The inertia of habit, and production ramp-up timing, is my guess. Full market production might not be ready until Feb. or later (ramp-up), and they have a long-standing habit of waiting till MacWorld's to announce product (inertia).
Apple often loose out on the price-competitive angle by ignoring the bottom segment of the market completely.
So does Land Rover. Apple had decided to make higher-value products, and they're successful; a laudable example in these days of lowest price-pointvalue doesn't really matterbean-counter driven corporate cultures.
Apple builds a value-added product. Price-only buyers are going to be even less likely to use the 'other computer' than those who do appreciate the added value.
the 17" Powebook. I had to buy one, and I did. Then I saw an iPod, and drooled, and bought one. Then the G5 came out, and I bought a dual 2GHz G5 and a 20" Cinema Display
duh... it's called demographics, and we've got the big start on market research here, so, for the moment, we get more targetted ads, just give the rest of the world time to learn targeting.
When ads first appeared at movies here ('bout five years ago) they did tend to be longer and better produced, but they've quit producing significantly dif. ver. of TV ads opting to just re-air the same crap. Whether going for the shorter ver. was response to negative reactions to the ads themselves or cost cutting (I believe the latter) is beyond my knowledge.
The first time I saw an ad at a movie was in 1984 at a theatre on Guam, and it was an old Cigarette commercial (from the early 70s).
We would probably still be ad free at movies here if film distributors didn't rig there contracts to take 100% of admission for the most profitable first weeks of showings. Theatres really only have concessions and ads for revenue for the first month or so of a release run.
Elevator ads, if only it had stopped there (what movie predicted that? I'm sure it's another P K Dick short adaptation) ...we have ads over urnials...next my contacts will be free because they are chipped to provide ads...
If you are in the US, considering that each of those junk faxes is worth $500 to the recipient via penalty to the sender [ Mercury News ], keep the fax connected and collect your due.
The Nigerian scam started as snail mail. The low quality paper and rubber stamped 'letter head' and hand stamped postmarks gave the letters an interesting charm.
Hmm, much as I despise MS and would welcome its demise and hate to make the parallel -- editorials have continually announced Apple's imminent death for 20 years, and it's suffered much worse than a flat quarter or two.
Granted, Apple's average customer loves Apple as devoutly as a marriage vow decrees, and the average MS user feels more like a co-dependent in an abusive relationship. Even though Microsoft's current market position is more a result of inertia than momentum, so is reliance on fossil fuel technologies.
If we'd followed the predictions of the mid-70s, fossil fuels would have been supplanted by now. History shows that entrenched yet detrimental technology does not die quickly or easily without significant upheaval. While behind the scenes (servers and power users) there is a shift away from m$, the avg user and PHB will keep M$ around for quite awhile. They've already accepted mediocrity and will continue.
This will be another sector where the rest of the world begins to move on to alternatives faster than the US.
...and, so, MS calls for government intervention while shipping it's work offshore anyway,
Meanwhile, Wal-mart (now the largest company in the world) continues to drive jobs overseas by forcing its suppliers to continually undercut their own prices, and exerts downward pressure on the wage market.
Wal-mart is able to make profits from it's overseas stores, while MS just gets pirated or supplanted. Wal-mart will acquire MS (which will only be a management firm directing development in India) and distribute the Heifer (Angus, whatever) ver. of windoze for 15.95. Meanwhile, having shipped all it's promotion work offshore, the last surviving US industry (sorta) advertising will die...
Living in America, I miss out on the rest of the world's nicknames for our leader.
Just for the record, I'm in the U.S. Shrub is a very homegrown name for fearless leader. Not just U.S. homegrown, but from another Texan, Molly Ivins, at that.
As for my original post being American bashing, take it more as "we can't be respected if we can't see what the other guy sees." Bush just epitomizes the blindered view.
Basically, they sold specific usage rights to NG for publication. Typically, publication rights are very specific in where/how a work will be used (e.g., First-publication in North America in a serial publication exclusively until date xx/xx/xx and in reprints/collections thereof, and then restrictions will be specified).
What the photographers were arguing was that the original contract did not include the use on CD (in most such cases the contracts simple pre-date the tech). Because they did not grant specific rights to such use they were seeking compensation for the new use.
The disagreement comes from deciding when byte collections of work contracted for ink on paper become a new use.
Unfortunately, from my POV, these cases are continually being ruled in favor of the corporations.
Remember this, the value of a publication lies in its contributed art - articles, photos, illustrations, etc. Without the efforts of its contributors, it has no value.
When reprints and collections where just ink and paper, part of the reasoning to include such rights was multifold. Reprints and collections are usually done more as a courtesy for academic use than as a significant revenue stream. The added distribution was usually a small fraction of the original publication. It's a contribution to schools and libraries (primary audience of reprints etc).
With the advent of electronic repurposing of existing content, the idea that reprints serve a diminishing audience and unprofitable revenue stream no longer holds. In many instances electronic distribution actually increases the audience of a work. Without the existing art there would be nothing to redistribute.
To put it all another way, when the contracts were negotiated, the value/payment was assigned as an expense of producing a print publication. They artists compensation was based on that revenue stream. Now, NG has a new revenue stream for existing work. They don't want to add the expense of artist compensation. The artists want their share of the new revenue stream.
Comparing the cost of a used recording to any recording still in the revenue stream is a ludicrous comparison.
I'm not against reselling physical recordings, but it doesn't support anyone in the original production stream. You can't raise it as a valid alternative to purchasing music from a source that supports the artists (unless there is some amazingly egalitarian used record store that parses a royalty to the musicians). Buying used CDs does not equate to paying the artists for their music through an original sale source.
American English spellings are less prevalent world-wide than are the of British flavour spellings. Americans, despite anything shrub might tell you, are not the final word on everything.
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south of Boringville? Not even exciting enough to get annexed by Boringville, tsk tsk
The inertia of habit, and production ramp-up timing, is my guess. Full market production might not be ready until Feb. or later (ramp-up), and they have a long-standing habit of waiting till MacWorld's to announce product (inertia).
The iPod's gonna look tiny in Yao's hand.
So does Land Rover. Apple had decided to make higher-value products, and they're successful; a laudable example in these days of lowest price-pointvalue doesn't really matterbean-counter driven corporate cultures.
Apple builds a value-added product. Price-only buyers are going to be even less likely to use the 'other computer' than those who do appreciate the added value.
duh... it's called demographics, and we've got the big start on market research here, so, for the moment, we get more targetted ads, just give the rest of the world time to learn targeting.
hmmm, couldn't help thinking of the Simpsons episode with the "in your prefecture" video....
The first time I saw an ad at a movie was in 1984 at a theatre on Guam, and it was an old Cigarette commercial (from the early 70s).
We would probably still be ad free at movies here if film distributors didn't rig there contracts to take 100% of admission for the most profitable first weeks of showings. Theatres really only have concessions and ads for revenue for the first month or so of a release run.
Elevator ads, if only it had stopped there (what movie predicted that? I'm sure it's another P K Dick short adaptation)
...we have ads over urnials...next my contacts will be free because they are chipped to provide ads...
If you are in the US, considering that each of those junk faxes is worth $500 to the recipient via penalty to the sender [ Mercury News ], keep the fax connected and collect your due.
The Nigerian scam started as snail mail. The low quality paper and rubber stamped 'letter head' and hand stamped postmarks gave the letters an interesting charm.
Granted, Apple's average customer loves Apple as devoutly as a marriage vow decrees, and the average MS user feels more like a co-dependent in an abusive relationship. Even though Microsoft's current market position is more a result of inertia than momentum, so is reliance on fossil fuel technologies.
If we'd followed the predictions of the mid-70s, fossil fuels would have been supplanted by now. History shows that entrenched yet detrimental technology does not die quickly or easily without significant upheaval. While behind the scenes (servers and power users) there is a shift away from m$, the avg user and PHB will keep M$ around for quite awhile. They've already accepted mediocrity and will continue.
This will be another sector where the rest of the world begins to move on to alternatives faster than the US.
Meanwhile, Wal-mart (now the largest company in the world) continues to drive jobs overseas by forcing its suppliers to continually undercut their own prices, and exerts downward pressure on the wage market.
Wal-mart is able to make profits from it's overseas stores, while MS just gets pirated or supplanted. Wal-mart will acquire MS (which will only be a management firm directing development in India) and distribute the Heifer (Angus, whatever) ver. of windoze for 15.95. Meanwhile, having shipped all it's promotion work offshore, the last surviving US industry (sorta) advertising will die...
Where do I catch that boat to China?
...it's not shilling when it's for Apple.
As for my original post being American bashing, take it more as "we can't be respected if we can't see what the other guy sees." Bush just epitomizes the blindered view.
he might be making the over time, but your local government is paying it, all that promised HS funding isn't going to your local coffers
What the photographers were arguing was that the original contract did not include the use on CD (in most such cases the contracts simple pre-date the tech). Because they did not grant specific rights to such use they were seeking compensation for the new use.
The disagreement comes from deciding when byte collections of work contracted for ink on paper become a new use.
Unfortunately, from my POV, these cases are continually being ruled in favor of the corporations.
Remember this, the value of a publication lies in its contributed art - articles, photos, illustrations, etc. Without the efforts of its contributors, it has no value.
When reprints and collections where just ink and paper, part of the reasoning to include such rights was multifold. Reprints and collections are usually done more as a courtesy for academic use than as a significant revenue stream. The added distribution was usually a small fraction of the original publication. It's a contribution to schools and libraries (primary audience of reprints etc).
With the advent of electronic repurposing of existing content, the idea that reprints serve a diminishing audience and unprofitable revenue stream no longer holds. In many instances electronic distribution actually increases the audience of a work. Without the existing art there would be nothing to redistribute.
To put it all another way, when the contracts were negotiated, the value/payment was assigned as an expense of producing a print publication. They artists compensation was based on that revenue stream. Now, NG has a new revenue stream for existing work. They don't want to add the expense of artist compensation. The artists want their share of the new revenue stream.
any album for $7.99 used
Comparing the cost of a used recording to any recording still in the revenue stream is a ludicrous comparison.
I'm not against reselling physical recordings, but it doesn't support anyone in the original production stream. You can't raise it as a valid alternative to purchasing music from a source that supports the artists (unless there is some amazingly egalitarian used record store that parses a royalty to the musicians). Buying used CDs does not equate to paying the artists for their music through an original sale source.
easy overtime (paid for by Uncle Sam)
Uncle Sam isn't paying. BushCo cut that funding from the budget.
Yes it does! It might be the year of your lord, that doesn't mean I have to include him/it as mine.
.avi on a .Mac site!?!
American English spellings are less prevalent world-wide than are the of British flavour spellings. Americans, despite anything shrub might tell you, are not the final word on everything.
And a pear tree?
The pear trees were actually on sale. Watch the Flash.
9 dancers X 4 days = 36 dancers
4,230.89 / 36 = 117.52 ea. (definitely union)