Long live reverse-engineering! Besides, apple wants to make money on the music, not the hardware. What harm could this be?
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Free evenings and weekends? Seriously, this isn't going to work. There will be abuses, a situation similar to the internic.net registry debale of a few years back, with everyone stumbling and fighting to be a registrar. Microsoft in charge? No thank you. Also, as companies get bigger, you know that there will be discounts for quantity. There are going to be proxy re-mailers popping up.
Secondly: There will be a skimming situation created, where your local ISP will skim off "pennies on the penny" to send emails. Also, if and when the "registrar" like situation comes into play, the large ISPs will have favorites.
Thirdly: This is just begging for government monitoring. I mean, the accounting would be in place, why would the government not want to use it?
BTW, maybe Microsoft and the gang are appealing to the government for this very reason...
THIS will be going around the religious channels like wildfire. They will be pointing out how foolish the "scientific community" has been for the past 100 years of this theory and show how the bible forsaw "a deluge of heavenly matter from above". This will be going on for centuries from now. Cataclysmic, to be sure.
Has anyone really found a good use for Yahoo? Categorized searches are dangerous and not even remotely relevant, and the results encourage bad searching habits. I cannot count the number of times I have had customers and family members tell me thay could not find a webpage based on a Yahoo or MSN search even one week after the initial search took place. Case in point: "Hotel Italy Frommers" will bring up extremely different results than a Google or Altavista search. A week later, the relvancy has changed completely, because of the new structured relevancy and changing of categories/subcategories. A search of the same type on G/A will still eventually turn up the same page, given a few more relevant search terms. I have tried for years to steer people away from "MySearch" and "Yahoo/MSN"-type engines, to no avail, and that job is getting no easier by the day, due to pop-ups and spyware. Granted, the Google/Altavista searches will still do a graduated ranking based on trademarks and web-address relevancy, but at least they are not categorized, unless you are using their "directory" service, which intends to emulate Yahoo's structured searches.
So: does the search engine really make any difference to the relevancy of searches for these types of search engines? For that matter, is the real-life relevancy of Google "directory" based searches really the result of the search engine, or is it based on the structure of the categorization schema?
I think someone had a screw loose when they wrote this article.
"There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't."
That's only 2 types of people, kow.
STUPID
Am I missing something here? What is the point of the US Army or any other organization trying to get gallons of oil from Kuwait (a protected seaport) to Baghdad? Baghdad is in the middle of Iraq! Aside from domestic use of the oil, what's the point? Getting it to Baghdad is only 1/3 of the way to anywhere it could usefully be transported. Sounds like military posturing to me to try to drum up support for this new H-cell tech, not a solution to move oil.....
One of my main concerns with search databases is the inhenrent ability for corporations to increase their visibility on the web by manipulating data to their benefit to bring their corporate page up first on the list. I wonder if there is a way for the database to have a scoring system based on the validity of the data: is the information there, or are there just highly develpoped metatags doing the work? If you do a search for a specific part number for an HP product, what are the cances of getting a) the HP home page where a further search would be necessary to find any relevant info or b) the big chains like Staples, Sircuit City who just want to sell you cartridges and have the time and resources to steer you in the right direction. How would the system be regulated? (kinda like Slashdot mods:P)? Who watches the watchers, and can information validity be electronically implemented? What kind of AI would be necessary?
Imagine the following:
The makers of GPSs and other mobile units might be behind this legislation (bear with the conspiracy theory here....) They would have two product lines, one WITH games and one without... You could have some units sold as "legislation x123 2003 compliant" and possibly charge more for less functionality. They could then be labelled as a more industrial-class application with all kinds of certifications (which aren't hard for companies like Motorola and Nokia, etc. to get) and be selling the same products for twice the end-user price and 10 times the profit. Especially with the commoditization of the marketplace in cell phones and PDA-type units, this could be the margin builder they were looking for.
Exactly! Let the recording industry (movies, music (am I forgetting something?) give us everything we want! Instead of the old business model which was designed to maximize profits in a segregated world, this market segregation will no longer work. Hold onto your profits by making it convenient and affordable to play nice.... I for one buy a copy of everything I like after sampling it off p2p. If it's not available or price way, way out of my price range, what choice do I have?
You're right about it not being a huge issue Stateside. However, it will be a huge issue outside of the US and Canada (where almost everything is simultaneous). Which brings me to my next point: Why are the US and Canada so in-sync in terms of media release schedules and standards, wether it be HBO or DVD region codes? Because we are so close geographically. In the new world (digital distribution, legal or not)order, the importance of geographical proximity is lessened to the point it is a matter of a few more hops and a bit more latency to get the contecnt you need. So: It will be a big issue because the media (a large portion, anyway) originates in the US. Regardless of piracy running rampant around the world, if the pirated content is of US origin, the US will wake up and take notice. Hopefully, instead of leaving sanctions in place (region codes and seperated release schedules), they will combine all media into one large push (which will increase their economies of scale anyway) and cut their losses at the source, instead of at the tail end, the pirating user and the p2p distribution models.
DVD region codes. This will be a huge issue this year, as discussed a few days ago in/. . The world market for digital content distribution will become just that: a world market. I for one am looking forward to getting the latest Coldplay album & singles at the same time as our friends in the UK, almost as much as they are looking forward to simultaneous releases of movies & TV shows. I think that real-time, same-day releases will become more and more prevalent (a la Matrix Revolutions release). THis will be the year that this becomes a big contested issue. It's also one of the best points for the p2p model.
Not true.... Many filsm coming out of that part of the world are gaining fans all around the world. It is truly a refreshing change from the trash we usually get here. There are going to be some duds. I am surprised, though, that they sell more tickets than Hollywood does. The net gross is nowhere near as LA.....
Seriously, what was more thrilling? The asteroid scene in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back or ANY particular sequence in Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones? MY vote is for ESB. Take, for example, the Asteroid scene: it was painstakingly created virtually frame-by-frame by real poeple. Watching it, you get a real idea of where the Millenium Flacon is and what it is trying to avoid. The 3-dimensional world was created without computers generating an accurate 3-dimensional world. It was created by a handful of people who had to think the scene out in their heads, and since their logic was dictated by the limitations of their capablities (which translate well to our capabilities to interpret the path of flight and pursuit) in creating a 3D world which was easily followed.
BTW, one of the asteroids is a potato. Why? The animators/model creators, cinematographers wanted to put their own indelible stamp on a great scene that they were proud of. How many animators would say : I modeled this scene after the (insert scene name here) in (insert Episode I or II movie name here)? How many do you really remember? The watches put on orcs in ROTK are the result of a few mouse clicks.
Absolutely. I think that everyone is seeing the distribution of free knowledge as beneficial to all mankind. Case in point: the decision lately of the New York Times to stop charging for access to their main news services and MITs recent course material offerings: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/173522 9&mode=thread&tid=146&tid=99. I just wish that our local paper would follow suit. (http://www.canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/loginprom pt?Category=TPNEWS16&AboType=SUBSCRIBE).
Only problem: It _is_ possible now for government agencies and others to monitor what you are researching and when, if we are on the internet. If one goes to the library and does research without checking out materials, we remain relatively anonymous. Not so with online searches.
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Long live reverse-engineering! Besides, apple wants to make money on the music, not the hardware. What harm could this be?
Free evenings and weekends? Seriously, this isn't going to work. There will be abuses, a situation similar to the internic.net registry debale of a few years back, with everyone stumbling and fighting to be a registrar. Microsoft in charge? No thank you. Also, as companies get bigger, you know that there will be discounts for quantity. There are going to be proxy re-mailers popping up.
Secondly: There will be a skimming situation created, where your local ISP will skim off "pennies on the penny" to send emails. Also, if and when the "registrar" like situation comes into play, the large ISPs will have favorites.
Thirdly: This is just begging for government monitoring. I mean, the accounting would be in place, why would the government not want to use it?
BTW, maybe Microsoft and the gang are appealing to the government for this very reason...
THIS will be going around the religious channels like wildfire. They will be pointing out how foolish the "scientific community" has been for the past 100 years of this theory and show how the bible forsaw "a deluge of heavenly matter from above". This will be going on for centuries from now. Cataclysmic, to be sure.
Has anyone really found a good use for Yahoo? Categorized searches are dangerous and not even remotely relevant, and the results encourage bad searching habits. I cannot count the number of times I have had customers and family members tell me thay could not find a webpage based on a Yahoo or MSN search even one week after the initial search took place. Case in point: "Hotel Italy Frommers" will bring up extremely different results than a Google or Altavista search. A week later, the relvancy has changed completely, because of the new structured relevancy and changing of categories/subcategories. A search of the same type on G/A will still eventually turn up the same page, given a few more relevant search terms. I have tried for years to steer people away from "MySearch" and "Yahoo/MSN"-type engines, to no avail, and that job is getting no easier by the day, due to pop-ups and spyware. Granted, the Google/Altavista searches will still do a graduated ranking based on trademarks and web-address relevancy, but at least they are not categorized, unless you are using their "directory" service, which intends to emulate Yahoo's structured searches. So: does the search engine really make any difference to the relevancy of searches for these types of search engines? For that matter, is the real-life relevancy of Google "directory" based searches really the result of the search engine, or is it based on the structure of the categorization schema?
I think someone had a screw loose when they wrote this article. "There are 10 types of people in the world... those who understand binary and those who don't." That's only 2 types of people, kow. STUPID
Am I missing something here? What is the point of the US Army or any other organization trying to get gallons of oil from Kuwait (a protected seaport) to Baghdad? Baghdad is in the middle of Iraq! Aside from domestic use of the oil, what's the point? Getting it to Baghdad is only 1/3 of the way to anywhere it could usefully be transported. Sounds like military posturing to me to try to drum up support for this new H-cell tech, not a solution to move oil.....
One of my main concerns with search databases is the inhenrent ability for corporations to increase their visibility on the web by manipulating data to their benefit to bring their corporate page up first on the list. I wonder if there is a way for the database to have a scoring system based on the validity of the data: is the information there, or are there just highly develpoped metatags doing the work? If you do a search for a specific part number for an HP product, what are the cances of getting a) the HP home page where a further search would be necessary to find any relevant info or b) the big chains like Staples, Sircuit City who just want to sell you cartridges and have the time and resources to steer you in the right direction. How would the system be regulated? (kinda like Slashdot mods :P)? Who watches the watchers, and can information validity be electronically implemented? What kind of AI would be necessary?
Imagine the following: The makers of GPSs and other mobile units might be behind this legislation (bear with the conspiracy theory here....) They would have two product lines, one WITH games and one without... You could have some units sold as "legislation x123 2003 compliant" and possibly charge more for less functionality. They could then be labelled as a more industrial-class application with all kinds of certifications (which aren't hard for companies like Motorola and Nokia, etc. to get) and be selling the same products for twice the end-user price and 10 times the profit. Especially with the commoditization of the marketplace in cell phones and PDA-type units, this could be the margin builder they were looking for.
Exactly! Let the recording industry (movies, music (am I forgetting something?) give us everything we want! Instead of the old business model which was designed to maximize profits in a segregated world, this market segregation will no longer work. Hold onto your profits by making it convenient and affordable to play nice.... I for one buy a copy of everything I like after sampling it off p2p. If it's not available or price way, way out of my price range, what choice do I have?
(to the tune of Don McLean's American Pie): "....the day....the regions...died. I was singing...Bye, bye Miss American Bias....."
You're right about it not being a huge issue Stateside. However, it will be a huge issue outside of the US and Canada (where almost everything is simultaneous). Which brings me to my next point: Why are the US and Canada so in-sync in terms of media release schedules and standards, wether it be HBO or DVD region codes? Because we are so close geographically. In the new world (digital distribution, legal or not)order, the importance of geographical proximity is lessened to the point it is a matter of a few more hops and a bit more latency to get the contecnt you need. So: It will be a big issue because the media (a large portion, anyway) originates in the US. Regardless of piracy running rampant around the world, if the pirated content is of US origin, the US will wake up and take notice. Hopefully, instead of leaving sanctions in place (region codes and seperated release schedules), they will combine all media into one large push (which will increase their economies of scale anyway) and cut their losses at the source, instead of at the tail end, the pirating user and the p2p distribution models.
DVD region codes. This will be a huge issue this year, as discussed a few days ago in /. . The world market for digital content distribution will become just that: a world market. I for one am looking forward to getting the latest Coldplay album & singles at the same time as our friends in the UK, almost as much as they are looking forward to simultaneous releases of movies & TV shows. I think that real-time, same-day releases will become more and more prevalent (a la Matrix Revolutions release). THis will be the year that this becomes a big contested issue. It's also one of the best points for the p2p model.
Thanks for the mirror. Mirror, Mirror, on the web, who has the most bandwidth of them all.........
Not true.... Many filsm coming out of that part of the world are gaining fans all around the world. It is truly a refreshing change from the trash we usually get here. There are going to be some duds. I am surprised, though, that they sell more tickets than Hollywood does. The net gross is nowhere near as LA.....
True, true.
Seriously, what was more thrilling? The asteroid scene in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back or ANY particular sequence in Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones? MY vote is for ESB. Take, for example, the Asteroid scene: it was painstakingly created virtually frame-by-frame by real poeple. Watching it, you get a real idea of where the Millenium Flacon is and what it is trying to avoid. The 3-dimensional world was created without computers generating an accurate 3-dimensional world. It was created by a handful of people who had to think the scene out in their heads, and since their logic was dictated by the limitations of their capablities (which translate well to our capabilities to interpret the path of flight and pursuit) in creating a 3D world which was easily followed. BTW, one of the asteroids is a potato. Why? The animators/model creators, cinematographers wanted to put their own indelible stamp on a great scene that they were proud of. How many animators would say : I modeled this scene after the (insert scene name here) in (insert Episode I or II movie name here)? How many do you really remember? The watches put on orcs in ROTK are the result of a few mouse clicks.
Please go away and never return!
Absolutely. I think that everyone is seeing the distribution of free knowledge as beneficial to all mankind. Case in point: the decision lately of the New York Times to stop charging for access to their main news services and MITs recent course material offerings: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/30/173522 9&mode=thread&tid=146&tid=99. I just wish that our local paper would follow suit. (http://www.canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/loginprom pt?Category=TPNEWS16&AboType=SUBSCRIBE).
Only problem: It _is_ possible now for government agencies and others to monitor what you are researching and when, if we are on the internet. If one goes to the library and does research without checking out materials, we remain relatively anonymous. Not so with online searches.