If any third party online service succeeded, the current music industry would be toast.
I think this is the crux of the issue. The labels currently own the product and the means of distribution. Anyone who has taken macro economics 101 knows enough to see that losing control of the means of distribution is probably a larger threat to music labels than losing ownership of the product - which they sort of have, in their struggle to keep from copying and distributing on their own (which brings us back to the means of distribution).
They are losing control in much the same way Kodak lost control of the photograph market and the same way Microsoft is now losing control. Control becomes more important than product quality because as control increases quality and innovation can decrease.
All of your solutions are about publishing on the web, with the possible exception of podcasting, which you could argue is mp3 player-based. What about ebooks? There are several available for most major PDA platforms, some that WYSIWYG based and others that import from ASCII or HTML.
Listen people, only Mexican corporations will migrated to Linux based on licensing costs. The rest of the world doesn't give shit.
Well, except for most of the folks here at/. who run Linux. Oh, and of course, the organization whose move generated the topic for this post, Australia's NSW Office of State Revenue.
Star Office 8 is to Office 12 as... Roast beef on wheat sandwich in a public park is to 12oz Angus steak with baked potato and nice California wine in a restauraunt that requires reservations (or you could sneak in through the kitchen).
Which is to say Star Office 8 is just a nutritious as an expensive steak dinner but it doesn't require as much expense or overhead?
With an onboard MP3 player, phone, storage capacity, probably bluetooth, probably an address book and calendar, probably some games, wallpaper, and so on we should just call them... computers!;-)
Oh and it's got a very nice mp3 player and a 2 Mpixel camera to boot! I love that little thing...
Wow! At what points do we stop calling these things phones and start calling them somthing else? What is it? A storage device, MP3 player, digital camera, or phone? Sooner or later someone will have to come up with a decent name for these things!
The mayhem from an OSS voting system in California could be potentially horrible for open source software. It's impossible to have an election with paper and pencil that doesn't get scrutinized. Hell, it was impossible for Florida to have an election with punch cards.
If paper and pencil or styli and punch cards can be questioned open source could be trashed by the media and politicans alike. It won't be long before Microsoft and HP roll out their own 'secure' and 'trusted' and 'robust' solution to mop up the mess.
This could also be a move to discredit open souce if the CA panel finds that OSS is too insecure to use for elections.
This seems like a bad idea to me. All it takes is one stupid reporter jacking up a mass emotional response by saying the OSS operating system has "known security flaws with well documented vulnerabilities that anyone can download off the Internet" to result in an (appointed) ludite judge ruling the machines are too insecure to use for an election. Watch the lawsuits fly off the wall faster than attorneys can catch them.
Before the OSS party line is toed too closely I see this posing a far greater risk to the general acceptability of OSS than the marketing armies of proprietary software companies.
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What normally takes say 10 seconds with Word took over 15 mins! I assumed that this was a one time hit converting from MS Office format, so I saved the document in OO native format so I would subsequently time opening from the native format. Took 15 mins to save the bloody thing and the same to open it again.
I've seen that with every version of StarOffice I've used. What drastically improved it for me was saving the original Word format in.RTF or.HTML and then opening in StarOffice, saving as a StarOffice document, and running with that.
Speed was greatly improved once I was 'divorced' from the.doc format, which I presume happened when I saved as.RTF or.HTML in MS Word.
Many Google acolytes like to point out that Google already grabs much of the web in its entirety, which is copyrighted by default.
This statement is far too general. Could not the same claim be made of any sytem that categorizes books and journals so a potential user locates them - like a library card catalog?
Pointing to a resource is a much different animal than illegally copying the resource for one's own gain - financial or otherwise.
Furthermore, the prohibition of copying copyrighted works specified in Section 108 of the copyright act is for libraries and archives, and even there specifies a copy can be made if the copyright notice is maintained, it's not for financial gain, and isn't available to people outside of library/archive premises. See: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108.
Of course, the idea of 'premises' is laughable in the Age of the Internet, but I think the point you tried to make citing Section 108 is a real stretch and in no way bears any resemblance to what the law intends.
I'd argue that satire is information. It would be very interesting if Wikipedia (which I use often - some weeks daily) contained a "Satirical" link - pointing to the Uncyclopedia entry.
Given how political commentary is often satirical, it would provide an interesting angle on Wikipedia entries. Especially those of a historical/ political nature.
Also, what a great editorial tool! If a satirical entry closely matches a Wikipedia entry, the result would be better informed discussion around an entry's meaning - in both systems!
Why does the school have the SSN's of all the students? They can't all be getting financial aid, or be employed by the school.
Anything can happen at a school called "Miami University" located in Oxford, Ohio. Up until about 20 minutes I thought Miami University was in Florida, United States; and that Oxford was in England.
It's no damn wonder they lost files! Google maps couldn't find a Miami University in Oxford, Ohio!
Back then we carried around sheets of paper with our information. Some used a redundancy method known as "carbon copy" - in which the user would write once and the data would be recorded in many places.
Though I had to physically walk miles to track down professors without watches, the data was always securely stored in the back pocket of my jeans or stuffed into my backpack.
Best of all, we relied upon social engineering security and things like locked wooden file cabinets. The security team was staffed by should-have-already-retired women who hated all people and wore too-tight pastel colored polyester blouses and shirts. But nothing got past them.
Sites like this can be useful for frank discussion of the merrits/ failings of a person or company, but they are also frequently abused.
Yes, it's too bad free speech can't bear the cost of personal responsibility - all of which comes down to one's integrity. Sites like these, which don't carry even the slightest amount of responsibility - like the poster's full name - are essentially worthless.
These may make interesting transports based upon the last few wars the U.S. has been in (or created for the hell of it, too!).
Gulf War I & II
These wars both had lengthly start-up cycles with lots of troops, hardware, and materials piled up waiting for deployment. Getting things to and from rear deployment areas would be prime candidates for a ship like this.
Balkans (under Gen. Clark)
Though this was won without U.S. troop involvement on the ground, like the Gulf Wars we had large staging areas that needed materials sent to them. Compound that with the rough terrain and close quarters and poor infrastructure (roads and bridges) this would have been an interesting ship.
Afghanistan
This was is now suffering from some states revoking airport access. Assuming some areas are air secure getting stuff into Afghanistan or around Afghanistan could potentially be done with this ship.
Disaster Response
If weather was calm enough what a great way to get a bunch of stuff from a nearby access point (say an uneffected airport or major interstate interchange) to an effected area. This would have the capability of hauling in lots of stuff real quick.
Remember: just because DARPA is designing it doesn't make it's role a direct combat one. As a support vehicle this isn't a bad idea.
"Do you want one device that cooks your meals, washes the dishes AND entertains you while you eat?"
Yeah, that's a crock of you know what! I've been married for 12 years. Guess who cooks nearly every night? Me. We have a dish washer that does the dishes - so that doesn't count. And non-stop talking on someone else's part isn't entertainment.
Of all my computing friends/ family that us IE I know of one who actually back their data up. Only one.
Of all those I know who use a Mac they either back up their stuff to.Mac or an iPod or some other external media.
Linux? Well, those guys I don't understand but they seem to have a lot of computers that are connected, backing each other up.
Consider the need to use IE "victim rites"...
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If any third party online service succeeded, the current music industry would be toast.
I think this is the crux of the issue. The labels currently own the product and the means of distribution. Anyone who has taken macro economics 101 knows enough to see that losing control of the means of distribution is probably a larger threat to music labels than losing ownership of the product - which they sort of have, in their struggle to keep from copying and distributing on their own (which brings us back to the means of distribution).
They are losing control in much the same way Kodak lost control of the photograph market and the same way Microsoft is now losing control. Control becomes more important than product quality because as control increases quality and innovation can decrease.
The month and year I graduated from high school. Karen Velez. http://usedmagazines.com/titles/Playboy/1985/
All of your solutions are about publishing on the web, with the possible exception of podcasting, which you could argue is mp3 player-based. What about ebooks? There are several available for most major PDA platforms, some that WYSIWYG based and others that import from ASCII or HTML.
Listen people, only Mexican corporations will migrated to Linux based on licensing costs. The rest of the world doesn't give shit.
Well, except for most of the folks here at /. who run Linux. Oh, and of course, the organization whose move generated the topic for this post, Australia's NSW Office of State Revenue.
Star Office 8 is to Office 12 as ... Roast beef on wheat sandwich in a public park is to 12oz Angus steak with baked potato and nice California wine in a restauraunt that requires reservations (or you could sneak in through the kitchen).
Which is to say Star Office 8 is just a nutritious as an expensive steak dinner but it doesn't require as much expense or overhead?
With an onboard MP3 player, phone, storage capacity, probably bluetooth, probably an address book and calendar, probably some games, wallpaper, and so on we should just call them ... computers! ;-)
Oh and it's got a very nice mp3 player and a 2 Mpixel camera to boot! I love that little thing...
Wow! At what points do we stop calling these things phones and start calling them somthing else? What is it? A storage device, MP3 player, digital camera, or phone? Sooner or later someone will have to come up with a decent name for these things!
The mayhem from an OSS voting system in California could be potentially horrible for open source software. It's impossible to have an election with paper and pencil that doesn't get scrutinized. Hell, it was impossible for Florida to have an election with punch cards.
If paper and pencil or styli and punch cards can be questioned open source could be trashed by the media and politicans alike. It won't be long before Microsoft and HP roll out their own 'secure' and 'trusted' and 'robust' solution to mop up the mess.
This could also be a move to discredit open souce if the CA panel finds that OSS is too insecure to use for elections.
This seems like a bad idea to me. All it takes is one stupid reporter jacking up a mass emotional response by saying the OSS operating system has "known security flaws with well documented vulnerabilities that anyone can download off the Internet" to result in an (appointed) ludite judge ruling the machines are too insecure to use for an election. Watch the lawsuits fly off the wall faster than attorneys can catch them.
Before the OSS party line is toed too closely I see this posing a far greater risk to the general acceptability of OSS than the marketing armies of proprietary software companies.
This will run awry with the new obscenity crack down that seems to be brewing in the U.S.
http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/innovation/
What normally takes say 10 seconds with Word took over 15 mins! I assumed that this was a one time hit converting from MS Office format, so I saved the document in OO native format so I would subsequently time opening from the native format. Took 15 mins to save the bloody thing and the same to open it again.
I've seen that with every version of StarOffice I've used. What drastically improved it for me was saving the original Word format in .RTF or .HTML and then opening in StarOffice, saving as a StarOffice document, and running with that.
Speed was greatly improved once I was 'divorced' from the .doc format, which I presume happened when I saved as .RTF or .HTML in MS Word.
Many Google acolytes like to point out that Google already grabs much of the web in its entirety, which is copyrighted by default.
This statement is far too general. Could not the same claim be made of any sytem that categorizes books and journals so a potential user locates them - like a library card catalog?
Pointing to a resource is a much different animal than illegally copying the resource for one's own gain - financial or otherwise.
Furthermore, the prohibition of copying copyrighted works specified in Section 108 of the copyright act is for libraries and archives, and even there specifies a copy can be made if the copyright notice is maintained, it's not for financial gain, and isn't available to people outside of library/archive premises. See: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#108.
Of course, the idea of 'premises' is laughable in the Age of the Internet, but I think the point you tried to make citing Section 108 is a real stretch and in no way bears any resemblance to what the law intends.
We should charge for the right to name Hurricanes. Why stop at coporate 'sponsored' sport venues?
I'd argue that satire is information. It would be very interesting if Wikipedia (which I use often - some weeks daily) contained a "Satirical" link - pointing to the Uncyclopedia entry.
Given how political commentary is often satirical, it would provide an interesting angle on Wikipedia entries. Especially those of a historical/ political nature.
Also, what a great editorial tool! If a satirical entry closely matches a Wikipedia entry, the result would be better informed discussion around an entry's meaning - in both systems!
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Haliburton is a county in Ontario. Halliburton is different.
Is the county seat for Haliburton a town named "Cheney?"
Did I read that right in the article? They're only budgeting $200M to deploy a nationwide wireless network?
The Canadians are not using Haliburton.
Lego is also losing money hand over fist....
Can you provide data to support this? Any linkage?
Why does the school have the SSN's of all the students? They can't all be getting financial aid, or be employed by the school.
Anything can happen at a school called "Miami University" located in Oxford, Ohio. Up until about 20 minutes I thought Miami University was in Florida, United States; and that Oxford was in England.
It's no damn wonder they lost files! Google maps couldn't find a Miami University in Oxford, Ohio!
Back then we carried around sheets of paper with our information. Some used a redundancy method known as "carbon copy" - in which the user would write once and the data would be recorded in many places.
Though I had to physically walk miles to track down professors without watches, the data was always securely stored in the back pocket of my jeans or stuffed into my backpack.
Best of all, we relied upon social engineering security and things like locked wooden file cabinets. The security team was staffed by should-have-already-retired women who hated all people and wore too-tight pastel colored polyester blouses and shirts. But nothing got past them.
Sites like this can be useful for frank discussion of the merrits/ failings of a person or company, but they are also frequently abused.
Yes, it's too bad free speech can't bear the cost of personal responsibility - all of which comes down to one's integrity. Sites like these, which don't carry even the slightest amount of responsibility - like the poster's full name - are essentially worthless.
These may make interesting transports based upon the last few wars the U.S. has been in (or created for the hell of it, too!).
Gulf War I & II
These wars both had lengthly start-up cycles with lots of troops, hardware, and materials piled up waiting for deployment. Getting things to and from rear deployment areas would be prime candidates for a ship like this.
Balkans (under Gen. Clark)
Though this was won without U.S. troop involvement on the ground, like the Gulf Wars we had large staging areas that needed materials sent to them. Compound that with the rough terrain and close quarters and poor infrastructure (roads and bridges) this would have been an interesting ship.
Afghanistan
This was is now suffering from some states revoking airport access. Assuming some areas are air secure getting stuff into Afghanistan or around Afghanistan could potentially be done with this ship.
Disaster Response
If weather was calm enough what a great way to get a bunch of stuff from a nearby access point (say an uneffected airport or major interstate interchange) to an effected area. This would have the capability of hauling in lots of stuff real quick.
Remember: just because DARPA is designing it doesn't make it's role a direct combat one. As a support vehicle this isn't a bad idea.
"Do you want one device that cooks your meals, washes the dishes AND entertains you while you eat?"
Yeah, that's a crock of you know what! I've been married for 12 years. Guess who cooks nearly every night? Me. We have a dish washer that does the dishes - so that doesn't count. And non-stop talking on someone else's part isn't entertainment.
The discovery adds further weight to the view that human evolution is still a work in progres...
Does this mean the brain is intelligently designing itself?
Imagine that! Kansas preaches with the Bible in one hand and On the Origins of Species in the other!
Of all my computing friends/ family that us IE I know of one who actually back their data up. Only one. Of all those I know who use a Mac they either back up their stuff to .Mac or an iPod or some other external media.
Linux? Well, those guys I don't understand but they seem to have a lot of computers that are connected, backing each other up.
Consider the need to use IE "victim rites" ...