I'd mark this insightful if I could. Great points. Even just looking at ad revenue would likely prove out a slight profit after the sale. Add the sale of data mining activities, etc and it should be profitable on paper plus the other bonuses you mentioned.
I hear some of these new Web 3.0 browsers with HTML 6 support have a NEW feature: XBML xTensible BookMark Language. They even put a button at the top to add any site your looking at to the list. Amazingly it already has support for categories, search and more! Super cool, post social - personal and private bookmarking at last.
They are all marketing companies, it's that or direct sales. Always has been always will be. The only alternative is government work or academia. Unfortunately neither the fed nor the UC system of your choice is really on the cutting edge the way your typical multi-billion dollar market driven enterprise can be. OTOH it's the start ups looking to get bought whom are on the bleeding edge, so just go start one and stop complaining. New tech and job security rarely go hand in hand.
Uh that's what this is supposed to fix. The labels dictate the terms. Not Apple. So Apple needs something big enough to justify paying the labels giant surcharges to let us all do it the sensible way. Google is working on the exact same thing BTW.
IMHO the patent office should get a royalty. Anything sold which affirms patent protection should pay a percentage royalty like fee to the patent office to support it's ability to be an authority on the validity of the patent and the patent process. The more lucrative the patent, the more it needs the patent offices support. Not only would this support the patent office, it would encourage them to validate patents effectively as an injunction on a patent which is lucrative would mean no royalty payments from that patent. This would also encourage not patenting as the inventor would have to automatically pay out some percentage from the first sale.
A HD movie on iTunes is 4.7GB down. One movie a day 30 days = 141GB. Now let's do some TV. 4 shows a day also HD ~1GB per. (22min for 3 and 1 40min show) that's another 4 GB * 30 = 120 GB and voila, 262 GB / month.
Not counting any YouTube, software, gaming, general Internet, skype or FaceTime, Flickr or anything else.
So if I drive out of state and pay local taxes on something, then pay use taxes, how do I get reimbursed for the local taxes? I don't recall that on the federal return as a deduction or on the state return.
Yes but unless the business has a presence in my state I did not buy it here, I bought it in whatever state they originate and merely shipped it to my state. I should have to pay the state tax of the originating state, not my state. That's how it works in the physical world. If I'm driving through somewhere I don't pay my state tax on gas or small goods at the gas station. I pay the tax on it at the counter with the purchase at the rate of the state I'm in.
Uh. So you used an $$$$ tool to do something a free tool could do as easily. 1 vs 5 min compared to hours of manual work. Also essentially you used Photoshops CLI scripting with some GUI icons visual icons. Yes PS can be scripted outside it's GUI. Python is a great language to script Adobe apps in (not official) or JavaScript for full access to the API.
Yes a CLI with some sort of graphic interface might be the way to go:)
In all seriousness text editors have useful tools such as templating (autocomplete with structure), syntax highlighting, and autosuggest (shows possible matches) even if there was no menu selection just a display of options. CLI could provide these as well. Even something like a typical tab complete with options list for more than just path completion (args completion).
This is a very good point. I wonder how market share will be when Apple updates again. If market share isn't amortized annually then it's not really relevant. Most of Apple's market is waiting to buy or bought a 6-9 months ago when the iPhone 4 was released. So sure you've got a giant surge of Android "market share" between the total eclipse that happens the weeks following iPhone releases.
Everything is an engineering problem. That food you eat, brought to you by engineering, electricity - engineering, children surviving birth - yes, engineering. Not all solutions are created equal. What is needed is one where the fissile material is completely consumed in the reaction (no waste) and the default is for the reaction to fail and cool off (no out of control reactions and no need for active cooling when there is no active reaction).
We may not have this solution. That does not mean we never will.
CD ripping is not copying however. There is no transfer of possession. No court is going to find a person guilty of infringement for using a copier to copy a book, a magazine, a newspaper, etc. that they already own without some proof that the intent is to resell the original or transfer it while retaining the copy - aka fair use. CD ripping (of CDs you purchased or own legally) is transcribing the media into a format usable by you the owner in the same way that photo-copying a manuscript for marking up with a highlighter or for readying more easily in a larger font is merely transcribing.
Copyright infringement only applies when the copy is transferred to another who does not own the original either in a hard format or in some cases even by broadcasting it to an audience or when the copy is in fact a replacement for the original which is then transferred to a new owner.
If I ran a business I'd be running to Apple for my entire ecosystem as much as possible. The happiest users at the company I work for all have OSX. The least happy all run Windows. Who will be more productive?
So a band you care about has an exclusive agreement? BTW there's nothing illegal about ripping your CDs and you can certainly buy those on Amazon. maybe you should boycott The Beatles for signing a digital downloads only agreement with the #1 music store in the world.
Ask yourself what shrimp feed on, then consider the motivation for shrimp farmers to throw back large numbers of dead fish right on top of their favorite locations.
It's not a question of whom has spectrum that is undeveloped. It more a question of whom is in fact actively developing improved uses for the unused spectrum. I find it unlikely that the broadcasters are planning to revolutionize our global economy with any extra spectrum they still control.
There is infinite supply of spectrum if you are willing to invest in equipment to use it that way. All frequencies can be split many many times. Data companies are actually more capable of this than broadcasters as the receivers are updated more frequently and consumers more willing to buy in if there is a reasonable improvement.
OTOH computers are just one abstraction layer after another. That is their whole purpose. They use electrons and transistors to represent anything we ask them to be - in the abstract. Numbers, counting beads, diagrams - all abstractions of abstractions.
To follow your line of thought then, this new fourth estate will too become corrupted. How and when is anyone's guess. Don't be surprised when it happens (if indeed it did not already as evidenced by the "press release" symptom.
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I'd mark this insightful if I could. Great points. Even just looking at ad revenue would likely prove out a slight profit after the sale. Add the sale of data mining activities, etc and it should be profitable on paper plus the other bonuses you mentioned.
I hear some of these new Web 3.0 browsers with HTML 6 support have a NEW feature: XBML xTensible BookMark Language. They even put a button at the top to add any site your looking at to the list. Amazingly it already has support for categories, search and more! Super cool, post social - personal and private bookmarking at last.
They are all marketing companies, it's that or direct sales. Always has been always will be. The only alternative is government work or academia. Unfortunately neither the fed nor the UC system of your choice is really on the cutting edge the way your typical multi-billion dollar market driven enterprise can be. OTOH it's the start ups looking to get bought whom are on the bleeding edge, so just go start one and stop complaining. New tech and job security rarely go hand in hand.
Uh that's what this is supposed to fix. The labels dictate the terms. Not Apple. So Apple needs something big enough to justify paying the labels giant surcharges to let us all do it the sensible way. Google is working on the exact same thing BTW.
IMHO the patent office should get a royalty. Anything sold which affirms patent protection should pay a percentage royalty like fee to the patent office to support it's ability to be an authority on the validity of the patent and the patent process. The more lucrative the patent, the more it needs the patent offices support. Not only would this support the patent office, it would encourage them to validate patents effectively as an injunction on a patent which is lucrative would mean no royalty payments from that patent. This would also encourage not patenting as the inventor would have to automatically pay out some percentage from the first sale.
A HD movie on iTunes is 4.7GB down. One movie a day 30 days = 141GB. Now let's do some TV. 4 shows a day also HD ~1GB per. (22min for 3 and 1 40min show) that's another 4 GB * 30 = 120 GB and voila, 262 GB / month.
Not counting any YouTube, software, gaming, general Internet, skype or FaceTime, Flickr or anything else.
So if I drive out of state and pay local taxes on something, then pay use taxes, how do I get reimbursed for the local taxes? I don't recall that on the federal return as a deduction or on the state return.
Yes but unless the business has a presence in my state I did not buy it here, I bought it in whatever state they originate and merely shipped it to my state. I should have to pay the state tax of the originating state, not my state. That's how it works in the physical world. If I'm driving through somewhere I don't pay my state tax on gas or small goods at the gas station. I pay the tax on it at the counter with the purchase at the rate of the state I'm in.
Uh. So you used an $$$$ tool to do something a free tool could do as easily. 1 vs 5 min compared to hours of manual work. Also essentially you used Photoshops CLI scripting with some GUI icons visual icons. Yes PS can be scripted outside it's GUI. Python is a great language to script Adobe apps in (not official) or JavaScript for full access to the API.
Yes a CLI with some sort of graphic interface might be the way to go :)
In all seriousness text editors have useful tools such as templating (autocomplete with structure), syntax highlighting, and autosuggest (shows possible matches) even if there was no menu selection just a display of options. CLI could provide these as well. Even something like a typical tab complete with options list for more than just path completion (args completion).
This is a very good point. I wonder how market share will be when Apple updates again. If market share isn't amortized annually then it's not really relevant. Most of Apple's market is waiting to buy or bought a 6-9 months ago when the iPhone 4 was released. So sure you've got a giant surge of Android "market share" between the total eclipse that happens the weeks following iPhone releases.
Installed base is a better number anyways.
Eclipse works great IMHO and BBedit which is the defacto standard editor on Macs still rocks.
Lenovo trackpad sucks, keyboard is so-so, doesn't have backlit keyboard, doesn't have quality screen, list continues.
Everything is an engineering problem. That food you eat, brought to you by engineering, electricity - engineering, children surviving birth - yes, engineering. Not all solutions are created equal. What is needed is one where the fissile material is completely consumed in the reaction (no waste) and the default is for the reaction to fail and cool off (no out of control reactions and no need for active cooling when there is no active reaction).
We may not have this solution. That does not mean we never will.
CD ripping is not copying however. There is no transfer of possession. No court is going to find a person guilty of infringement for using a copier to copy a book, a magazine, a newspaper, etc. that they already own without some proof that the intent is to resell the original or transfer it while retaining the copy - aka fair use. CD ripping (of CDs you purchased or own legally) is transcribing the media into a format usable by you the owner in the same way that photo-copying a manuscript for marking up with a highlighter or for readying more easily in a larger font is merely transcribing.
Copyright infringement only applies when the copy is transferred to another who does not own the original either in a hard format or in some cases even by broadcasting it to an audience or when the copy is in fact a replacement for the original which is then transferred to a new owner.
If I ran a business I'd be running to Apple for my entire ecosystem as much as possible. The happiest users at the company I work for all have OSX. The least happy all run Windows. Who will be more productive?
So a band you care about has an exclusive agreement? BTW there's nothing illegal about ripping your CDs and you can certainly buy those on Amazon. maybe you should boycott The Beatles for signing a digital downloads only agreement with the #1 music store in the world.
Ask yourself what shrimp feed on, then consider the motivation for shrimp farmers to throw back large numbers of dead fish right on top of their favorite locations.
It's not a question of whom has spectrum that is undeveloped. It more a question of whom is in fact actively developing improved uses for the unused spectrum. I find it unlikely that the broadcasters are planning to revolutionize our global economy with any extra spectrum they still control.
There is infinite supply of spectrum if you are willing to invest in equipment to use it that way. All frequencies can be split many many times. Data companies are actually more capable of this than broadcasters as the receivers are updated more frequently and consumers more willing to buy in if there is a reasonable improvement.
OTOH computers are just one abstraction layer after another. That is their whole purpose. They use electrons and transistors to represent anything we ask them to be - in the abstract. Numbers, counting beads, diagrams - all abstractions of abstractions.
350k for Jan - Mar or 3 months. times 4 = 1.4M * 0.35 = 490k but of course March is only half way, so round up.
Should have had someone in a room talking to friends also in the room as well. That would kill the other scores.
To follow your line of thought then, this new fourth estate will too become corrupted. How and when is anyone's guess. Don't be surprised when it happens (if indeed it did not already as evidenced by the "press release" symptom.
It's better because it's honest. The survey people are selling your info left and right and you have no say in whom gets it.