Maybe $25 is just an example, or its not US dollars. I don't think that's really the point.
I think the point is that the business is looked at in terms of moving CDs and not in terms of owning the right to the intellectual property, and the poster proposes including a larger relationship with the artist as well. While this may not be the right relationship for all artists, it is an idea that is worth considering.
Especially when you take the long term view of music, or you are a collector or a student of music. $12.99 is probably a fair price for the latest pop recording, since it is essentially disposable music, worthless over time, and the relationship with the artist is meaningless (since they probably look as music as a stepping stone to movies or flying into space). But as someone who has purchased Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" 3 times now (LP, LP to replace worn out LP, then CD) and knows I will probably have to purchase it again as SACD or whatever the next technology is comes out, the idea of a "subscription" to the music has appeal to me.
The corporate boy bands and other creations of the studios would continue to sit on pallets at the Price Club for 12 bucks a pop, and you'd throw them away or give them to the church rummage sale a few years later. Some acts (top orchestras, jazz greats, Pink Floyd) that create timeless stuff would seek the new method as a way of building fan bases and loyalty to the artist (and maybe the label?). And some acts would show they have legs or become important past their pop starts (Rolling Stones? Motown?) and might migrate from the "pop" pricing to the "art" pricing over time.
I would gladly pay larger fees (even subsriptions) for the rights to media upgrades as the technology changes or better access to concerts than the Ticketmaster scam.
Well, in this industry the cost of duplication is zero. I'm not defending software "pirates", but I wish people would stop equating copying bits on a hard disk to theft of physical goods.
A simplification of course. There is potential cost to the Internet connection, cost to operate the computer, potential cost for media, depreciable cost for the hardware, and potential cost for the software used for the copy. So, there is some cost for the duplication.
Similar industries are any that sell intellectual property. This includes most entertainment, most obviously music, movies, and literature. Anything effected by patents comes to mind (lots of electronics, pharmacy, etc.). I sure others could keep the list going.
So, theft of "bits" is not the same as theft of physical goods. But, that's only because the breaking and entering or threat of violence may not be involved. Since theft is usually defined as taking property the law's view on this is probably the same.
I don't think I've heard anyone express that before! Wasn't the first movie just an old episode extended to 2 hours of 1970's vintage effects? (Replace "V'Ger" with "Nomad", and run again)
The great thing about generalities, is that they generally don't apply to individuals.
The general response is:
Public Sector: Boring, Safe, Less Rewards Private Sectors: Exciting, Scary, Better Pay
Then a flood of responses from people that are in one category but have the properties of the other.
I've done both, currently in private, all my relatives in public (I live in DC). I can't work for the public sector anymore. I need to be able to look myself in the mirror each day.
There was very much a sense that IBM was Big Brother, but we didn't know it at the time....We didn't know that Bill Gates was writing the ultimate code to implant into the IBM system, which was then going to give birth to the PC, or at least make the PC accessible.
I think at that time we all knew IBM was "Big Brother". They even told us our character set was wrong! And didn't Bill buy the ultimate code? Didn't Woz and Jobs make this stuff accessible?
This isn't really "research" at a University as important as CMU, is it? The whole project seems a little trivial for such an important computer science department. Seems to me like research money is being used to kill application developers that have been in this niche for several years.
If the point of this is more the interface issues I can see this, but the web site seems more like a competitor to OmniRemote than a research project.
"HL7" is "Health Level 7", referring to the OSI model.
It is a protocol for electronic clinical data, not all healthcare data. While HL7 is a useful protocol for sharing information on an enterprise's Intranet, most EDI on an extranet is financial in nature which HL7 does not define. Data wizzing around internally is not subject to HIPAA, since it is not seen by the outside world (assuming other protections). And, the HL7 transactions are clear text -- not good for sending outside, right?
Moving forward, the HIPAA transaction sets are the deal.
By the way, the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group is a "Users Group", not a standards body. Anyone can join who wants to pony up the 50 bucks.
I even used WordPerfect for VMS, which worked exactly (minus some keyboard layout issues) on VT420 terminals. Frankly, the experience was unnerving. It bolded and struck through on the VT screen, I had never seen any other application make a terminal do those things.
The only funny thing was the way it displayed the "print preview" function. Used the terminal graphics to show you where the paragraphs and margins were.
Very strange in 1990 to be sharing VMS documents with PC users, and the apps worked the same and the documents printed fine.
Word certainly is the most obviously thing when it comes bundled with the computer. But I've never had any particular problem interacting with Word users, even using my Palm Pilot (and attached keyboard) to compose documents. I can't see how it makes much of a difference. Typing is typing, and you can save a file in Word format if someone really wants it that way.
How serious is the word processing in school anyway? 5 page term papers? You could do that on a typewriter.
I am trying to remember a non-animated version of this. It was late 70s, early 80s time frame. The movie was about scanning (3D) an actress for CG, then the plot was to murder her so that they didn't have to pay royalties to use the images.
I think it had some (at the time) non-existant technologies, like 3d scanning, monitoring what an eyeball was looking at, and some kind of laser that stunned a person when they looked at it that they used to cause people to have car crashes.
That's why you go to a theater you know. For the experience. Otherwise, DVD and VHS would've killed them a long time ago. Why bother paying high ticket prices and overcharged on underbuttered popcorn and $7 drinks? Because there's something magical about being in a huge auditorium, in a room filled with strangers, going on imaginary adventures with people who never existed.
Funny, all my movie experiences have the "magic" of people that won't stop talking, cell phones going off, crying babies whose parents take them out to 9:30 PM movies, broken seats, stupid kids with laser pointers, and too cold or too hot theaters. I already have sound quality of theaters at home, and I guess in a few years I'll have the picture quality of movies, and I can skip the expense of the "magic".
PS: I wouldn't invest in movie theaters if I were you. Although HDTV manufacturers and on-demand movies might be a good bet...
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I think the point is that the business is looked at in terms of moving CDs and not in terms of owning the right to the intellectual property, and the poster proposes including a larger relationship with the artist as well. While this may not be the right relationship for all artists, it is an idea that is worth considering.
Especially when you take the long term view of music, or you are a collector or a student of music. $12.99 is probably a fair price for the latest pop recording, since it is essentially disposable music, worthless over time, and the relationship with the artist is meaningless (since they probably look as music as a stepping stone to movies or flying into space). But as someone who has purchased Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" 3 times now (LP, LP to replace worn out LP, then CD) and knows I will probably have to purchase it again as SACD or whatever the next technology is comes out, the idea of a "subscription" to the music has appeal to me.
The corporate boy bands and other creations of the studios would continue to sit on pallets at the Price Club for 12 bucks a pop, and you'd throw them away or give them to the church rummage sale a few years later. Some acts (top orchestras, jazz greats, Pink Floyd) that create timeless stuff would seek the new method as a way of building fan bases and loyalty to the artist (and maybe the label?). And some acts would show they have legs or become important past their pop starts (Rolling Stones? Motown?) and might migrate from the "pop" pricing to the "art" pricing over time.
I would gladly pay larger fees (even subsriptions) for the rights to media upgrades as the technology changes or better access to concerts than the Ticketmaster scam.
Well, in this industry the cost of duplication is zero. I'm not defending software "pirates", but I wish people would stop equating copying bits on a hard disk to theft of physical goods.
A simplification of course. There is potential cost to the Internet connection, cost to operate the computer, potential cost for media, depreciable cost for the hardware, and potential cost for the software used for the copy. So, there is some cost for the duplication.
Similar industries are any that sell intellectual property. This includes most entertainment, most obviously music, movies, and literature. Anything effected by patents comes to mind (lots of electronics, pharmacy, etc.). I sure others could keep the list going.
So, theft of "bits" is not the same as theft of physical goods. But, that's only because the breaking and entering or threat of violence may not be involved. Since theft is usually defined as taking property the law's view on this is probably the same.
An 88-key MIDI controller plus a synth module isn't all that heavy.
Except this is an electronic device that can easily be reverse engineered and copied.
They should seal up Tori in the piano and send it around, then make sure the piano comes back still sealed.
I was hopeful too, but I heard Vin Diesel was cast as Sauron.
I don't think I've heard anyone express that before! Wasn't the first movie just an old episode extended to 2 hours of 1970's vintage effects? (Replace "V'Ger" with "Nomad", and run again)
I'm applying for a patent on the process of going to the moon. Anyone who wants in, let me know.
I know there is prior art on this, but that was with OLD computers. My patent will be doing it aided by NEW computers.
Everyone is upset over asking the US for permission.
Its only worth getting upset if the US denied permission to go. Then, what would they do about it?
But please be kind to the native moonians.
The great thing about generalities, is that they generally don't apply to individuals.
The general response is:
Public Sector: Boring, Safe, Less Rewards
Private Sectors: Exciting, Scary, Better Pay
Then a flood of responses from people that are in one category but have the properties of the other.
I've done both, currently in private, all my relatives in public (I live in DC). I can't work for the public sector anymore. I need to be able to look myself in the mirror each day.
This should protect you one flame. I would gladly pay to see the Daleks done with a bigger budget.
There was very much a sense that IBM was Big Brother, but we didn't know it at the time....We didn't know that Bill Gates was writing the ultimate code to implant into the IBM system, which was then going to give birth to the PC, or at least make the PC accessible.
I think at that time we all knew IBM was "Big Brother". They even told us our character set was wrong! And didn't Bill buy the ultimate code? Didn't Woz and Jobs make this stuff accessible?
Or did I sleep though this?
If the point of this is more the interface issues I can see this, but the web site seems more like a competitor to OmniRemote than a research project.
- Crystal Info (Seagate)
- All the home grown stuff through WebSphere
- Viador (Portal application)
Sorry, its a new machine. I haven't filled it up yet.
Google is rough on short searches, but the more terms you add, it finds what I'm looking for pretty quickly.
...the little space for "Butterfinger" is still empty!
Clarification:
"HL7" is "Health Level 7", referring to the OSI model.
It is a protocol for electronic clinical data, not all healthcare data. While HL7 is a useful protocol for sharing information on an enterprise's Intranet, most EDI on an extranet is financial in nature which HL7 does not define. Data wizzing around internally is not subject to HIPAA, since it is not seen by the outside world (assuming other protections). And, the HL7 transactions are clear text -- not good for sending outside, right?
Moving forward, the HIPAA transaction sets are the deal.
By the way, the Microsoft Healthcare Users Group is a "Users Group", not a standards body. Anyone can join who wants to pony up the 50 bucks.
The only funny thing was the way it displayed the "print preview" function. Used the terminal graphics to show you where the paragraphs and margins were.
Very strange in 1990 to be sharing VMS documents with PC users, and the apps worked the same and the documents printed fine.
How serious is the word processing in school anyway? 5 page term papers? You could do that on a typewriter.
We knew he had been swayed by the dark side once he created Jar Jar Binks.
But they may not be doing it in the name of science. They might be doing it because they're trying to prove us wrong...
Maybe they're hoping they see God up there sweeping up or something, and then they can say "see, I told you so".
If that's the case, why am I seeing much of my sector's business being shipped off to India?
Seems that most of the people I deal with only care about $/hr, and the going rate is now 12 $/hr for Microsoft and Java.
Haiku perfect when
Structure is more important
then message content
Apologies to all -- mostly a lurker (is there a way to "edit"?)
Haiku perfect when structure is more important than message content
I am trying to remember a non-animated version of this. It was late 70s, early 80s time frame. The movie was about scanning (3D) an actress for CG, then the plot was to murder her so that they didn't have to pay royalties to use the images. I think it had some (at the time) non-existant technologies, like 3d scanning, monitoring what an eyeball was looking at, and some kind of laser that stunned a person when they looked at it that they used to cause people to have car crashes.
Funny, all my movie experiences have the "magic" of people that won't stop talking, cell phones going off, crying babies whose parents take them out to 9:30 PM movies, broken seats, stupid kids with laser pointers, and too cold or too hot theaters. I already have sound quality of theaters at home, and I guess in a few years I'll have the picture quality of movies, and I can skip the expense of the "magic".
PS: I wouldn't invest in movie theaters if I were you. Although HDTV manufacturers and on-demand movies might be a good bet...