What's best for Apple, musicians and music fans is if the labels don't exist at all.
The dynamic would work much the same way that it works now - except that musicians and Apple would take home more cash.
Apple are already involved in the production, manufacture, distribution and promotion of music. That makes them a record label, no matter what Justice Mann said.
They can't skip the intermediary labels and sign the musicians just yet, because most of their sales are coming from a back catalog that still controlled under the old paradigm - so if Apple starts signing bands, then their available catalog disappears.
So Apple is waiting for a quiet revolution, which the music industry could probably help along by creating the vehicles that will help artists get on to iTunes while they still own the digital distribution rights to their songs.
Or, why Ximian Evolution acts like a diffserv codepoint.
Ximian Evolution implements a concept called VFolders. No matter what folder any actual email belongs in (I have folders labelled Friends, Family, Management, Consultants, Admin and Spam), it can also belong to as many VFolders as you want - without a copy being stored there.
VFolders can be specified based on the value of any field in the email, as well as whether it's been read or not, as well as moving arbitrarily single emails to a VFolder on a whim.
So I have VFolders as well - each current and past consulting gig, each group of friends, the color blue, whether the title sounds clever, Mounds or Almond Joy, etc.
Very nifty. I have installed Ximian on my corporate, only Windows allowed laptop as well as every box at home.
What *should* happen is that the Governor should not have to have a higher bar to reach than the other candidates.
Instead, whoever gains the highest plurality of votes in the election should become Governor. At the moment, Gray Davis must get greater than 50% of the votes or he cannot become Governor.
Since some number, maybe 25% of the electorate, will vote for Governor Davis, this means that there will only be 75% left to go around. And that means that whoever is elected will not have a clear mandate. Instead, he or she will have a clear constituency.
Electoral politics is a lot like a High School dance. You have to dance with the one that brought you. If the new governor is elected by only 20% of the electorate, then the new governor will listen to that 20%. While it is not assured, the incentives certainly exist for some vastly unpopular programs to emerge.
If the existing governor had his bar lowered to be the greatest plurality and then all candidates held a run-off of the top two candidates after the initial election, it would guarantee that the person who took office was in fact the person who represented the will of the people.
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What's best for Apple, musicians and music fans is if the labels don't exist at all. The dynamic would work much the same way that it works now - except that musicians and Apple would take home more cash. Apple are already involved in the production, manufacture, distribution and promotion of music. That makes them a record label, no matter what Justice Mann said. They can't skip the intermediary labels and sign the musicians just yet, because most of their sales are coming from a back catalog that still controlled under the old paradigm - so if Apple starts signing bands, then their available catalog disappears. So Apple is waiting for a quiet revolution, which the music industry could probably help along by creating the vehicles that will help artists get on to iTunes while they still own the digital distribution rights to their songs.
Ximian Evolution implements a concept called VFolders. No matter what folder any actual email belongs in (I have folders labelled Friends, Family, Management, Consultants, Admin and Spam), it can also belong to as many VFolders as you want - without a copy being stored there.
VFolders can be specified based on the value of any field in the email, as well as whether it's been read or not, as well as moving arbitrarily single emails to a VFolder on a whim.
So I have VFolders as well - each current and past consulting gig, each group of friends, the color blue, whether the title sounds clever, Mounds or Almond Joy, etc.
Very nifty. I have installed Ximian on my corporate, only Windows allowed laptop as well as every box at home.
-Shulgi
What *should* happen is that the Governor should not have to have a higher bar to reach than the other candidates.
Instead, whoever gains the highest plurality of votes in the election should become Governor. At the moment, Gray Davis must get greater than 50% of the votes or he cannot become Governor.
Since some number, maybe 25% of the electorate, will vote for Governor Davis, this means that there will only be 75% left to go around. And that means that whoever is elected will not have a clear mandate. Instead, he or she will have a clear constituency.
Electoral politics is a lot like a High School dance. You have to dance with the one that brought you. If the new governor is elected by only 20% of the electorate, then the new governor will listen to that 20%. While it is not assured, the incentives certainly exist for some vastly unpopular programs to emerge.
If the existing governor had his bar lowered to be the greatest plurality and then all candidates held a run-off of the top two candidates after the initial election, it would guarantee that the person who took office was in fact the person who represented the will of the people.