The legacy companies will be in the same business.
EVERYONE will upgrade their networks to VOIP. It makes sense. The same paradigm as stoplights (switched network) versus stop signs (circuit network.) You can simply move more stuff around in a switched/ip network.
Regulation is just their way to buy longevity to their monopoly. Pay off some politicians, and kill the up and comers while you buy yourself time.
The technological innovation that has allowed America to remain ahead is rapidly degrading. It's ironic to me that this mindset is the same one that allows other countries to close the gap further.
As others develop space programs (China) and the modern weapons of warfare continue to proliferate, it seems we should be doing everything we can to maintain a technological edge. If we are all on the same playing field, shit will change dramatically.:)
It certainly does seem like a society in decline. But with rampant corporate ownership of government, can we expect anything less?
It'll be a long battle, but they really can't win.
All this strong arming is dependent on users identities. Well we are the ones with the nerds in our camp. Come on, how long before there's a P2P system that effectively hides their users identity?
Not long. This is only round 2. Smarter peeps are coding away as we speak.
Cassette tapes are more expensive to make...
so why still the premium for a higher margin product. Is it the sound quality? The lifespan? I suppose it's just what the market will bear. However, the market has carried the lumbering weight of these extortionists for quite a while now.
I really think that it's too late for them. They've alienated generation Y pretty severely.. and they are about to make it worse. In fact some would argue (and they did on NPR recently) that copywright law in general is now lost on Gen Y who flat out simply disregard the existing institution/laws. That is extremely dangerous. The RIAA cannot simply criminalize 60M people (which is the figure the same program was using for file sharer numbers.) That will never work.
Still 10 years away from their industry collapse... but $12.98 is a good baby step in the right direction.
When will we get a real, honest to god, as a format, music promoter?
It's an interesting development, the issue of spam and the internet.
Spam is certainly one of the causes of the story I heard on the radio about "people leaving the internet in droves" since it obviously decreases the usefulness of email. It also is obnoxious. These 2 things make the internet a very mixed experience for Joe and Jane Hicksville.
Ironically, it is also a large consumer of network bandwidth... which, working for a large networking monolith is good for my employment.
I'm personally comfortable with using a spamfilter, but on a larger scale, as many have said before, it is a major obstacle.
And on a seperate level entirely, there is far too little consumer protection associated with spam driven marketing campaigns to make them ever really legitimate. Your advertising, but how much truth need there be in your advertising? If it's such a legitimate business tool (or so they claim) then why aren't they associated with more legitimate business practices?
There are a number of mp3 streaming appliances hitting the market now, and most of them support the use of concurrent independent listening sources using the same mp3 library, served up to the codec/client appliance by a single server.
My favorite is at www.slimp3.com, which has the added benefit of being open source, but no optical output.
The playback quality supposedly varies quite a bit (by codec) from manufacturer to manufacturer. Do homework if you are purchasing at this point in time.
I'm a month away from picking up my own slimp3 and a wireless bridge.
I'm pretty sure all consoles are sold at a loss at the time of their release.
The console market is not about making money off the hardware. The console market makes money with licensing agreements and publishing contracts for the media and accessories. Not for the original box purchase. I betcha the PS2 loses just as much money on the hardware.
I've been using Spambully for Outlook for a few months now. Though it's not open source, it works quite well and has the added bonus of sending bounce messages if you want to the spam sender, as well as a challenge response mechanism to filter. There's a free trial.
Just an fyi.
As a vehicle to wrestle our American government away from corporate interests I would like to see it used for publicly funded, political discourse and campaigning.
I think all debates, party presentations, platform, town hall meetings etc, should be available (and probably limited to) any of the parties through a publicly funded broadcast network.
The point being that the money spent by political parties on access to the airwaves for campaigning is very tied to business interests due to the extremely high prices paid for access to that medium.
It seems to me that removing a business interest from our country's political discourse would drastically help.
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If this has something to do with caffeine affecting insulin production? The things I learned on Atkin's.
The legacy companies will be in the same business.
EVERYONE will upgrade their networks to VOIP. It makes sense. The same paradigm as stoplights (switched network) versus stop signs (circuit network.) You can simply move more stuff around in a switched/ip network.
Regulation is just their way to buy longevity to their monopoly. Pay off some politicians, and kill the up and comers while you buy yourself time.
Obsolete? That's hyperbole.
AT&T is in the midst of upgrading their junk to voip in their core.
This is just a way for the encumbents to keep the new guy down long enough for them to get entrenched, again.
The technological innovation that has allowed America to remain ahead is rapidly degrading. It's ironic to me that this mindset is the same one that allows other countries to close the gap further.
:)
As others develop space programs (China) and the modern weapons of warfare continue to proliferate, it seems we should be doing everything we can to maintain a technological edge. If we are all on the same playing field, shit will change dramatically.
It certainly does seem like a society in decline. But with rampant corporate ownership of government, can we expect anything less?
We need to find someplace to live when we destroy (or use up) this planet. I'd say it's relevant.
It'll be a long battle, but they really can't win. All this strong arming is dependent on users identities. Well we are the ones with the nerds in our camp. Come on, how long before there's a P2P system that effectively hides their users identity? Not long. This is only round 2. Smarter peeps are coding away as we speak.
I need to remember the formatting pulldown.
Cassette tapes are more expensive to make... so why still the premium for a higher margin product. Is it the sound quality? The lifespan? I suppose it's just what the market will bear. However, the market has carried the lumbering weight of these extortionists for quite a while now. I really think that it's too late for them. They've alienated generation Y pretty severely.. and they are about to make it worse. In fact some would argue (and they did on NPR recently) that copywright law in general is now lost on Gen Y who flat out simply disregard the existing institution/laws. That is extremely dangerous. The RIAA cannot simply criminalize 60M people (which is the figure the same program was using for file sharer numbers.) That will never work. Still 10 years away from their industry collapse... but $12.98 is a good baby step in the right direction. When will we get a real, honest to god, as a format, music promoter?
It's an interesting development, the issue of spam and the internet. Spam is certainly one of the causes of the story I heard on the radio about "people leaving the internet in droves" since it obviously decreases the usefulness of email. It also is obnoxious. These 2 things make the internet a very mixed experience for Joe and Jane Hicksville. Ironically, it is also a large consumer of network bandwidth... which, working for a large networking monolith is good for my employment. I'm personally comfortable with using a spamfilter, but on a larger scale, as many have said before, it is a major obstacle. And on a seperate level entirely, there is far too little consumer protection associated with spam driven marketing campaigns to make them ever really legitimate. Your advertising, but how much truth need there be in your advertising? If it's such a legitimate business tool (or so they claim) then why aren't they associated with more legitimate business practices?
There are a number of mp3 streaming appliances hitting the market now, and most of them support the use of concurrent independent listening sources using the same mp3 library, served up to the codec/client appliance by a single server.
My favorite is at www.slimp3.com, which has the added benefit of being open source, but no optical output.
The playback quality supposedly varies quite a bit (by codec) from manufacturer to manufacturer. Do homework if you are purchasing at this point in time.
I'm a month away from picking up my own slimp3 and a wireless bridge.
He Very Likely Does.
I'm pretty sure all consoles are sold at a loss at the time of their release. The console market is not about making money off the hardware. The console market makes money with licensing agreements and publishing contracts for the media and accessories. Not for the original box purchase. I betcha the PS2 loses just as much money on the hardware.
Forgot to mention that it's a bayesian filter.
I've been using Spambully for Outlook for a few months now. Though it's not open source, it works quite well and has the added bonus of sending bounce messages if you want to the spam sender, as well as a challenge response mechanism to filter. There's a free trial. Just an fyi.
As a vehicle to wrestle our American government away from corporate interests I would like to see it used for publicly funded, political discourse and campaigning. I think all debates, party presentations, platform, town hall meetings etc, should be available (and probably limited to) any of the parties through a publicly funded broadcast network. The point being that the money spent by political parties on access to the airwaves for campaigning is very tied to business interests due to the extremely high prices paid for access to that medium. It seems to me that removing a business interest from our country's political discourse would drastically help.