Their "list price" is usually well above the MSRP, and if you haggle, they'll bring it down, "special for you", to a price just around MSRP. No sweet deal.
Best you come armed with an ad from a competitor or a national chain showing what street price really is for the item you want.
I'm a session musician (keyboards), and not on the biz side, but here's my cynical view on what you missed-
1. You skipped the step where the record promoter spends tens of thousands to bribe radio station program directors to give a track airplay... just having a good sounding song doesn't guarantee you any airplay at all, not in this biz.
2. Also, you skipped the role of producer. Sure, you might have a band with talent and an audio engineer who can clean up and mixdown what they record, but who's gonna creatively bridge the gap between the band's idea of what sounds good, and what the listening public/program directors want to hear?
That's what a good producer does. Relative to the number of bands out there, the pool of talented producers is small. A good producer gets lots of work, coz s/he can transform an album full of good ideas into an album people must have.
3. Also, the idea that PCs are all the recording gear you need is nice, and functionally they fulfill the role. But the quality isn't there. At the very least, you need and SPDIF sound card and outboard A/D converters, situated outside the PC's very noisy case (crosstalk), to get mic and other analog inputs onto the hard drive without interference. And most sound cards sample at most 48kHz, whereas hard drive and DAT recorders will record up to 124kHz, essential because the mixdown, esp. large multitrack mixdowns, causes a reduction in overall quality.
4. And also a really fast PC to handle multitrack. IMO, nothing beats a full realworld mixing console for quick work. Using a mouse to adjust faders/sliders onscreen would be the rw studio equivalent of tying one hand behind your back and using a chopstick to make adjustments to the console! It's just too slow.
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Just send 'em a money order, same amount as a membership. That's the effect you're looking for by joining, right? Give 'em money to help fight the good fight?
Being a member of either the two orgs you mentioned gets you lots of paper in the mail. Save them the cost, save yourself the hassle, fight the doog fight!
Whether or not you buy this one, there'll be a convergence between current phone design and this thing.
You'll end up with a phone so light you'll end up losing it more often than your house keys, and probably have to clip it to your navel ring.
-schmaltz
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It tells you he doesn't know much about DDT and dioxin (he did say "generally"), but your answer shows you chose to pick one minor nit rather than contest any of the bulk of his argument. Not much different than a spelling flame -distract from the real issue.
Maybe it's coz you've got nothing to useful to contribute.
Most of your comments on/. amount to spelling, grammar, or usage flames. Something tells me you're a bureaucrat, or, worse, a network admin or sysadmin. Someone who finds petty reasons to deny things to people.
I just registered this domain name, and created a one-page (for now) site devoted to alternatives to Guinness beer, and documenting the ongoing thoughtcrime war Guinness is waging against domain holders.
And more importantly, how do we get the judicial system to have a clue?
The judicial system doesn't have to get a clue. It doesn't have the ability to "get" a clue. The judicial "system" is more-or-less the product of its inputs: namely, the cases and arguments made by plaintiffs and defendents, the judges that presided, and the case law that resulted. As a result, what you're seeing in the domain name trademark space is simply result of many decades perseverence by trademark holders and their attorneys.
Not to defend them, but Peta's certainly doing nothing unique, original or new in this regard. They're taking advantage of long-standing legal precedent which has recently been applied to domain names.
I don't know what made the client's profit versus non-profit status make a difference though; there's precedent for profit-making entities selling items parodying trade dress and logos. For example, Mad Magazine, Spy Magazine, even major newsweeklies (Newsweek for example, has run parodies of McDonald's trademarked logo.)
The folks running Peta.org could've done what Peta (and the American Cancer Society and many many more like them) has been doing all along -copped 501(c)(3) status (non-profit viz. IRS) and paid themselves very well.
For more in-depth info about trademarks, check out http://www.inta.org - International Trademark Association, whom I'm not associated with in any way.
to legally plunder any closed-source/info Microsoft wouldn't want the world to see, hand it off the DeCSS ditto-monkeys to make endless copies.
Here's an idea: know how check-kiting works? I write you a check for $100, you deposit it and immediately write me a check to cover my $100, which I deposit. Back and forth it goes...
Apply the same principle to "trade secret" info like Micro~1's phuked up kerberos thingy: a script which automatically keeps copies of the "illegal" data zinging around the net, always a step ahead of the law, never at rest.
AOL has a long-standing deal with former senior NSI officers to offer long-distance service to AOL subscribers through a company called Talk.com. The deal is exclusive, Talk.com operates AOL's long distance service.
It's particularly interesting given the amount of revenue Talk.com has been generating, on the order of US$516mil+ in 1999.
You don't need to be rich to get in on an IPO, of course it doesn't hurt.
No, but you do have to work at the company IPOing, or be an institutional, or be a source contributor, or close to the investment bank, to get at-the-opening share prices, right?
So, that crowd gets to buy low and sell high... leaving us out of the game, and only able to buy high and hopefully one day sell higher, right?
This seems like a scam, to me!! I mean, seems to me it'd be fair if anybody could place an opening order... kinda like Andover.
I'm a little perplexed: It's the end of the 20th century, the fight against racism has been waged publicly for going on fifty years.
What is GNU doing distributing a "joke" which mocks the stereotyped speech of Black people?
The little disclaimer on the first line -about a lex script called 'jive'- in no way excuses the bad taste and lapse in judgement which caused the posting of such a page to GNU's webserver. And by posting it on a webserver, they ARE, in fact, "circulating" it, contrary to the assertion.
If you argue that it's protected free speech? I answer that you must place higher value in your desire to hurt and humiliate others than you are truly interested in exercising freedom of speech.
This is shameful.
If you value the civil rights of all people, please, send email asking GNU to take down this _racist_ page: webmasters@gnu.org.
Reminds me of a joke press release from Borland Int'l a while back: "Announcing Turbo Cobol for your mainframe! BI really stands for Big Iron..."
Come to think of it, though this may be real, it could still be a trial balloon... Though IBM occasionally develops insanely alright technologies, it's known also for internecine warfare that kills said tech in the cradle... mainframe group killing multitasking o/s initiative (rumor from the middle 80's).
As legend has it, IBM's makes most profit from sales of hardware... so, so what if Linux is given free with a gigabuck machine, when the markup on the iron is prolly 200%!!?
And if you consider the version running under VM (VM/Linux? Linux/VM? ye gods..) it's just another application on a large timeshare appliance.
I don't see a conflict. This'll probably stimulate mainframe sales and free software dev. The word "Linux" has strong buzz and cachet, and even if the CIO doesn't "get" oss/gnu/etc, he's further increased his career trajectory by getting into the "latest" tech in a safe (and very expensive -think IBM tech support acolytes) way -but, hey, that's okay. Win-win.
Get ready... think device drivers... "XFree3270 has just announced support for the latest IBM BluHat(r) Linux kernel build (3.0.3) for S/390 processors."
Ugh. Even if it does become a reality, the "synergy's" gonna be upward, not so much downward, doncha think? I mean, what does IBM mainframe world, albeit running Linux, have to offer the single-user Linux world? Gotta think about that...
Creative as people like Carmack and other game developers are, it's still about The Biz. I know a mid-level exec from a major game co, and his work-talk isn't about games, techniques, developers, or even markets. What I hear from him is bottom line, expense accounts, perqs, distribution numbers -there's this thick layer of, well, Schmaltz, on top of the business of game copying and distribution.
I've never gotten a sense of comprehension of what players want, and how they're gonna get it to them. Course, he's in Manhattan, and people there tend to be work-and-income focused more than most other places I'm familiar with.
Basically the authoritative guild for trademark attorneys and professionals. Their website has much info on trademarks in the internet age.
(I was involved in building the site, so am familiar with the information.)
Contact your school's public relations or press relations office -ask them for a "trademark use" or "trademark policy" document. It'll spell out exactly what Purdue has, in fact, trademarked.
My take is, site content and domain name are separate issues. Your content, in spite of the disclaimer, is about Purdue U. Your domain name, however, isn't necessarily about Purdue U.
Netsol bends to court orders, and the courts rule based on whether you've made unauthorized use of plaintiff's trademarked material -use that doesn't fall into the categories of "fair use" or "permissioned use".
If your site's content is info or whatever about Purdue U., and your domain name is PurdueOnline.com, well, the court may rule that the domain does violate trademark rights of plaintiff, because your intent was to set up a site in reference to plaintiff's trademarked name (as shown by the content, go it?)
However, maybe the content is about something else named Purdue -a family, say- well, the word Purdue is a common name, and not in itself a trademarkable word. As part of a longer name or a logo, it would be (think poultry), but there are many entities with the name Purdue.
These are only my interpretations of what little I know. Go find yourself a nice IP attorney who knows trademarks and doesn't mind doing some pro-bono (free) work. Pitch it as a defining case, one which could potentially affect domain name relinquishment in future domain-trademark cases. Make sure the attorney doesn't already work the trademark-owner side of the street. Just ask him/her directly.
This is an age where anybody can set up a server or website, but organizations with millions or billions of dollars behind them set the rules for how we get to use the technology.
Citizens all, we are, but the few rule the many, and the monied rule the poor.
Good luck to you, and don't give up the fight.
-schmaltz
ps. Might want to consider contacting Purdue -the poultry company- and see if they want to bid on PurdueOnline.com. If you can't or don't want to fight the infringement case, well, sell the darn thing to the highest bidder!
Does Moore's Law apply to massively parallel, hand-built systems?
I wouldn't think so... At the time, Moore was running Intel, a one-CPU-per-machine outfit, and I think his "law" was an observation on the rate of progress in the PC industry, and what advancement was possible within the technology of single Von Neumann-bottleneck-style systems.
Lotus is a maker of information servers, so what do they care about content? they'll sell servers no matter what kind of content is out there! and, my guess, probably there's few porn sites running on notes anyways, being porn's one of the primary underlying issues.
US Gov't just 'relaxed' crypto rules... think a gift from their strategic Mid East partners made them feel easy about this decision? FWIW, the crypto export issue is, and has always been, a liberal dose of red herring, a neccessary distraction from the Real Issues. What are they, you might ask? Try the high-volume mutual call monitoring system Echelon, for one, not to mention the steady legislative erosion of US domestic telecom privacy rights. Check the fine print of the most recent telecom bill. Think the US is really interested in ciphered traffic between hackish types? Maybe for amusment purposes, but that's not the big ticket, baby.
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Their "list price" is usually well above the MSRP, and if you haggle, they'll bring it down, "special for you", to a price just around MSRP. No sweet deal.
Best you come armed with an ad from a competitor or a national chain showing what street price really is for the item you want.
I'm a session musician (keyboards), and not on the biz side, but here's my cynical view on what you missed-
... just having a good sounding song doesn't guarantee you any airplay at all, not in this biz.
1. You skipped the step where the record promoter spends tens of thousands to bribe radio station program directors to give a track airplay
2. Also, you skipped the role of producer. Sure, you might have a band with talent and an audio engineer who can clean up and mixdown what they record, but who's gonna creatively bridge the gap between the band's idea of what sounds good, and what the listening public/program directors want to hear?
That's what a good producer does. Relative to the number of bands out there, the pool of talented producers is small. A good producer gets lots of work, coz s/he can transform an album full of good ideas into an album people must have.
3. Also, the idea that PCs are all the recording gear you need is nice, and functionally they fulfill the role. But the quality isn't there. At the very least, you need and SPDIF sound card and outboard A/D converters, situated outside the PC's very noisy case (crosstalk), to get mic and other analog inputs onto the hard drive without interference. And most sound cards sample at most 48kHz, whereas hard drive and DAT recorders will record up to 124kHz, essential because the mixdown, esp. large multitrack mixdowns, causes a reduction in overall quality.
4. And also a really fast PC to handle multitrack. IMO, nothing beats a full realworld mixing console for quick work. Using a mouse to adjust faders/sliders onscreen would be the rw studio equivalent of tying one hand behind your back and using a chopstick to make adjustments to the console! It's just too slow.
Just send 'em a money order, same amount as a membership. That's the effect you're looking for by joining, right? Give 'em money to help fight the good fight?
Being a member of either the two orgs you mentioned gets you lots of paper in the mail. Save them the cost, save yourself the hassle, fight the doog fight!
Whether or not you buy this one, there'll be a convergence between current phone design and this thing. You'll end up with a phone so light you'll end up losing it more often than your house keys, and probably have to clip it to your navel ring. -schmaltz
It tells you he doesn't know much about DDT and dioxin (he did say "generally"), but your answer shows you chose to pick one minor nit rather than contest any of the bulk of his argument. Not much different than a spelling flame -distract from the real issue.
/. amount to spelling, grammar, or usage flames. Something tells me you're a bureaucrat, or, worse, a network admin or sysadmin. Someone who finds petty reasons to deny things to people.
Maybe it's coz you've got nothing to useful to contribute.
Most of your comments on
I just registered this domain name, and created a one-page (for now) site devoted to alternatives to Guinness beer, and documenting the ongoing thoughtcrime war Guinness is waging against domain holders.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/space/07/03/nasa.hack er.02/index.html
Not to defend them, but Peta's certainly doing nothing unique, original or new in this regard. They're taking advantage of long-standing legal precedent which has recently been applied to domain names.
I don't know what made the client's profit versus non-profit status make a difference though; there's precedent for profit-making entities selling items parodying trade dress and logos. For example, Mad Magazine, Spy Magazine, even major newsweeklies (Newsweek for example, has run parodies of McDonald's trademarked logo.)
The folks running Peta.org could've done what Peta (and the American Cancer Society and many many more like them) has been doing all along -copped 501(c)(3) status (non-profit viz. IRS) and paid themselves very well.
For more in-depth info about trademarks, check out http://www.inta.org - International Trademark Association, whom I'm not associated with in any way.
-Schmaltz
to legally plunder any closed-source/info Microsoft wouldn't want the world to see, hand it off the DeCSS ditto-monkeys to make endless copies.
Here's an idea: know how check-kiting works? I write you a check for $100, you deposit it and immediately write me a check to cover my $100, which I deposit. Back and forth it goes...
Apply the same principle to "trade secret" info like Micro~1's phuked up kerberos thingy: a script which automatically keeps copies of the "illegal" data zinging around the net, always a step ahead of the law, never at rest.
AOL has a long-standing deal with former senior NSI officers to offer long-distance service to AOL subscribers through a company called Talk.com. The deal is exclusive, Talk.com operates AOL's long distance service.
It's particularly interesting given the amount of revenue Talk.com has been generating, on the order of US$516mil+ in 1999.
You don't need to be rich to get in on an IPO, of course it doesn't hurt.
No, but you do have to work at the company IPOing, or be an institutional, or be a source contributor, or close to the investment bank, to get at-the-opening share prices, right?
So, that crowd gets to buy low and sell high... leaving us out of the game, and only able to buy high and hopefully one day sell higher, right?
This seems like a scam, to me!! I mean, seems to me it'd be fair if anybody could place an opening order... kinda like Andover.
Damn!
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/gnu.jive.html
I'm a little perplexed: It's the end of the 20th century, the fight against racism has been waged publicly for going on fifty years.
What is GNU doing distributing a "joke" which mocks the stereotyped speech of Black people?
The little disclaimer on the first line -about a lex script called 'jive'- in no way excuses the bad taste and lapse in judgement which caused the posting of such a page to GNU's webserver. And by posting it on a webserver, they ARE, in fact, "circulating" it, contrary to the assertion.
If you argue that it's protected free speech? I answer that you must place higher value in your desire to hurt and humiliate others than you are truly interested in exercising freedom of speech.
This is shameful.
If you value the civil rights of all people, please, send email asking GNU to take down this _racist_ page: webmasters@gnu.org.
-schmaltz
Reminds me of a joke press release from Borland Int'l a while back: "Announcing Turbo Cobol for your mainframe! BI really stands for Big Iron..."
... think device drivers ... "XFree3270 has just announced support for the latest IBM BluHat(r) Linux kernel build (3.0.3) for S/390 processors."
Come to think of it, though this may be real, it could still be a trial balloon... Though IBM occasionally develops insanely alright technologies, it's known also for internecine warfare that kills said tech in the cradle... mainframe group killing multitasking o/s initiative (rumor from the middle 80's).
As legend has it, IBM's makes most profit from sales of hardware... so, so what if Linux is given free with a gigabuck machine, when the markup on the iron is prolly 200%!!?
And if you consider the version running under VM (VM/Linux? Linux/VM? ye gods..) it's just another application on a large timeshare appliance.
I don't see a conflict. This'll probably stimulate mainframe sales and free software dev. The word "Linux" has strong buzz and cachet, and even if the CIO doesn't "get" oss/gnu/etc, he's further increased his career trajectory by getting into the "latest" tech in a safe (and very expensive -think IBM tech support acolytes) way -but, hey, that's okay. Win-win.
Get ready
Ugh. Even if it does become a reality, the "synergy's" gonna be upward, not so much downward, doncha think? I mean, what does IBM mainframe world, albeit running Linux, have to offer the single-user Linux world? Gotta think about that...
-schmaltz
Creative as people like Carmack and other game developers are, it's still about The Biz. I know a mid-level exec from a major game co, and his work-talk isn't about games, techniques, developers, or even markets. What I hear from him is bottom line, expense accounts, perqs, distribution numbers -there's this thick layer of, well, Schmaltz, on top of the business of game copying and distribution.
I've never gotten a sense of comprehension of what players want, and how they're gonna get it to them. Course, he's in Manhattan, and people there tend to be work-and-income focused more than most other places I'm familiar with.
Basically the authoritative guild for trademark attorneys and professionals. Their website has much info on trademarks in the internet age.
(I was involved in building the site, so am familiar with the information.)
Contact your school's public relations or press relations office -ask them for a "trademark use" or "trademark policy" document. It'll spell out exactly what Purdue has, in fact, trademarked.
My take is, site content and domain name are separate issues. Your content, in spite of the disclaimer, is about Purdue U. Your domain name, however, isn't necessarily about Purdue U.
Netsol bends to court orders, and the courts rule based on whether you've made unauthorized use of plaintiff's trademarked material -use that doesn't fall into the categories of "fair use" or "permissioned use".
If your site's content is info or whatever about Purdue U., and your domain name is PurdueOnline.com, well, the court may rule that the domain does violate trademark rights of plaintiff, because your intent was to set up a site in reference to plaintiff's trademarked name (as shown by the content, go it?)
However, maybe the content is about something else named Purdue -a family, say- well, the word Purdue is a common name, and not in itself a trademarkable word. As part of a longer name or a logo, it would be (think poultry), but there are many entities with the name Purdue.
These are only my interpretations of what little I know. Go find yourself a nice IP attorney who knows trademarks and doesn't mind doing some pro-bono (free) work. Pitch it as a defining case, one which could potentially affect domain name relinquishment in future domain-trademark cases. Make sure the attorney doesn't already work the trademark-owner side of the street. Just ask him/her directly.
This is an age where anybody can set up a server or website, but organizations with millions or billions of dollars behind them set the rules for how we get to use the technology.
Citizens all, we are, but the few rule the many, and the monied rule the poor.
Good luck to you, and don't give up the fight.
-schmaltz
ps. Might want to consider contacting Purdue -the poultry company- and see if they want to bid on PurdueOnline.com. If you can't or don't want to fight the infringement case, well, sell the darn thing to the highest bidder!
Does Moore's Law apply to massively parallel, hand-built systems?
I wouldn't think so... At the time, Moore was running Intel, a one-CPU-per-machine outfit, and I think his "law" was an observation on the rate of progress in the PC industry, and what advancement was possible within the technology of single Von Neumann-bottleneck-style systems.
-schmaltz
Lotus is a maker of information servers, so what do they care about content? they'll sell servers no matter what kind of content is out there! and, my guess, probably there's few porn sites running on notes anyways, being porn's one of the primary underlying issues.
US Gov't just 'relaxed' crypto rules... think a gift from their strategic Mid East partners made them feel easy about this decision? FWIW, the crypto export issue is, and has always been, a liberal dose of red herring, a neccessary distraction from the Real Issues. What are they, you might ask? Try the high-volume mutual call monitoring system Echelon, for one, not to mention the steady legislative erosion of US domestic telecom privacy rights. Check the fine print of the most recent telecom bill. Think the US is really interested in ciphered traffic between hackish types? Maybe for amusment purposes, but that's not the big ticket, baby.