But the cable company is offering all the channels. Most amusement parks I know charge you based on how many rides you can go on, not how many you actually go on. So if you are a certain height, and can only go on a few cheap-to-build-and-maintain kiddie rides, then you get in cheaper. If you are bigger and can go on the bigger more elaborate rides you pay more, regardless of if you're going to go on them. In the same way with cable, they offer 3 or 4 different tiers of programming. It doesn't matter to them that you are only going to watch 1 or 2 channels, because you have access to all of them. So by the logic that this lawsuit is trying to use, the amusement park would be required to sell you a ticket that only provides you access to 3 or 4 rides.
Saving around $15 K would be saving some serious coin. At least as far as I see it. I probably wouldn't make sense if you bought a Ford Focus, but if you're buying what would be a $50,000 car in Canada, it's probably worth the extra effort.
The whole distribution thing kind of confuses me in one way. If I have a friend on dial-up, and I download Linux for them, and install it to their computer, does that count as distributing it to them? Would I be in violation of the GPL if I didn't make the source available to them? What if I did this on 2 computers? What about 10? What about 1 Million? What seems weird to me is that the Linux community encourages people installing Linux on everyone's computers that they can, but at what level of installation does it suddenly become your responsibility to provide the code to them? If the code is unmodified, couldn't you just point them to the original place you got it from?
But if the US dollar is the only one tanking, and they don't actually produce the products themselves, they have no choice but to buy it form outside the country.
I still want to know why all the books in the book store, and magazines, have the US price at 2/3 of the Canadian price, when the exchange rate hasn't been that bad in years.
You must mean United Statesian dollar jokes. America includes all of North America and South America, including Canada, the US, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, etc..
Ask and ye shall Receive. Here's the link to the graph and data on Yahoo Finance. As of my posting, it appears that the US dollar has bounced back a bit, and is worth 1.0095 Canadian dollars.
Just like the phone company can't copyright phone numbers, the book store, or even publisher can't copyright an ISBN number. Copyright covers creative works. It does not cover computer generated numbers.
I'm currently on what I call "low-speed high-speed". It's the 1 Mbit down, 125 Kbit up service that my ISP offers. If there was a good legal place to download tv shows for free, then I would probably get the 6 Mbit service that they offer. As it stands right now, I only browse the web, download music from eMusic, and download a Linux DVD ISO once or twice a year. If there was more content available on the web, I would probably sign up for the fastest package they had. But as for now, most of the stuff I do, even videos like Apple Movie Trailers play just fine over my 1 Mbit connection. You would think that bringing richer content to the web would make the ISPs happier, as there's more people paying for higher service levels. However, I'm not sure if it really helps them, as they have pretty much built their business model on selling 6 Mbit connections to people who do nothing more than browse the web and check their email.
My ISP took down their USENET servers years ago. There's still other usenet networks you pay to use, but that's an extra cost on top of my already high internet costs, and isn't as fast as when it was on my ISPs network.
It's not post sensory. How does a cat know to hunt for birds. We had a cat that lived in our apartment since shortly after it was born. Before that, it lived in a cage. We sent it to live at my mother-in-law's country house, and it very quickly went back to it's wild roots and started hunting birds, frogs, mice, and other small prey. It didn't learn this from anyone. How does it even know what it can eat? All it's food had been served in a dish before that. It just knew. In the same way, humans, and most other animals just know things. They are intuitive. They don't require any teaching, and will just do things that they need to survive spontaneously.
I don't know where you live, but I think they took that off the phone bills quite a few years ago. Actually, what they will charge extra for is if you want pulse dialing. I think they still offer it in some places.
Also, this sounds like RIAA logic in some ways. It seems like the number either assume that the people buying, for example, fake rolexes, don't know they are buying a fake, and are actually not getting the product they expect to, or it assumes that if they didn't buy the fake rolex, and the counterfeit product wasn't available, that they would have bought the real thing. For the majority of counterfeit products, people know that what they are buying isn't the real thing, and just want some cheap imitation. I know it sucks for the makers of the real things, but think about it this way, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Well, that's is one downside. However, just look at it this way. Get the cheapest subscription. That's $10. For 30 songs. If you want more than 30 tracks in a given month, then buy a booster pack. The songs are a little more expensive this way (up to $0.60 a song, but as cheap as $0.40 cents), and your booster packs only expire a year after you've bought them, so you shouldn't have trouble using those up, especially with booster packs as small as 10 tracks. If you buy less than 30 tracks a month, than maybe eMusic isn't for you. But if you buy 11 or more tracks, you're still saving money over the other 99 cent music services. I think the major reason they have subscriptions, and this isn't in their literature, is to cut down on transaction costs for charging your credit card for 30 cents every time you buy a track. This lets them charge each person once a month, keeping their transaction prices low, and allowing them to keep their prices low.
That is true. But there's a lot of people who like music, who just won't buy it because of the price. I'm one of those people. I see a lot of albums I'd like to buy, but not for $15. Because very few albums are that good, that they are worth $15. Most of the music produced today is throw-away stuff that nobody will be listening to in 5 years. So it should be priced accordingly.
But is it different this time around? With HTML, CSS, Kerberos, Java, and all the other embrace,extend,extinguish campaigns they do, there is no ISO standard for HTML, CSS (Both w3c standards), Kerberos (just an RFC), and Java, (a standard which is just owned by another large corporation), for any of these other things. However, with ISO standards, isn't there a bit more enforcement of whether or not something adheres to the standard? Don't they actually check that products that say they meet some standard actually meet the standard? Don't they take legal recourse against products that use there standards incorrectly? Maybe I'm just wrong here, but I don't think that ISO has built up such a large reputation for standards by just letting things slide, and having their name slapped on products that don't adhere to the standard.
That's a much better profit margin than what is seen by most shops who sell computer parts, but there seems to be a fair number of those around. If the record store stopped charging so much, they'd sell a lot more copies, and probably be able to make a much larger profit in the end.
-4dB? Aren't most albums mastered at around -0.01 dB? I was ripping some CDs to my computer lately with CDex, and it displays this information in the ripping dialog. Most of the stuff was around -0.01 dB, except an old Judas Priest album I bought at a garage sales, which was actually mastered at acceptable levels.
There's a whole bunch of artists on eMusic selling songs for $0.30 and albums for around $5.00 (assuming 15 songs on an album), who have yet to make their "pile". If they can do it, and Trent can do it, there's no reason that all the artists at in-between levels of famousness can't do it too, as well as those who sell many more records than Trent.
And even with viruses, what percentage are them are installed through dumb users running executables they shouldn't? Most of the time it comes down to dumb users. There's been very few times that a Virus/worm has been able to work itself into the computer without user interaction. Granted in the case where this has happened, like when ports are left open, and the virus sneaks in from the internet, the infection rate can be very high. However, still, most viruses, and the majority of computer/security problems in general come from dumb users.
When you buy windows, you pay for licensing the required codecs to play MP3 and video files. If Dell thinks this is a big issue that customers can't play MP3 files (and I think it is), then they should work out some kind of deal whereby they pay for licensing for these codecs, so that people can play the files they want to play. Also, it seems that Dell has really bad execution of this product, and that it's not really Linux or Ubuntu's fault. The machine should come working, out of the box, and if it doesn't, then Dell shouldn't be selling it.
That's not always true. I've seen a lot of professors who were able to capture the students' attention, and actually have them learn the material quite well, with only a blackboard and a piece of chalk. I've also seen a lot of professors with all this tricked out technology and completely fail at teaching, either by not getting the students interested, or completing failing at getting the point of the lecture across. So, while technology can help, especially if the professor understands it, I would say that the majority of professors who are bad, can't be helped by just throwing more technology at the problem. And professors who are already good, don't need high tech gadgets to teach.
Redownload for cost? the cost of bandwidth is probably less than.5 of a cent. eMusic keeps records of the songs you buy, and you can redownload your music as much as you want. I don't know how iTunes gets away with such high prices, and such bad service. Besides, I'm pretty sure Apples keeps records of what you download. I hear if you complain enough they'll let you redownload stuff. I would hate to have a hard drive crash, and lose a bunch of music. Sure you can back it up, but even if you do that once a week, there's still a week's worth of music you have to rebuy.
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But the cable company is offering all the channels. Most amusement parks I know charge you based on how many rides you can go on, not how many you actually go on. So if you are a certain height, and can only go on a few cheap-to-build-and-maintain kiddie rides, then you get in cheaper. If you are bigger and can go on the bigger more elaborate rides you pay more, regardless of if you're going to go on them. In the same way with cable, they offer 3 or 4 different tiers of programming. It doesn't matter to them that you are only going to watch 1 or 2 channels, because you have access to all of them. So by the logic that this lawsuit is trying to use, the amusement park would be required to sell you a ticket that only provides you access to 3 or 4 rides.
Unless you run Windows, then they only let you create partitions up to 32 GB.
Saving around $15 K would be saving some serious coin. At least as far as I see it. I probably wouldn't make sense if you bought a Ford Focus, but if you're buying what would be a $50,000 car in Canada, it's probably worth the extra effort.
Apparently nobody realizes I was trying to make a joke.
The whole distribution thing kind of confuses me in one way. If I have a friend on dial-up, and I download Linux for them, and install it to their computer, does that count as distributing it to them? Would I be in violation of the GPL if I didn't make the source available to them? What if I did this on 2 computers? What about 10? What about 1 Million? What seems weird to me is that the Linux community encourages people installing Linux on everyone's computers that they can, but at what level of installation does it suddenly become your responsibility to provide the code to them? If the code is unmodified, couldn't you just point them to the original place you got it from?
But if the US dollar is the only one tanking, and they don't actually produce the products themselves, they have no choice but to buy it form outside the country.
I still want to know why all the books in the book store, and magazines, have the US price at 2/3 of the Canadian price, when the exchange rate hasn't been that bad in years.
You must mean United Statesian dollar jokes. America includes all of North America and South America, including Canada, the US, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, etc..
Ask and ye shall Receive. Here's the link to the graph and data on Yahoo Finance. As of my posting, it appears that the US dollar has bounced back a bit, and is worth 1.0095 Canadian dollars.
Just like the phone company can't copyright phone numbers, the book store, or even publisher can't copyright an ISBN number. Copyright covers creative works. It does not cover computer generated numbers.
I'm currently on what I call "low-speed high-speed". It's the 1 Mbit down, 125 Kbit up service that my ISP offers. If there was a good legal place to download tv shows for free, then I would probably get the 6 Mbit service that they offer. As it stands right now, I only browse the web, download music from eMusic, and download a Linux DVD ISO once or twice a year. If there was more content available on the web, I would probably sign up for the fastest package they had. But as for now, most of the stuff I do, even videos like Apple Movie Trailers play just fine over my 1 Mbit connection. You would think that bringing richer content to the web would make the ISPs happier, as there's more people paying for higher service levels. However, I'm not sure if it really helps them, as they have pretty much built their business model on selling 6 Mbit connections to people who do nothing more than browse the web and check their email.
My ISP took down their USENET servers years ago. There's still other usenet networks you pay to use, but that's an extra cost on top of my already high internet costs, and isn't as fast as when it was on my ISPs network.
It's not post sensory. How does a cat know to hunt for birds. We had a cat that lived in our apartment since shortly after it was born. Before that, it lived in a cage. We sent it to live at my mother-in-law's country house, and it very quickly went back to it's wild roots and started hunting birds, frogs, mice, and other small prey. It didn't learn this from anyone. How does it even know what it can eat? All it's food had been served in a dish before that. It just knew. In the same way, humans, and most other animals just know things. They are intuitive. They don't require any teaching, and will just do things that they need to survive spontaneously.
I don't know where you live, but I think they took that off the phone bills quite a few years ago. Actually, what they will charge extra for is if you want pulse dialing. I think they still offer it in some places.
Also, this sounds like RIAA logic in some ways. It seems like the number either assume that the people buying, for example, fake rolexes, don't know they are buying a fake, and are actually not getting the product they expect to, or it assumes that if they didn't buy the fake rolex, and the counterfeit product wasn't available, that they would have bought the real thing. For the majority of counterfeit products, people know that what they are buying isn't the real thing, and just want some cheap imitation. I know it sucks for the makers of the real things, but think about it this way, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Well, that's is one downside. However, just look at it this way. Get the cheapest subscription. That's $10. For 30 songs. If you want more than 30 tracks in a given month, then buy a booster pack. The songs are a little more expensive this way (up to $0.60 a song, but as cheap as $0.40 cents), and your booster packs only expire a year after you've bought them, so you shouldn't have trouble using those up, especially with booster packs as small as 10 tracks. If you buy less than 30 tracks a month, than maybe eMusic isn't for you. But if you buy 11 or more tracks, you're still saving money over the other 99 cent music services. I think the major reason they have subscriptions, and this isn't in their literature, is to cut down on transaction costs for charging your credit card for 30 cents every time you buy a track. This lets them charge each person once a month, keeping their transaction prices low, and allowing them to keep their prices low.
That is true. But there's a lot of people who like music, who just won't buy it because of the price. I'm one of those people. I see a lot of albums I'd like to buy, but not for $15. Because very few albums are that good, that they are worth $15. Most of the music produced today is throw-away stuff that nobody will be listening to in 5 years. So it should be priced accordingly.
But is it different this time around? With HTML, CSS, Kerberos, Java, and all the other embrace,extend,extinguish campaigns they do, there is no ISO standard for HTML, CSS (Both w3c standards), Kerberos (just an RFC), and Java, (a standard which is just owned by another large corporation), for any of these other things. However, with ISO standards, isn't there a bit more enforcement of whether or not something adheres to the standard? Don't they actually check that products that say they meet some standard actually meet the standard? Don't they take legal recourse against products that use there standards incorrectly? Maybe I'm just wrong here, but I don't think that ISO has built up such a large reputation for standards by just letting things slide, and having their name slapped on products that don't adhere to the standard.
That's a much better profit margin than what is seen by most shops who sell computer parts, but there seems to be a fair number of those around. If the record store stopped charging so much, they'd sell a lot more copies, and probably be able to make a much larger profit in the end.
-4dB? Aren't most albums mastered at around -0.01 dB? I was ripping some CDs to my computer lately with CDex, and it displays this information in the ripping dialog. Most of the stuff was around -0.01 dB, except an old Judas Priest album I bought at a garage sales, which was actually mastered at acceptable levels.
There's a whole bunch of artists on eMusic selling songs for $0.30 and albums for around $5.00 (assuming 15 songs on an album), who have yet to make their "pile". If they can do it, and Trent can do it, there's no reason that all the artists at in-between levels of famousness can't do it too, as well as those who sell many more records than Trent.
And even with viruses, what percentage are them are installed through dumb users running executables they shouldn't? Most of the time it comes down to dumb users. There's been very few times that a Virus/worm has been able to work itself into the computer without user interaction. Granted in the case where this has happened, like when ports are left open, and the virus sneaks in from the internet, the infection rate can be very high. However, still, most viruses, and the majority of computer/security problems in general come from dumb users.
When you buy windows, you pay for licensing the required codecs to play MP3 and video files. If Dell thinks this is a big issue that customers can't play MP3 files (and I think it is), then they should work out some kind of deal whereby they pay for licensing for these codecs, so that people can play the files they want to play. Also, it seems that Dell has really bad execution of this product, and that it's not really Linux or Ubuntu's fault. The machine should come working, out of the box, and if it doesn't, then Dell shouldn't be selling it.
That's not always true. I've seen a lot of professors who were able to capture the students' attention, and actually have them learn the material quite well, with only a blackboard and a piece of chalk. I've also seen a lot of professors with all this tricked out technology and completely fail at teaching, either by not getting the students interested, or completing failing at getting the point of the lecture across. So, while technology can help, especially if the professor understands it, I would say that the majority of professors who are bad, can't be helped by just throwing more technology at the problem. And professors who are already good, don't need high tech gadgets to teach.
Redownload for cost? the cost of bandwidth is probably less than .5 of a cent. eMusic keeps records of the songs you buy, and you can redownload your music as much as you want. I don't know how iTunes gets away with such high prices, and such bad service. Besides, I'm pretty sure Apples keeps records of what you download. I hear if you complain enough they'll let you redownload stuff. I would hate to have a hard drive crash, and lose a bunch of music. Sure you can back it up, but even if you do that once a week, there's still a week's worth of music you have to rebuy.