IANAE (I am not an economist) but this looks like bad news for the recording industry.
Lots of people buy songs for a dollar. After a while, they grow bored with some songs and they sell 'em on eBay. It is unavoidable that these songs will cost less than on apple. Heck, someone may offer a hundred LEGAL songs for a few bucks!
It seems like this is a 'boomerang' effect from the dot com time:
The "Against Us" email automatically get forwarded to Ashcroft.
Gueass again where that's going.. (and you along with it).. ever been to Cuba? I heard it's got this lovely bay with lots of friendly people in orange suits. Gua.. Guanta.. I can't remember.;)
The process is really easy. Get a TV tuner card that is supported under your favourite unix-like flavour, for instance a Hauppage BT 878. Open a remote X session and start the TV application. Voila. (maybe some reencoding should be done to get it all the way to france- 100 mbit works if you don't mind:)
In other news, I wonder what a beowulf cluster of these would take for bandwidth..
- Do not give students an 'open' environment (shell). They'll break out of it in no time and ignore the rest of the class. Even worse, they'll hack other students' (or the professors') computers and make a mess.
- Do not allow file sharing whatsoever EXCEPT via a main central shared folder. Any other way will eventually result in warez and pr0n.
- Do not allow e-mail or IMs to be read during class. Another disaster for non-class related communication. Better yet, disable all network communications except maybe port 80.
- Do not allow students to run non-approved programs. If they want to, they should use their home pc for that.
- Constantly run a sniffer on the class segment to check for 'abnormal communication'
Okay, maybe you can create some exceptions to these rules for the highest graders. But you shouldn't.
2) No more expensive systems to check callers phone account balance, source provider, target provider, inbetween provider(s), roaming plans, routing, billing systems. Only statistics would be needed for abuse.
3) No more phone company helpdesks
4) if you use a license-based system you can tax only the systems' users, like how the highways are paid for.
5) You will need only *one* antenna where you now have about 6. Don't these cost money as well? you can even make the system redundant using some of the current antennas.
Hmm, lots of opportunities for improvement, it seems. Will divert a lot of money to other uses, it seems.
If the governments would provide antennas this could work, or maybe private funds combined with the governments.
It's hard to imagine that the govs do not own some of the the fiber-optic cables in the ocean as well for their own uses and for reserve (future) uses. This may be this may well be such a reserved use: the cables can be used to link the worldwide systems together.
If the system would be paid for with tax money / entree fee and solar powered it might work. If it does it will save a lot of money..
The telco's will be piseed though............!
I'm wondering, shouldn't it be possible to set up your own GSM antenna in a heavily populated area and send a spam SMS to every GSM number that's in the neighbourhood (then immediately turn it off again to avoid detection...)
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is the Philadelphia School District selling out to Microsoft really the only way to achieve this?
;)
Maybe they should talk to SCO or VA Linux..
IANAE (I am not an economist) but this looks like bad news for the recording industry.
Lots of people buy songs for a dollar. After a while, they grow bored with some songs and they sell 'em on eBay. It is unavoidable that these songs will cost less than on apple. Heck, someone may offer a hundred LEGAL songs for a few bucks!
It seems like this is a 'boomerang' effect from the dot com time:
- offer songs online
- sell a few million
- ??
- Bankrupt!!
Hehe, I couldn't figure the correct translation. (and still can't --maybe the sun)
I meant: if you go hiking in one direction and keep walking indefinitely, you'll travel about 40.000 km before you're home again;)
And yes, I've seen that there are four figures behind the decimal point.
with a distance of 35.2196 miles
That's one whopping distance! Isn't the radius of Earth about 40.000 km? Or did they point the antenna in the wrong direction?
[insert obligatory beowulf cluster joke]
The "Against Us" email automatically get forwarded to Ashcroft.
.. Guanta .. I can't remember. ;)
Gueass again where that's going.. (and you along with it).. ever been to Cuba? I heard it's got this lovely bay with lots of friendly people in orange suits. Gua
Oh boy I hope this is not a hoax like this article featuring Junis and his Commodore 64 with TCP/IP by our all-beloved JonKats
(yes I know I misspelled his name. There's nothing I can do about that, can I now)
Just use a hardware mpeg-compressor. It will do great and deliver movies in realtime.
The process is really easy. Get a TV tuner card that is supported under your favourite unix-like flavour, for instance a Hauppage BT 878. Open a remote X session and start the TV application. Voila. (maybe some reencoding should be done to get it all the way to france- 100 mbit works if you don't mind :)
In other news, I wonder what a beowulf cluster of these would take for bandwidth..
Things NOT to do in class with pc's
- Do not give students an 'open' environment (shell). They'll break out of it in no time and ignore the rest of the class. Even worse, they'll hack other students' (or the professors') computers and make a mess.
- Do not allow file sharing whatsoever EXCEPT via a main central shared folder. Any other way will eventually result in warez and pr0n.
- Do not allow e-mail or IMs to be read during class. Another disaster for non-class related communication. Better yet, disable all network communications except maybe port 80.
- Do not allow students to run non-approved programs. If they want to, they should use their home pc for that.
- Constantly run a sniffer on the class segment to check for 'abnormal communication'
Okay, maybe you can create some exceptions to these rules for the highest graders. But you shouldn't.
1) Start National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD)
2) Oblige members to save instant messages
3) ???
4) Profit!!!
Everytime I read such an article I feel the need for some action.
So I downloaded the latest Britney Spears album and burnt it for my little niece.
Next time i'll download some Metallica..
(using pf here)
# assuming 1.2.0.0 is the network
# where the terminating signal computer
# is located)
block in all from 1.2.0.0/16
# assuming the 'kill' signal is interpreted by
# the OS as a 'kill' protocol.
block in all proto kill
This will save huge amounts of money because.
1) Marketing costs dramatically down to $0
2) No more expensive systems to check callers phone account balance, source provider, target provider, inbetween provider(s), roaming plans, routing, billing systems. Only statistics would be needed for abuse.
3) No more phone company helpdesks
4) if you use a license-based system you can tax only the systems' users, like how the highways are paid for.
5) You will need only *one* antenna where you now have about 6. Don't these cost money as well? you can even make the system redundant using some of the current antennas.
Hmm, lots of opportunities for improvement, it seems. Will divert a lot of money to other uses, it seems.
If the governments would provide antennas this could work, or maybe private funds combined with the governments. It's hard to imagine that the govs do not own some of the the fiber-optic cables in the ocean as well for their own uses and for reserve (future) uses. This may be this may well be such a reserved use: the cables can be used to link the worldwide systems together. If the system would be paid for with tax money / entree fee and solar powered it might work. If it does it will save a lot of money.. The telco's will be piseed though............!
I'm wondering, shouldn't it be possible to set up your own GSM antenna in a heavily populated area and send a spam SMS to every GSM number that's in the neighbourhood
(then immediately turn it off again to avoid detection...)