Yea but if you agree not to increase bandwidth (Or even just match the increases of your competitors which is what they have been doing) then it doesn't matter.
Further because the government has allowed ISPs to limit connectivity (Port blocking, packet shaping) there isn't a good metric to measure speed between various networks (None give you full use of the bandwidth you pay for) so people can't really tell which are faster and which slower let alone at accessing individual resources.
Without a baseline (Full upload and download speed, something only the government would be willing to offer at this point) there is no metric of broadband quality, people just pay the minimum they can so $20 broadband will triumph and then the fees can start piling up...
Super, now small dev's won't be able to just sell games they'll need to maintain them.
And their revenue will be spread over years, good for big established dev's but really bad for small houses.
And of course this will fall into the hands of publishers not developers further tying the two together and breaking the new business models developers are using to get out from under.
Dev costs might be up but so are publisher %'s and they're not gonna stop until developers are work for hire.
The Japanese might care, there's an interesting article about a study of a Japanese Professor who tried to make CS more appealing to a Japanese audience.
The PS3 was assumed to be a winner in Japan, having most of the big name developers and an overwhelming marketshare last generation.
To be outsold by the 360, which has very limited Japanese content, must be a sticking point. If Sony wants the Playstation division to survive this iteration they need to keep the big name developers behind FF and Dragon Quest, to do that they need a significant Japanese marketshare.
The interesting thing about the keynote for me was that the ads in the lobby were in HD... American's don't have the broadband for it. European and Asian countries do, this isn't targetted at the U.S. where annonymous gaming is a mainstay this is targetted at social gamers.
Um then some force or energy is passing through the mass, moving faster than light...
Also I believe a group of scientists sucessfully proved that you can go faster than light using super cooled Cesium or something like that.
I don't understand why people are so hung up on this absolute speed of light thing, Einstein was a smart guy but so were Galileo, Newton and more recently Hawkings, and Hawkings says something > SOL.
String theory is all based around the concept that nothing can go faster than light.
I appreciate the whole shooting light off the back of a moving car thing (It goes the same speed forward or backwards regardless of your momentum) but that isn't nescessarily proof that it's the fastest anything can go.
Quarks don't rotate together with nothing between them.
In Canada for years we've had restrictions on ALL types of gambling, no gambling machines, almost no casinos etc.
Then recently we started to get casino's and now we have online gambling.
Already it is becomming an epidemic of addiction and it's destroying people's lives.
We have about 3-4 channels on basic cable showing poker each night.
It seems to mostly be hitting young people (some with young children who they will leave without the funds for University), and while they waste their creativity and effort trying to beat each other their lives are going to crap.
In conclusion thanks Slashdot for posting something I truly disagree with, it's actually refreshing.
No but maybe the government would be more lax on immigration from wartorn countries, provide health care to a few more people, or provide better education so less people wind up as gang bangers.
Imagine Prada bags on the street started being better quality than the originals Better Stiching etc.
Now imagine this happened consistently, suddenly "Knockoff Prada" becomes a better brand than Prada.
This is the same with Pirate Music, Pirate Music is better than Music therefore Pirate Music is the new hot brand.
What got me thinking about this is my knock off Rolex, I like it because it's heavy and well made (Well the band is nice, the internals are cheap) I got it for $1 in China (Along with 5 for friends), to find a comparable watch here would be at least $120.
If they just took the Rolex Brand off their watches they could make a fortune based on quality and price (Design is probably stolen though how much watch design changes eludes me).
If the music industry's don't move faster Pirate Music like Fake Rolex will become a powerful brand. And personally "I love my Rulaxtm".
Well actually the $15 subscription works in another case too... If you can release >15 good new songs a month.
Considering that they have the whole world to work with (5 Good songs from U.K. 5 U.S. 5 Canada or whatever eh?) isn't unreasonable.
The model for finding new music would have to be much better, likely this would be accomplished with something like last.fm instead of carrying about individual artists there would only be genre's for example a Grunge Emo (note second level of genre,making it even more specific)listener would be treated to the best new 15 songs that month. This model leaves no room for albumns or even artists because every band would only be as good as their latest single and that would be isolated in one genre (You can't listen to the best music from every genre in a month, well some people can).
As far as DRM goes this model doesn't make a diffrence. Because there is constantly being new music released you can either try and search for older music on p2p or you can get the new hotness that is specific to your tastes automagically from the labels.
Cue Valley Girl Voice "OMG that song is sO last month".
Pro sides of such a system, increadible levels of innovation, labels become increadibly dependant on artists (They need to find literally thousands of high quality songs a month to keep people subscibing instead of the one hit they try to find now).
Cons: Difficult for people to stop listening, when you do you'll be trying to listen to older music (Which you will still have but won't be as accessible, kind of like it is now). Makes the label's useful as they actually will have to search out new talent and produce it (By which I mean sound room tinkering and pop promotion in a matter of days) acutally I'm not sure if that's a pro or a con. They'd be producing value, but I hate them.
Wait problem solved! If they actually helped artists and produced value while trying to share music I wouldn't hate them!
New Dell Comp: Plz insert cd into win/Mac/linux PC attach both computers with USB.
Usr: (Does same)
Dell PC: Found Music, e-mail, documents,Video, Firefox Web Browser. Would you like to copy all documents, e-mail etc. and convert them to open source formats? (yes/No)...
Usr: Yes
Dell Pc: This will copy all documents accross in original format to a location on your desktop, converted versions will be placed in Music, Documents, Settings Folders as applicable... continue.
Usr: Yes.
Dell PC: 95% of stuff moved accross here's what we couldn't figure out and here are applications we don't know linux equivalents of... Hit continue to begin using linux.
For the price of the cigarettes the teenagers smoke
Dude cigarettes are crazy cheap in the third world, in fact just about everywhere but Europe and NA I started in Korea at about 25c a pack. Now in Canada they are about 9.99$ a pack... I agree with what you said just a bad example...
Sure he doesn't verify (We could if we weren't lazy... I'm sure slashdot readers have personal examples and there are news stories other comments will link to.) But it doesn't matter because he asks an interesting question, should we get municiple wi-fi and why don't we have it yet?
Kill it in the home, they need to kill it municapally. Once there is wifi Everywhere for free people will all start using wifi phones. No more cell phones no more crazy expensive cell phone service.
QED.
Considering the sorry state of VOIP and wifi-VOIP phones I don't think they have much to worry about though:(
Why must people assume that the Linux install will never be what they want, can't Synaptec Package Manager simply upload all the packages the user has installed Dell do an update, custom driver install, and add a script to copy settings accross for each app?
A while ago, WinXP developed a bug in the gui where No text showed up. Anywhere. I was still able to get around in it, the though kind of scared me, no icons no text but I could still get around because I'd memorized their bizare system.
And when I did want to do something that wasn't normal I had enormous problems (of course) but realized that none of it was really intuitive:(.
Fortunately windows has win+R (A cheap crappy version of bash) to run your apps for you:P
Government's lose money on their media, BBC is subsidized, CBC sibsidized, CNN subsidized.
These are the equivalent of cultural propaganda machines and no country can afford to fall behind.
The whole pokemon thing scared the crap out of U.S. parents and government officials.
For reasons why this is important see Korean War, Hearts and Minds, and fall of Soviet Union.
When people talk about movie gross they mention that movies never register a profit, it's funny how the IRS has lost it's teeth in that particular region of the U.S.
I propose a correlation between acceptance of the free market and High Speed internet deployment.
I think you'll find this holds true in most countries, Canada More government involvement Better internet. China Same. Sweden, England, France, Germany (Check Check Check)...
Nigeria has about the same level of capitalist exploitation.... They probably have better internet though.
With the proposed solution there would be no way to write over half the bits, no deleting or reclaiming used space in any way. Think writing on paper, or a simple chemical reaction or something similar.
Slashdot Mirror
This is a little more public than Exxon having the CIA on speed dial.
Yea but if you agree not to increase bandwidth (Or even just match the increases of your competitors which is what they have been doing) then it doesn't matter.
Further because the government has allowed ISPs to limit connectivity (Port blocking, packet shaping) there isn't a good metric to measure speed between various networks (None give you full use of the bandwidth you pay for) so people can't really tell which are faster and which slower let alone at accessing individual resources.
Without a baseline (Full upload and download speed, something only the government would be willing to offer at this point) there is no metric of broadband quality, people just pay the minimum they can so $20 broadband will triumph and then the fees can start piling up...
Super, now small dev's won't be able to just sell games they'll need to maintain them.
And their revenue will be spread over years, good for big established dev's but really bad for small houses.
And of course this will fall into the hands of publishers not developers further tying the two together and breaking the new business models developers are using to get out from under.
Dev costs might be up but so are publisher %'s and they're not gonna stop until developers are work for hire.
The Japanese might care, there's an interesting article about a study of a Japanese Professor who tried to make CS more appealing to a Japanese audience.
The PS3 was assumed to be a winner in Japan, having most of the big name developers and an overwhelming marketshare last generation.
To be outsold by the 360, which has very limited Japanese content, must be a sticking point. If Sony wants the Playstation division to survive this iteration they need to keep the big name developers behind FF and Dragon Quest, to do that they need a significant Japanese marketshare.
The interesting thing about the keynote for me was that the ads in the lobby were in HD... American's don't have the broadband for it. European and Asian countries do, this isn't targetted at the U.S. where annonymous gaming is a mainstay this is targetted at social gamers.
Hypocrite is not a dirty word in the U.S. and you have to remember that when you talk to Americans.
They never see it on the news, if they did they wouldn't care.
In fact I'd bet 3/10 Americans don't even know what it means.
But of course that's trying to make them follow our values, and that's not ok... So speak on Bush we're rapt.
Um then some force or energy is passing through the mass, moving faster than light...
Also I believe a group of scientists sucessfully proved that you can go faster than light using super cooled Cesium or something like that.
I don't understand why people are so hung up on this absolute speed of light thing, Einstein was a smart guy but so were Galileo, Newton and more recently Hawkings, and Hawkings says something > SOL.
String theory is all based around the concept that nothing can go faster than light.
I appreciate the whole shooting light off the back of a moving car thing (It goes the same speed forward or backwards regardless of your momentum) but that isn't nescessarily proof that it's the fastest anything can go.
Quarks don't rotate together with nothing between them.
In Canada for years we've had restrictions on ALL types of gambling, no gambling machines, almost no casinos etc.
Then recently we started to get casino's and now we have online gambling.
Already it is becomming an epidemic of addiction and it's destroying people's lives.
We have about 3-4 channels on basic cable showing poker each night.
It seems to mostly be hitting young people (some with young children who they will leave without the funds for University), and while they waste their creativity and effort trying to beat each other their lives are going to crap.
In conclusion thanks Slashdot for posting something I truly disagree with, it's actually refreshing.
No but maybe the government would be more lax on immigration from wartorn countries, provide health care to a few more people, or provide better education so less people wind up as gang bangers.
Like the win2k to Vista upgrade script. Or 98 to XP or ... etc.
:)
Rip off ideas, we're open source
Open Souce Advocate meets pirate.
Debate, Illegal + Legal is better than just Legal vs Getting arrested sucks and we don't get better stealing.
Conclusion: Homebrew SHOULD be able to compete with legal and getting arrested DOES suck.
True, here's two examples.
Imagine Prada bags on the street started being better quality than the originals Better Stiching etc.
Now imagine this happened consistently, suddenly "Knockoff Prada" becomes a better brand than Prada.
This is the same with Pirate Music, Pirate Music is better than Music therefore Pirate Music is the new hot brand.
What got me thinking about this is my knock off Rolex, I like it because it's heavy and well made (Well the band is nice, the internals are cheap) I got it for $1 in China (Along with 5 for friends), to find a comparable watch here would be at least $120.
If they just took the Rolex Brand off their watches they could make a fortune based on quality and price (Design is probably stolen though how much watch design changes eludes me).
If the music industry's don't move faster Pirate Music like Fake Rolex will become a powerful brand. And personally "I love my Rulaxtm".
Rulex
Well actually the $15 subscription works in another case too... If you can release >15 good new songs a month.
Considering that they have the whole world to work with (5 Good songs from U.K. 5 U.S. 5 Canada or whatever eh?) isn't unreasonable.
The model for finding new music would have to be much better, likely this would be accomplished with something like last.fm instead of carrying about individual artists there would only be genre's for example a Grunge Emo (note second level of genre,making it even more specific)listener would be treated to the best new 15 songs that month. This model leaves no room for albumns or even artists because every band would only be as good as their latest single and that would be isolated in one genre (You can't listen to the best music from every genre in a month, well some people can).
As far as DRM goes this model doesn't make a diffrence. Because there is constantly being new music released you can either try and search for older music on p2p or you can get the new hotness that is specific to your tastes automagically from the labels.
Cue Valley Girl Voice "OMG that song is sO last month".
Pro sides of such a system, increadible levels of innovation, labels become increadibly dependant on artists (They need to find literally thousands of high quality songs a month to keep people subscibing instead of the one hit they try to find now).
Cons: Difficult for people to stop listening, when you do you'll be trying to listen to older music (Which you will still have but won't be as accessible, kind of like it is now). Makes the label's useful as they actually will have to search out new talent and produce it (By which I mean sound room tinkering and pop promotion in a matter of days) acutally I'm not sure if that's a pro or a con. They'd be producing value, but I hate them.
Wait problem solved! If they actually helped artists and produced value while trying to share music I wouldn't hate them!
Script begin:
:End Script.
New Dell Comp: Plz insert cd into win/Mac/linux PC attach both computers with USB.
Usr: (Does same)
Dell PC: Found Music, e-mail, documents,Video, Firefox Web Browser. Would you like to copy all documents, e-mail etc. and convert them to open source formats? (yes/No)...
Usr: Yes
Dell Pc: This will copy all documents accross in original format to a location on your desktop, converted versions will be placed in Music, Documents, Settings Folders as applicable... continue.
Usr: Yes.
Dell PC: 95% of stuff moved accross here's what we couldn't figure out and here are applications we don't know linux equivalents of... Hit continue to begin using linux.
For the price of the cigarettes the teenagers smoke
Dude cigarettes are crazy cheap in the third world, in fact just about everywhere but Europe and NA I started in Korea at about 25c a pack. Now in Canada they are about 9.99$ a pack... I agree with what you said just a bad example...
Sure he doesn't verify (We could if we weren't lazy... I'm sure slashdot readers have personal examples and there are news stories other comments will link to.) But it doesn't matter because he asks an interesting question, should we get municiple wi-fi and why don't we have it yet?
me without the help of municipal government.
Roads, Police, Electricity, Hydro, Banking protections, credit card protections. Need I go on... Try again dude.
Are these libertarians starting to bother anyone else?
Kill it in the home, they need to kill it municapally. Once there is wifi Everywhere for free people will all start using wifi phones. No more cell phones no more crazy expensive cell phone service.
:(
QED.
Considering the sorry state of VOIP and wifi-VOIP phones I don't think they have much to worry about though
Why must people assume that the Linux install will never be what they want, can't Synaptec Package Manager simply upload all the packages the user has installed Dell do an update, custom driver install, and add a script to copy settings accross for each app?
A while ago, WinXP developed a bug in the gui where No text showed up. Anywhere. I was still able to get around in it, the though kind of scared me, no icons no text but I could still get around because I'd memorized their bizare system.
:(.
:P
And when I did want to do something that wasn't normal I had enormous problems (of course) but realized that none of it was really intuitive
Fortunately windows has win+R (A cheap crappy version of bash) to run your apps for you
Government's lose money on their media, BBC is subsidized, CBC sibsidized, CNN subsidized.
These are the equivalent of cultural propaganda machines and no country can afford to fall behind.
The whole pokemon thing scared the crap out of U.S. parents and government officials.
For reasons why this is important see Korean War, Hearts and Minds, and fall of Soviet Union.
When people talk about movie gross they mention that movies never register a profit, it's funny how the IRS has lost it's teeth in that particular region of the U.S.
I propose a correlation between acceptance of the free market and High Speed internet deployment.
I think you'll find this holds true in most countries, Canada More government involvement Better internet.
China Same. Sweden, England, France, Germany (Check Check Check)...
Nigeria has about the same level of capitalist exploitation.... They probably have better internet though.
Ah, you begin to understand.
:P
Responding is responding
With the proposed solution there would be no way to write over half the bits, no deleting or reclaiming used space in any way. Think writing on paper, or a simple chemical reaction or something similar.
Kirby Canvas Curse Dude, rocked my little grey box!
They might not be covered on the news but I'm pretty sure corrupt politicians (And law enforcers such as judges) round out the top 5.