Eventually, I do think the time will come when anything more than 5-10 years old that you want on CD will be recorded right there in the store, and only new CDs will be pressed, with all the accompanying liner notes and art. It will become just too cost-prohibitive to have backlogs of CDs sitting in a warehouse waiting to be shipped.
I'm not sure about that. It depends on the cost model you use. If you treat every one of those units as a fully priced CD then yes, its a lot of money you have sitting on the shelf. But if you think of every one as a $0.25 piece of plastic and paper that has no value until someone buys it (which is what they really are), then you can afford to warehouse a heck of a lot more of them.
And there's no wastage as older music is fairly non-perishable. Not like a warehouse full of beasty boy or JLO CDs - that would make a rotten smell real fast.
I think the record companies will fight like wolves for quite a while longer to prevent digital distribution starting up. Once they are no longer seen as delivering "units" people will start asking just what it is that they do do.
I heard from a saleman that they only claim to lose money. He said that in any business there is no way they will actually lost money by selling something but they just use it as an excuse as to why they arent making money.
Since you believe everything salesmen tell you, I have some software you might be interested in..heh heh..
You are naieve my friend. Plenty of businesses sell things that lose them money because they make it back, and more, in some other part of their business. Like Microsoft for example, on most of their product line.
For a real challenge, try P2P-ing the database
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The paper discusses "sharing of dynamic content generators, web services, and web applications" using P2P.
But as usual, the examples are of the trivial, "hello world" class.
In the real world, dynamic content and web services are linked to some back end database server. Doesn't matter what kind of fancy distributed malarkey you put in place, everything gets serialized back to a skinny pipe when you reach the database server.
Now a distributed database server based on P2P - that would be news. Oracle had such a project, code-named Andromeda, some 8 years ago but it came to naught cos it ain't that easy.
Soon as I saw the story on the front page I knew what awaited inside. Hundreds of posts from zitty geeks trying to be punker-than-thou by coming up with ever-more-obscure namedropping to make up for their lack of real style (or to pretend that they are actually old enough to have been involved).
Yet here you are, sampling the koolaid like the sap you are, putting the kidies in their place like some kind of venerable rutting stag who is pissed that the younger ones get all the young females and you're left with the withered old ones that can't escape your feeble approach.
Maybe you should hang out on some windows support board where you can talk about how every worthwhile program ever made can be run under DOS ??
man the last leonards shower was just freaking COSMIC man ! me and my buddy were like bathed in this ORGASMIC shower of sparkling lights that lit us up like day and they all sort of FIZZLED and spat GOLDEN SPARKS as they fell to earth igniting peoples barns and houses and domestic PETS that came howling past us on fire going arrrrooooow, arrrroooow !!!!!!!!!!
then again it could have been the acid talking since i dont know if we ever made it out of the trailer that night...
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I'm not sure about that. It depends on the cost model you use. If you treat every one of those units as a fully priced CD then yes, its a lot of money you have sitting on the shelf. But if you think of every one as a $0.25 piece of plastic and paper that has no value until someone buys it (which is what they really are), then you can afford to warehouse a heck of a lot more of them.
And there's no wastage as older music is fairly non-perishable. Not like a warehouse full of beasty boy or JLO CDs - that would make a rotten smell real fast.
I think the record companies will fight like wolves for quite a while longer to prevent digital distribution starting up. Once they are no longer seen as delivering "units" people will start asking just what it is that they do do.
Since you believe everything salesmen tell you, I have some software you might be interested in..heh heh..
You are naieve my friend. Plenty of businesses sell things that lose them money because they make it back, and more, in some other part of their business. Like Microsoft for example, on most of their product line.
But as usual, the examples are of the trivial, "hello world" class.
In the real world, dynamic content and web services are linked to some back end database server. Doesn't matter what kind of fancy distributed malarkey you put in place, everything gets serialized back to a skinny pipe when you reach the database server.
Now a distributed database server based on P2P - that would be news. Oracle had such a project, code-named Andromeda, some 8 years ago but it came to naught cos it ain't that easy.
Yet here you are, sampling the koolaid like the sap you are, putting the kidies in their place like some kind of venerable rutting stag who is pissed that the younger ones get all the young females and you're left with the withered old ones that can't escape your feeble approach.
Maybe you should hang out on some windows support board where you can talk about how every worthwhile program ever made can be run under DOS ??
then again it could have been the acid talking since i dont know if we ever made it out of the trailer that night...