"they removed my DRM fear mongering from my original submission."
"Essentially, I'm guessing the RIAA will pressure Apple into releasing or updating their client software to not decrypt the DRM'd songs (non iTunes Plus tracks) until the user coughs up the additional six cents."
I'm assuming that's because what you said was unfounded, but more importantly completely ridiculous. You can't retroactively revoke access to something that was already sold when using the product doesn't rely on your services. And stretch all you want, you aren't going to find a real life example of where it has happened. It will be shot down.
A flak vest doesn't protect its user 100%, but it improves their odds. What's so ridiculous about trying to find something to reduce the amount of filth your child sees?
I don't see Oracle being successful moving in to areas that aren't it's core business (hardware vs software), especially one that's already saturated. The insurance company makes a lot of acquisitions, and the first step is always unloading everything the new company does that isn't insurance, no matter how profitable they've been.
How useful. I'll let you be the MS support guy that has to tell your customers to type "h, t, no t, as in Tom, t, p, no, that was 2 t's, colon, forward slash, for- forward, it's the one on the question mark key."
What a BS summary of the article. I generally don't RTFA but this time I did, and it revealed a seedy-as-I've-ever-seen summary. People aren't getting banned for talking about DRM. They are being banned for being jackasses when they talk about DRM.
It's disappointing that every reply is a joke. Phone after phone gave me terrible reception and dropped calls, to the point that I still go outside to talk on the phone, even though I now have a good phone, because I'm used to not being able to have a conversation inside.
Every time I replace a phone I hunted and hunted for reviews that would talk about the reception. Reading 10 page reviews talking about the battery life, 1 mpixel camera quality, automatic douche mode, I never found anything better than "reception was acceptable in Chicago." It's a god damned phone. Tell me how good it works as a phone.
This is so tired. If you want to watch good movies, buy good movies in whatever format you can play. When I bought an HD TV, I expected the picture to be better but I didn't expect to enjoy TV anymore. But I do. A lot more. In fact, I even watch a couple of hours a week now. It's a different experience. The upgrade isn't trivial.
Your post would seem to imply that the improved technology of BR reduces the quality of DVDs (though I'm sure you'd refute that was your intention). It's like saying you'd rather play Crysis on a slow computer than a fast one. That's ridiculous. They're the same damn thing, one with a much better picture. If you mean that the movies you want aren't on BR, say that, and expect to be ignored because no one cares.
"Yes, I wish we lived in a world where all formats, protocols, and standards were Free, but they never will be so long as capitalism remains our official state religion."
Good call. Maybe one day North Korea will wake us up from our current state.
"Can I see the report that verifies your assertions?"
I'm a slashdot poster and not any an analyst, but I'll bite. We'll use the numbers from the study above. Let's assume for a minute that we're going to make a team of 5 people to create and implement this policy, and it costs each of the 5000 employees a modest 5 minutes a day to fulfill their requirements, and we're going to result in needing half the storage.
Half the storage means we're saving $675k for that storage over 5 years.
We'll say those 5 guys are going to get paid $50k a year. That's... the original cost of the storage we were trying to reduce, $1.25m over 5 years.
Everyone else getting paid $60k a year is now wasting 60,000 / 52(weeks) / 40(hours) / 12(5 minutes) * 5000(employees) ~= $12k. A drop in the bucket I suppose.
Pay 3 guys $45k a year to implement this program and you'll break even. That said, I have a vague idea of what my company pays for storage and I don't think the numbers above are very realistic. Storage costs more, or at least a company that isn't a start up will have much more data than that. Still, my company's motivation for data retention policies has much less to do with storage costs and much more with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as made apparent by our training materials.
The developers haven't legally licensed the Xbox XDK, and so they can't legally distribute binaries. So you'll have to find them somewhere illegitimate.
$250k a year for a 5000 employee company? To put it in perspective, if the average employee at this company is making $60k a year, this company will be paying $1.5 billion in salaries over the same 5 years.
To be fair, I think the estimated cost from the article is very much underestimated. But while corporate storage costs more than you'd think, and companies are definately storing a whole bunch of data they don't need, what about the costs of reviewing and purging that data? That is straight up time, whether it's reviewing existing data or spending the time to create guidelines for which data to keep. And time costs money. More than storage.
Sorry, dude. She said she likes smart guys. Not guys that take lame joke bait.
Seriously, if you're going to post that, you should, at the very least, and not that it would excuse you, include a disclaimer. A simple "I'll bite,..." or the ol' subject "Because somebody had to say it."
OR!! What is amazing is how many people can ignore the obvious tone of an email and pretend it means something it doesn't, by purposely choosing the wrong conotation of a word that can be positive or negative.
No, that wouldn't be awesome at all. It's amazing how ignorant slashdot users can obviously be if you take a second to think about the consequences of what they suggest. This is, in fact, the second time today I've responded to someone calling for the spectacular failure of a major company, in the middle of a major economic downturn. Ignoring the huge impact Google falling would have on our economy, maybe you can imagine something a little more practical, that hits home: What search engine do you use?
What doesn't make capitolism work is a bunch of people without jobs. The US economy is already falling apart, what you should be hoping for is for nvidia to clean up it's act, make better chips, sell lots of them and hire lots of employees.
If you're checking your email hoping for an "invite out" or "juicy gossip," the time you are on probably isn't very valuable before anyway. In a business environment, you aren't wasting time, you're communicating. Not taking in to account organizational spam, of course.
HAH! I pay $90 (plus $15 for a phone line I wouldn't otherwise have) a month for 768k SDSL. Next best option is dialup (which I consider better than satellite after a bit of research). But somehow I doubt people that live in places as populus as ours don't have too many more options, no matter what country they're in.
You know, this comment has me genuinely thinking. I agree that my company couldn't outsource all 3000 of our positions overnight (or many of them at all), but with the internet making the world a smaller place, businesses switching to cheaper labor(/whatever you call working on a computer) overseas, we'll be moving to a sort of parity.
1. Want China to improve on human rights? Sure, the people in power are horrible, but the best thing we, as westerners, could do for these people is to help them improve their economy. Buy their stuff (which we are doing, by the thousands of boatloads), they get jobs and..
2. Look at Japan. In the 70s everything coming from Japan was complete garbage, garnering the same opinions as things made in China today. They worked cheap and made stuff cheap, but the quality slowly improved (along with raising prices) until the stuff Japan sold us was better than the stuff we made ourselves. In the meantime, life got better for Japanese people. Have you noticed the garbage you've bought from China is at least marginally higher quality than it was 5 years ago?
3. As national economies improve worldwide (and, off topic, as we continue to have republican presidents do their part), the gap in the cost of labor will slowly close. It seems to me, in the future, it will be really tough to have success in a single country. If you want life to be better in one country, you'll need to work on the rest of the world.
Which is why I've just decided to nominate myself for world president.
This article answers it's own question. "... all for a job that could be outsourced tomorrow." What better way to ensure you don't have a job than to make yourself more expensive than a contractor?
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"they removed my DRM fear mongering from my original submission."
"Essentially, I'm guessing the RIAA will pressure Apple into releasing or updating their client software to not decrypt the DRM'd songs (non iTunes Plus tracks) until the user coughs up the additional six cents."
I'm assuming that's because what you said was unfounded, but more importantly completely ridiculous. You can't retroactively revoke access to something that was already sold when using the product doesn't rely on your services. And stretch all you want, you aren't going to find a real life example of where it has happened. It will be shot down.
A flak vest doesn't protect its user 100%, but it improves their odds. What's so ridiculous about trying to find something to reduce the amount of filth your child sees?
I don't see Oracle being successful moving in to areas that aren't it's core business (hardware vs software), especially one that's already saturated. The insurance company makes a lot of acquisitions, and the first step is always unloading everything the new company does that isn't insurance, no matter how profitable they've been.
How well does that copout work when you are speeding and tell the cop you were just keeping up with traffic?
How useful. I'll let you be the MS support guy that has to tell your customers to type "h, t, no t, as in Tom, t, p, no, that was 2 t's, colon, forward slash, for- forward, it's the one on the question mark key."
What a BS summary of the article. I generally don't RTFA but this time I did, and it revealed a seedy-as-I've-ever-seen summary. People aren't getting banned for talking about DRM. They are being banned for being jackasses when they talk about DRM.
Nothing like not being able to download a web browser because you don't have a web browser!
It's disappointing that every reply is a joke. Phone after phone gave me terrible reception and dropped calls, to the point that I still go outside to talk on the phone, even though I now have a good phone, because I'm used to not being able to have a conversation inside.
Every time I replace a phone I hunted and hunted for reviews that would talk about the reception. Reading 10 page reviews talking about the battery life, 1 mpixel camera quality, automatic douche mode, I never found anything better than "reception was acceptable in Chicago." It's a god damned phone. Tell me how good it works as a phone.
"(including street view, a feature that is infuriatingly missing from the iPhone)"
I don't mean to be a troll, just curious. In what way is Google Street View useful?
This is so tired. If you want to watch good movies, buy good movies in whatever format you can play. When I bought an HD TV, I expected the picture to be better but I didn't expect to enjoy TV anymore. But I do. A lot more. In fact, I even watch a couple of hours a week now. It's a different experience. The upgrade isn't trivial.
Your post would seem to imply that the improved technology of BR reduces the quality of DVDs (though I'm sure you'd refute that was your intention). It's like saying you'd rather play Crysis on a slow computer than a fast one. That's ridiculous. They're the same damn thing, one with a much better picture. If you mean that the movies you want aren't on BR, say that, and expect to be ignored because no one cares.
"Yes, I wish we lived in a world where all formats, protocols, and standards were Free, but they never will be so long as capitalism remains our official state religion."
Good call. Maybe one day North Korea will wake us up from our current state.
"Can I see the report that verifies your assertions?"
I'm a slashdot poster and not any an analyst, but I'll bite. We'll use the numbers from the study above. Let's assume for a minute that we're going to make a team of 5 people to create and implement this policy, and it costs each of the 5000 employees a modest 5 minutes a day to fulfill their requirements, and we're going to result in needing half the storage.
Half the storage means we're saving $675k for that storage over 5 years.
We'll say those 5 guys are going to get paid $50k a year. That's... the original cost of the storage we were trying to reduce, $1.25m over 5 years.
Everyone else getting paid $60k a year is now wasting 60,000 / 52(weeks) / 40(hours) / 12(5 minutes) * 5000(employees) ~= $12k. A drop in the bucket I suppose.
Pay 3 guys $45k a year to implement this program and you'll break even. That said, I have a vague idea of what my company pays for storage and I don't think the numbers above are very realistic. Storage costs more, or at least a company that isn't a start up will have much more data than that. Still, my company's motivation for data retention policies has much less to do with storage costs and much more with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, as made apparent by our training materials.
The developers haven't legally licensed the Xbox XDK, and so they can't legally distribute binaries. So you'll have to find them somewhere illegitimate.
$250k a year for a 5000 employee company? To put it in perspective, if the average employee at this company is making $60k a year, this company will be paying $1.5 billion in salaries over the same 5 years. To be fair, I think the estimated cost from the article is very much underestimated. But while corporate storage costs more than you'd think, and companies are definately storing a whole bunch of data they don't need, what about the costs of reviewing and purging that data? That is straight up time, whether it's reviewing existing data or spending the time to create guidelines for which data to keep. And time costs money. More than storage.
Sorry, dude. She said she likes smart guys. Not guys that take lame joke bait.
..." or the ol' subject "Because somebody had to say it."
Seriously, if you're going to post that, you should, at the very least, and not that it would excuse you, include a disclaimer. A simple "I'll bite,
Sounds like Jerry Seinfeld alright. Microsoft sure is getting everything wrong.
OR!! What is amazing is how many people can ignore the obvious tone of an email and pretend it means something it doesn't, by purposely choosing the wrong conotation of a word that can be positive or negative.
No, that wouldn't be awesome at all. It's amazing how ignorant slashdot users can obviously be if you take a second to think about the consequences of what they suggest. This is, in fact, the second time today I've responded to someone calling for the spectacular failure of a major company, in the middle of a major economic downturn. Ignoring the huge impact Google falling would have on our economy, maybe you can imagine something a little more practical, that hits home: What search engine do you use?
What doesn't make capitolism work is a bunch of people without jobs. The US economy is already falling apart, what you should be hoping for is for nvidia to clean up it's act, make better chips, sell lots of them and hire lots of employees.
If you're checking your email hoping for an "invite out" or "juicy gossip," the time you are on probably isn't very valuable before anyway. In a business environment, you aren't wasting time, you're communicating. Not taking in to account organizational spam, of course.
HAH! I pay $90 (plus $15 for a phone line I wouldn't otherwise have) a month for 768k SDSL. Next best option is dialup (which I consider better than satellite after a bit of research). But somehow I doubt people that live in places as populus as ours don't have too many more options, no matter what country they're in.
And someone modded me down like they weren't thinking the same thing. HEH!
It blows my mind you're still posting this garbage on slashdot. Listen to your users.
You know, this comment has me genuinely thinking. I agree that my company couldn't outsource all 3000 of our positions overnight (or many of them at all), but with the internet making the world a smaller place, businesses switching to cheaper labor(/whatever you call working on a computer) overseas, we'll be moving to a sort of parity.
1. Want China to improve on human rights? Sure, the people in power are horrible, but the best thing we, as westerners, could do for these people is to help them improve their economy. Buy their stuff (which we are doing, by the thousands of boatloads), they get jobs and..
2. Look at Japan. In the 70s everything coming from Japan was complete garbage, garnering the same opinions as things made in China today. They worked cheap and made stuff cheap, but the quality slowly improved (along with raising prices) until the stuff Japan sold us was better than the stuff we made ourselves. In the meantime, life got better for Japanese people. Have you noticed the garbage you've bought from China is at least marginally higher quality than it was 5 years ago?
3. As national economies improve worldwide (and, off topic, as we continue to have republican presidents do their part), the gap in the cost of labor will slowly close. It seems to me, in the future, it will be really tough to have success in a single country. If you want life to be better in one country, you'll need to work on the rest of the world.
Which is why I've just decided to nominate myself for world president.
This article answers it's own question. "... all for a job that could be outsourced tomorrow." What better way to ensure you don't have a job than to make yourself more expensive than a contractor?