Or I could have just looked under "help" and seen that I really DON'T trust the methodology. It's quite limited, and there is no stated error about random distribution of survey points. (i.e. if they are examinging the OSDL web sites that may overrepresnet firefox for instance)
I hate to sound like a hater, but I couldn't find their survey methodology anywhere. The site I know and whose methodology I know (I didn't say trust) doesn't paint quite as rosy of a picture.
She's not in Jail. That's freedom of speech. The first ammendment is your protection from government, not from other citizens. A cash award means a civil suit.
The plaintiff summed it up best. "The jury determined this was a significant enough issue. It's not just somebody's feelings are hurt; it's somebody's reputation is ruined."
Nukes are FAR more valuable than their raw destructive power.
In the 60's, the soviet union issued a statement saying that they will NEVER use nukes FIRST, expecting us to reply in kind. We said "thanks, we appreciate that!" The *threat* of tactical nuclear attack on soviet forces coming through east germany to the west prevented WWIII.
1990, Pakistan and india's relations reach a boiling point. India tests a bomb, then pakistan tests a bomb. The implied threat has prevented a conventional war.
Why is Israel still on the map? Sure, they are tough SOBs, and the US has their back, but they are seriously outnumbered in the middle east. The threat of nuclear counter-attack is enough to prevent the arab world from all ganging up on them.
My point is that Nuclear weapons ARE useful, especially as a guarantor of security. (what paranoid-ass Kim Chong-il wants the most) Not only have nukes ended a war (WWII) but they are really good at preventing one from starting. North Korea doesn't want to nuke the US, they want to nuke themselves if we start pouring across the border.
It really does. More people in korea play video games than play soccer. These "rockstar" gamers were ordinary people that had a talent. I can't go play football with Peyton Manning, and if I did, I would get creamed. I CAN go play quake with these guys, and be (a little bit) competitive. I can talk to them online, I can make friends with them online. This makes more sense than worshipping a soccer player that doesn't realize (or care that) you exist.
...kids spent no more than four hours per day in front of the console or TV
Who are these people that let their kids (average) four hours per night? I've gone on 10 hour gaming benders, it happens, but my god averaging four hours a day is a LOT of gaming.
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 has a scheduler that can handle more than 80. It's written as a network scheduler, but seems like it would be adaptable to a single system.
Let's not fool ourselves, open source software takes talented people to run, not the normal graduates of 6-week "learn-computers-fast-to-make-money.com" windows training that is the mainstay of price thrifty contractors that make up the entire backbone of all DOD IT departments. I'm sure there are talented admins in the DOD, I've met some, but they are the exception rather than the rule. "Best and Brightest need not apply"
I got in an arguement about this recently. What does an enterprise mac system look like? What software do you run that makes these macs different from home PCs? (this is ignorance, not mac bashing) Is there an equivalant administrative construct to a windows domain? Do you just use the same handlers as BSD? I've done quite a bit of enterprise work, but I've never seen a mac integrated with an enterprise architecture.
it is clear that users prefer DRM-free music, and are willing to pay for it and take the trouble to rip it
TFA certainly doesn't back up this kind of claim. I'm not casting doubt on the claim itself, but this study doesn't support it. There are plenty of reasons why someone wouldn't want to use iTMS aside from DRM.
it's expensive
payment is a hassle
no feeling of "ownership" of the music
it won't play in your car
you can hear singles on the radio, but can't justify spending on the b-sides
you don't get the liner notes.
iPods are built crappy and break easy, CDs are tough
something like half of all iPod owners haven't used them in the last year anyway
My point is, let's not jump to conclusions about DRM's market palettability. ANY service is a tough sell, and something as esoteric as music just doesn't have a mental "value" like something physical that comes in a box.
The claim was that of capitalist system of financial incentives-to-produce is a time-tested and irrefutable fact. I made no claims about DRM. In fact, theft of music and movies is almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Economic espionage (theft of IP) is estimated to cost the USA between 250 and 300 billion dollars per year, plus peoples lives. (it's a dangerous game) The entire music industry is valued around 7 billion per year. IP must be protected. Congress understands this, but has chosen to focus their attention in the wrong places as directed by the people with the money. (a sad state of affairs)
Showers or a swimming pool are a good way to go, the other is to just be quick about it and don't go near any Sun equipment. We tried cooking an egg on a v880. It was delicious, but a bit overdone.
You obviously didn't think this all the way through. Cold is good for discreet sex. The last thing you want is to go back to work all sweaty. It's a dead give-away.
Learning to communicate effectively is important, but a twelve year old needs to learn how to think critically and solve problems before they learn to be a sales-weasel. Aside from that, powerpoint is a terrible communication medium, with no more educational value than the clear plastic cover I used to put on my papers to get a better grade.
Nothing initates you into a social group like a good ol' fashion naked romp in the server room with the alpha male. If you're attached and monogamous, (or they're ugly) then perhaps you should go for (or set up) a happy-hour or play dungeons and dragons or whatever the "clique" does. IT guys are typically nerds with poor social skills, have a party at your house with some of your single friends.
I found myself in the same spot. There is however a solution that has worked nicely for me. Gamefly is a netflix-esque service for games. I think a 1-at-a-time plan is like $15 month. Beats the heck out of constantly buying new games that will likely suck, or paying blockbuster $9 to rent one of their 15 games. My wife and I are rather particular about our games, and it's great to play them for a bit and be done with them.
Example: The Russian Oil sector. In soviet times it had a dilapidated, underinvested infrastructure and was manages soley by Rosneft. With privatization came Lukoil, Yukos, TNK, etc. They dumped billions into the system to make it as modern of an operation as anywhere in the world. As a result, Russia now has a stable economy based primarily on amazing growth in the oil sector. The weak link in the chain is still transneft (state owned pipeline monopoly) which has no profit motivation and as such does not invest back into the system. (and it a political weapon)
Counter Example:The US Welfare system. In 1996 the welfare reform act of 1996 made people with no economic incentive to work get jobs or lose benefits. From the Wikipedia "The consequences of welfare reform have been dramatic. Welfare rolls (the number of people receiving payments) dropped significantly (57%) in the years since passage of the bill. Child poverty rates for African Americans have dropped the sharpest since statistics began to be tallied in the 1960s."
At risk of being labeled a heretic, I'm (in concept) pro-DRM. The #1 export of the United States is Intellectual Property. A primary tenet of capitalist dogma is that if we don't have a way to protect and profit off of it, there will be less of an incentive to create it, thus less will be created and it will be of a lower quality. It's not just theory, it actually happens. Look at any large scale industry privatization over the last 30 years.
While I appreciate DRM on a macroeconomic level, I have serious problems with it as a consumer, and as such I totally recognize the appeal of DRM-free music as a consumer. What we need is a new social contract with music producers. It used to be that when I bought a CD, I (for all intents and purposes) owned the music. I could transport that music with me and play it anywhere I wanted. In the age of DRM they try to convince me that I own a license to play that music, but only on the one player. That's bullcrap. If I am buying a license, then I need to be able to get to that licensed material anywhere. The industry needs to create a common standard so that my digital music can go in my home theater, my iPod, my car, my friend's house or wherever else I might want it. At the moment, there is no consumer benefit to DRM protected media. That's wrong.
If everybody in America turned off that 60 watt bulb, we would save a billion acres of rainforest and a thousand humpback whales. Isn't it just easier to turn off the freaking lights where you aren't using them?
"your games don't look that much better than they did at the beginning"
Well that's a load of crap. Look at gran turismo 1 vs gran turismo 2 for PS1. How about madden 2000 vs madden 2005? for PS2? Even in the old school mega man 1 visually sucked compared to mega man 4. As people develop for a platform they get better at it. Even in Xbox's first year, games have gotten WORLDS better. (visually)
I am appointing myself spokesman for all drivers everywhere. I'm going to phrase this question bluntly to get my point across.
If you don't trust your child to drive safely, WHY ARE YOU LETTING THEM DRIVE ALONE? Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't care if your kid careens off of a cliff and dies in a ball of fire. That however is FAR less likely than them careening into ME, and I do care about me. You know your kids best. If they shouldn't be driving (alone) PLEASE DONT LET THEM.
I can say that I have been on the customer side of this crappy equation, and it pisses me off. If their expectations were too high, then you need to reign in your sales-weasel that promised them the moon and the stars. If they aren't getting the functionality that can reasonably be expected, then you need to fix your software. In my case, the company told us that "We don't know why our software keeps crashing on your systems, but it had to be your fault because it works fine for us here. Let us know what you find out." For 70k per year we expected better. Two years later it doesn't work any better and we have to spend hours on workarounds to prevent crashes. Unfortunately they are the only ones that make software that does what it does.
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Or I could have just looked under "help" and seen that I really DON'T trust the methodology. It's quite limited, and there is no stated error about random distribution of survey points. (i.e. if they are examinging the OSDL web sites that may overrepresnet firefox for instance)
I hate to sound like a hater, but I couldn't find their survey methodology anywhere. The site I know and whose methodology I know (I didn't say trust) doesn't paint quite as rosy of a picture.
The plaintiff summed it up best. "The jury determined this was a significant enough issue. It's not just somebody's feelings are hurt; it's somebody's reputation is ruined."
In the 60's, the soviet union issued a statement saying that they will NEVER use nukes FIRST, expecting us to reply in kind. We said "thanks, we appreciate that!" The *threat* of tactical nuclear attack on soviet forces coming through east germany to the west prevented WWIII.
1990, Pakistan and india's relations reach a boiling point. India tests a bomb, then pakistan tests a bomb. The implied threat has prevented a conventional war.
Why is Israel still on the map? Sure, they are tough SOBs, and the US has their back, but they are seriously outnumbered in the middle east. The threat of nuclear counter-attack is enough to prevent the arab world from all ganging up on them.
My point is that Nuclear weapons ARE useful, especially as a guarantor of security. (what paranoid-ass Kim Chong-il wants the most) Not only have nukes ended a war (WWII) but they are really good at preventing one from starting. North Korea doesn't want to nuke the US, they want to nuke themselves if we start pouring across the border.
It really does. More people in korea play video games than play soccer. These "rockstar" gamers were ordinary people that had a talent. I can't go play football with Peyton Manning, and if I did, I would get creamed. I CAN go play quake with these guys, and be (a little bit) competitive. I can talk to them online, I can make friends with them online. This makes more sense than worshipping a soccer player that doesn't realize (or care that) you exist.
Who are these people that let their kids (average) four hours per night? I've gone on 10 hour gaming benders, it happens, but my god averaging four hours a day is a LOT of gaming.
30 minutes is an eternity in modern battle. Most firefights last a few seconds.
Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 has a scheduler that can handle more than 80. It's written as a network scheduler, but seems like it would be adaptable to a single system.
Let's not fool ourselves, open source software takes talented people to run, not the normal graduates of 6-week "learn-computers-fast-to-make-money.com" windows training that is the mainstay of price thrifty contractors that make up the entire backbone of all DOD IT departments. I'm sure there are talented admins in the DOD, I've met some, but they are the exception rather than the rule. "Best and Brightest need not apply"
I got in an arguement about this recently. What does an enterprise mac system look like? What software do you run that makes these macs different from home PCs? (this is ignorance, not mac bashing) Is there an equivalant administrative construct to a windows domain? Do you just use the same handlers as BSD? I've done quite a bit of enterprise work, but I've never seen a mac integrated with an enterprise architecture.
TFA certainly doesn't back up this kind of claim. I'm not casting doubt on the claim itself, but this study doesn't support it. There are plenty of reasons why someone wouldn't want to use iTMS aside from DRM.
My point is, let's not jump to conclusions about DRM's market palettability. ANY service is a tough sell, and something as esoteric as music just doesn't have a mental "value" like something physical that comes in a box.
Now Do I need a CD-R/DVD+/-RW-DL/HDDVD-SL or a CD-R/DVD+/-RW-SL/HDDVD-DL?
The claim was that of capitalist system of financial incentives-to-produce is a time-tested and irrefutable fact. I made no claims about DRM. In fact, theft of music and movies is almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Economic espionage (theft of IP) is estimated to cost the USA between 250 and 300 billion dollars per year, plus peoples lives. (it's a dangerous game) The entire music industry is valued around 7 billion per year. IP must be protected. Congress understands this, but has chosen to focus their attention in the wrong places as directed by the people with the money. (a sad state of affairs)
Showers or a swimming pool are a good way to go, the other is to just be quick about it and don't go near any Sun equipment. We tried cooking an egg on a v880. It was delicious, but a bit overdone.
Reason #1: People make software for it
You obviously didn't think this all the way through. Cold is good for discreet sex. The last thing you want is to go back to work all sweaty. It's a dead give-away.
Learning to communicate effectively is important, but a twelve year old needs to learn how to think critically and solve problems before they learn to be a sales-weasel. Aside from that, powerpoint is a terrible communication medium, with no more educational value than the clear plastic cover I used to put on my papers to get a better grade.
Nothing initates you into a social group like a good ol' fashion naked romp in the server room with the alpha male. If you're attached and monogamous, (or they're ugly) then perhaps you should go for (or set up) a happy-hour or play dungeons and dragons or whatever the "clique" does. IT guys are typically nerds with poor social skills, have a party at your house with some of your single friends.
I found myself in the same spot. There is however a solution that has worked nicely for me. Gamefly is a netflix-esque service for games. I think a 1-at-a-time plan is like $15 month. Beats the heck out of constantly buying new games that will likely suck, or paying blockbuster $9 to rent one of their 15 games. My wife and I are rather particular about our games, and it's great to play them for a bit and be done with them.
Counter Example:The US Welfare system. In 1996 the welfare reform act of 1996 made people with no economic incentive to work get jobs or lose benefits. From the Wikipedia "The consequences of welfare reform have been dramatic. Welfare rolls (the number of people receiving payments) dropped significantly (57%) in the years since passage of the bill. Child poverty rates for African Americans have dropped the sharpest since statistics began to be tallied in the 1960s."
While I appreciate DRM on a macroeconomic level, I have serious problems with it as a consumer, and as such I totally recognize the appeal of DRM-free music as a consumer. What we need is a new social contract with music producers. It used to be that when I bought a CD, I (for all intents and purposes) owned the music. I could transport that music with me and play it anywhere I wanted. In the age of DRM they try to convince me that I own a license to play that music, but only on the one player. That's bullcrap. If I am buying a license, then I need to be able to get to that licensed material anywhere. The industry needs to create a common standard so that my digital music can go in my home theater, my iPod, my car, my friend's house or wherever else I might want it. At the moment, there is no consumer benefit to DRM protected media. That's wrong.
If everybody in America turned off that 60 watt bulb, we would save a billion acres of rainforest and a thousand humpback whales. Isn't it just easier to turn off the freaking lights where you aren't using them?
Well that's a load of crap. Look at gran turismo 1 vs gran turismo 2 for PS1. How about madden 2000 vs madden 2005? for PS2? Even in the old school mega man 1 visually sucked compared to mega man 4. As people develop for a platform they get better at it. Even in Xbox's first year, games have gotten WORLDS better. (visually)
If you don't trust your child to drive safely, WHY ARE YOU LETTING THEM DRIVE ALONE? Don't take this the wrong way, but I don't care if your kid careens off of a cliff and dies in a ball of fire. That however is FAR less likely than them careening into ME, and I do care about me. You know your kids best. If they shouldn't be driving (alone) PLEASE DONT LET THEM.
Remember, you're putting MY life in their hands.
I can say that I have been on the customer side of this crappy equation, and it pisses me off. If their expectations were too high, then you need to reign in your sales-weasel that promised them the moon and the stars. If they aren't getting the functionality that can reasonably be expected, then you need to fix your software. In my case, the company told us that "We don't know why our software keeps crashing on your systems, but it had to be your fault because it works fine for us here. Let us know what you find out." For 70k per year we expected better. Two years later it doesn't work any better and we have to spend hours on workarounds to prevent crashes. Unfortunately they are the only ones that make software that does what it does.