pretty basic, but a quick start...
http://www.sial.org/sendmail/macosx/8.12.2-jagu
More technical and in depth for those who know and care.
And of course you can also google for "sendmail os x 10.2" like I did and find other resources.
I see it as a non-concern. This is an impulse buy gimmick for college students who can pay for movies on their daddies credit card and then view them on their parent purchased PC. The rest of us own a DVD player and a TV (or two) and can watch movies like civilized human beings (with rewind, fast forward, camera angles, extra content, scene browsing, subtitles, etc.).
VOD = Pr0nOD and that's the only market it will ever be king of. Why? People will try out VOD for real movies and find out it is cheap and lacks quality and/or options, which again is why Pr0n will be king --> match made in heaven.
Preach it brother... if your PC is the BEST way for you to watch a movie, well, more power to you. Pay the same price as a DVD rental and get a crappy picture/ sound track and then slap yourself when you realize that you're also paying for the bandwidth!
When they can broadcast HiDef video on demand to my broadband enabled HiDef Cinema screen, then I'll pay. Til then I'd rather BUY the DVD for 9.99 two weeks after it hits rental. Or maybe even see it in a THEATRE where it supposed to be viewed!