I would assume that since the takeover has been announced, that Yahoo! has been bleeding talented folks who don't want to be assimilated.
Have any of these folks started new companies? Any high profile defections to the Googleplex? Or would that be prevented by non-compete clauses in their contracts?
Wow, seems like a few arrests are in order.
You know, real high profile stuff, with the media alerted, full on perp walk (coat thrown tastefully over the head), screaming Boston Herald headlines like 'RIAA Snoops Cuffed!', the whole nine yards.
Anybody know anybody at the Herald? How can we make this happen?
Imagine what our educational system would be like if we assumed that every person had a chance of being chosen by lottery to be president or vp or a congressperson between their, say, 30th and 70th birthdays?
What would the perfect education for a potential president to be include? Macroeconomics? Foreign policy? Sociology? Comparitive religion? Military tactics and strategy?
If we run short of migrant workers as a side effect of immigration reform, imagine flocks / herds of robotic weeders / pickers roaming the fields. Heck, you could even have pest eating robots.
Here in the United States, Payola (undisclosed pay for play) is illegal. It has been since the scandals in the early 1960's.
Don't you see that this thoroughly isn't about piracy, but is about an attempt to shift the revenue scheme for over the air radio and the consequences thereof? God, I'd love to get you into one of my telecom regulation classes.
takes a deep breath
OK, the difference is this. In the current thoroughly legal setup, music performers make the bulk of their revenues from live performances and sales of music to individuals. Music composers make their revenues from the performances of their works, whether live or playback of recordings, whatever the transmission medium. There are plenty of artists today who are making money on both ends, by writing their own music and performing it live themselves.
The problem is this: How do consumers find out about new music? There are numerous channels (word of mouth, recommendations, music cable channels, etc, etc.) but it is still (most?) common for typical consumers (/.ers are most certainly not typical in this respect) to find out about new music through over the air radio. Over the air radio acts as advertisement, free advertising, letting consumers know about new music, or reminding them of existing music, out there available to be purchased. This is most certainly not piracy.
I did mistype earlier. Pay for play is not strictly illegal, but, by federal law, it must be clearly and unambigiously disclosed. A station could demand and receive compensation from music publishers, creators and performers (or all three) for playing songs, but they would have to annouunce on air that they had received payment.
I assume it would be considered piracy were a radio station to play songs and not pay their ASCAP or BMI fees.
Sorry, but you're displaying a fundamental lack of understanding about how radio works (from a financial point of view), along with a lack of knowledge of radio history. Understandable, because no one knows this stuff anymore except for telecom geeks.
Playing music over the radio has, since it's inception, been about advertising to promote sales of music (records, sheet music), advertising to promote attendance at live events, and to provide programming to attract listeners for, of course, advertising other goods and services. In the last case, think of how flowers use nectar to attract bees. Giving away nectar is just a cost of doing business if you want to be polinated.
Of course, it isn't a perfect analogy, because unlike flowers, radio stations aren't producing what they're giving away.
What radio explicitely hasn't been is a revenue source for song performers. Song writers, absolutely. I'll leave it up to you to look up the ASCAP / BMI controversy of 1939/1940.
I also have to wondeder what ASCAP and BMI will think of this. If this proposal results in a drop in radio play, then payments to songwriters (as opposed to song performers) will fall.
Oh, and this could definitely blow up in the RIAA's face. Clear Channel, Infinity and the like are notorious for being very, very tough business people. If this proposal goes through, and if they aren't able to negotiate a miniscule enough rate per play, I wouldn't put it past them to start buying up the larger RIAA members, just to get their music catalogs. Would there be anti-trust implications? Sure. Would it be worth a few tens of millions here or there to try. Absolutely.
Speaking as a former Angeleno...
Are there enough geeks in Berman's district to call his office and get him to reconsider?
Given the small number of people who vote in congressional elections if he doesn't back down, are there enough geeks in his district to get him punted out of office?
Oh damn, it's a presidential election year.
Isn't SOL a common acronym for (depending upon your cultural variant), "Shit Out of Luck," "Sadly Out of Luck," "Soldier Out of Luck," or "Solely Out of Luck."
Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but, I believe the idea is to not have to lift H2O out of a deep gravity well, to provide water for humans off planet.
So following the rules of the game, playing in character if that character happens to be an orc or dark elf or undead whatever or evil magic user, and having that character do something evil makes the person behind the character a socially disturbed wannabee? Instead, I'd say that makes them an involved and effective player who is adding to the fun of the in-game world.
If you're in an MMORPG, and it allows PVP, isn't this type of action exactly what people are paying and playing for?
In the case of the wedding, wouldn't really, fully, effectively playing the game involve, not only guests and decorations and deciding what tunic to wear and whatnot, but also arranging for a bunch of well armed guards? Wouldn't that also be part of the fun? After all, there are orcs and brigands about! Seems to me the wedding planners forgot what game they were playing.
If that isn't your thing, well, there's always Second Life.
Interesting.
What percentage of the population (in the US / in indusrialized countries / in the world) has a system which will allow them to hear the difference? If most people don't have the equipment which allow them to discern the difference, does it make a difference?
On the other hand, is the current facination with relatively low fidelity digital distribution a temporary phenomenon, with high fidelity digital distribution just around the corner?
Just as long as music is being archived in high fidelity formats, so it can be released later on in high fidelity digital formats. It would be terrible if musical content companies were archivin in low fi formats.
After reading TFA I didn't see any mention of any steganographic analysis. To me, that's the juicy stuff.
This may be off topic, but, has anyone (publically) been doing stego analysis on these videos?
Alternatively, we could sell it to a private concern, like Bigelow or Virgin or a private consortium who happens to have a few (ok, many, many) billions lying around.
Then again, the buyers might require that the ISS be boosted into a more usable, higher orbit before they take posession.
FrankNputer asked: Hmm...I wonder what happens when you put your drink on the MS table?
According to yesterday's story on NPR - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=10554012 - , it's designed to have drinks placed on it, especially drinks in glasses with ID chips, so it can show you an ad associated with what kind of drink you ordered, right next to where your drink is sitting.
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I would assume that since the takeover has been announced, that Yahoo! has been bleeding talented folks who don't want to be assimilated.
Have any of these folks started new companies? Any high profile defections to the Googleplex? Or would that be prevented by non-compete clauses in their contracts?
Heh, I give the developers 10 years.
I'm being wildly conservative.Wow, seems like a few arrests are in order. You know, real high profile stuff, with the media alerted, full on perp walk (coat thrown tastefully over the head), screaming Boston Herald headlines like 'RIAA Snoops Cuffed!', the whole nine yards. Anybody know anybody at the Herald? How can we make this happen?
Imagine what our educational system would be like if we assumed that every person had a chance of being chosen by lottery to be president or vp or a congressperson between their, say, 30th and 70th birthdays? What would the perfect education for a potential president to be include? Macroeconomics? Foreign policy? Sociology? Comparitive religion? Military tactics and strategy?
If we run short of migrant workers as a side effect of immigration reform, imagine flocks / herds of robotic weeders / pickers roaming the fields. Heck, you could even have pest eating robots.
Vacuum cleaners look like this.
Here in the United States, Payola (undisclosed pay for play) is illegal. It has been since the scandals in the early 1960's.
Don't you see that this thoroughly isn't about piracy, but is about an attempt to shift the revenue scheme for over the air radio and the consequences thereof? God, I'd love to get you into one of my telecom regulation classes.
takes a deep breath
OK, the difference is this. In the current thoroughly legal setup, music performers make the bulk of their revenues from live performances and sales of music to individuals. Music composers make their revenues from the performances of their works, whether live or playback of recordings, whatever the transmission medium. There are plenty of artists today who are making money on both ends, by writing their own music and performing it live themselves.
The problem is this: How do consumers find out about new music? There are numerous channels (word of mouth, recommendations, music cable channels, etc, etc.) but it is still (most?) common for typical consumers (/.ers are most certainly not typical in this respect) to find out about new music through over the air radio. Over the air radio acts as advertisement, free advertising, letting consumers know about new music, or reminding them of existing music, out there available to be purchased. This is most certainly not piracy.
I did mistype earlier. Pay for play is not strictly illegal, but, by federal law, it must be clearly and unambigiously disclosed. A station could demand and receive compensation from music publishers, creators and performers (or all three) for playing songs, but they would have to annouunce on air that they had received payment.
I assume it would be considered piracy were a radio station to play songs and not pay their ASCAP or BMI fees.
Sorry, but you're displaying a fundamental lack of understanding about how radio works (from a financial point of view), along with a lack of knowledge of radio history. Understandable, because no one knows this stuff anymore except for telecom geeks.
Playing music over the radio has, since it's inception, been about advertising to promote sales of music (records, sheet music), advertising to promote attendance at live events, and to provide programming to attract listeners for, of course, advertising other goods and services. In the last case, think of how flowers use nectar to attract bees. Giving away nectar is just a cost of doing business if you want to be polinated.
Of course, it isn't a perfect analogy, because unlike flowers, radio stations aren't producing what they're giving away.
What radio explicitely hasn't been is a revenue source for song performers. Song writers, absolutely. I'll leave it up to you to look up the ASCAP / BMI controversy of 1939/1940.
In fact, what is amazing about this is that, were the RIAA's proposal to be adopted, it would end up setting up a system exactly the opposite of the Payola scandal, where record producers paid / bribed radio station employees and execs to play records.
I also have to wondeder what ASCAP and BMI will think of this. If this proposal results in a drop in radio play, then payments to songwriters (as opposed to song performers) will fall.
Oh, and this could definitely blow up in the RIAA's face. Clear Channel, Infinity and the like are notorious for being very, very tough business people. If this proposal goes through, and if they aren't able to negotiate a miniscule enough rate per play, I wouldn't put it past them to start buying up the larger RIAA members, just to get their music catalogs. Would there be anti-trust implications? Sure. Would it be worth a few tens of millions here or there to try. Absolutely.
Yes, your eyes are bad, and yes, that is exactly where this technology is going.
Speaking as a former Angeleno... Are there enough geeks in Berman's district to call his office and get him to reconsider? Given the small number of people who vote in congressional elections if he doesn't back down, are there enough geeks in his district to get him punted out of office? Oh damn, it's a presidential election year.
Umm, correct me if I'm mistaken, but...
Isn't SOL a common acronym for (depending upon your cultural variant), "Shit Out of Luck," "Sadly Out of Luck," "Soldier Out of Luck," or "Solely Out of Luck."It's science fiction, I know, but...
Take a gander at Charles Stross' Accelerando or Ken MacLeod's The Cassini Divison for ideas around "strip mining" the gas giants.Please correct me if I'm mistaken, but, I believe the idea is to not have to lift H2O out of a deep gravity well, to provide water for humans off planet.
Think "meercat" - http://www.noelkingsley.com/blog/meercat.jpg - , then look at it again.
I've long wondered this. Boost it into a higher orbit, though. Strip out what's no longer needed. Install a bar or two.
Really?
So following the rules of the game, playing in character if that character happens to be an orc or dark elf or undead whatever or evil magic user, and having that character do something evil makes the person behind the character a socially disturbed wannabee? Instead, I'd say that makes them an involved and effective player who is adding to the fun of the in-game world.
If you're in an MMORPG, and it allows PVP, isn't this type of action exactly what people are paying and playing for?
In the case of the wedding, wouldn't really, fully, effectively playing the game involve, not only guests and decorations and deciding what tunic to wear and whatnot, but also arranging for a bunch of well armed guards? Wouldn't that also be part of the fun? After all, there are orcs and brigands about! Seems to me the wedding planners forgot what game they were playing.
If that isn't your thing, well, there's always Second Life.I think the parent was envisioning millions of hectares of wild grasses, as flammable as gasoline...
Grasses that biodegrade plastic, good.
Gasoline wildfires the size of Kansas, not so good.
Interesting. What percentage of the population (in the US / in indusrialized countries / in the world) has a system which will allow them to hear the difference? If most people don't have the equipment which allow them to discern the difference, does it make a difference? On the other hand, is the current facination with relatively low fidelity digital distribution a temporary phenomenon, with high fidelity digital distribution just around the corner? Just as long as music is being archived in high fidelity formats, so it can be released later on in high fidelity digital formats. It would be terrible if musical content companies were archivin in low fi formats.
After reading TFA I didn't see any mention of any steganographic analysis. To me, that's the juicy stuff. This may be off topic, but, has anyone (publically) been doing stego analysis on these videos?
The cheese moved itself.
But it will be back.
Ohhhh yes. It will be back.
Link? Reference?
Alternatively, we could sell it to a private concern, like Bigelow or Virgin or a private consortium who happens to have a few (ok, many, many) billions lying around.
Then again, the buyers might require that the ISS be boosted into a more usable, higher orbit before they take posession.
Still waiting...