Please forgive my ignorance but if you've gone to the effort to load your creation to Amazon why can you not do this for B&N and also for iBooks? I'm not seeing your point with distribution. How is this a valuable service that only a publisher can provide?
Editing is an issue that the publishers are ignoring. It's laughable to use it as an example of of the value a publisher provides an author.
B&M is dying and your example of B&N proves it! Why would an author want to pay a publisher a premium to put a dead tree copy of their work into a B&N where people are purchasing e-books?! You may as well self publish your e-book to the B&N store and cut out the middleman!
Most of the value of a traditional publisher, with the exception of promotion and perhaps editing, is all tied to dead tree distribution.
If was I was in the dead tree publishing business I'd be very nervous and I'd be putting a a lot of work into getting my e-strategy sorted out.
Your condescending attitude is really grating, you should drop it.
Please tell me, how does your "PC Agnostic" installation disk handle the driver problem?
Once you're over that hurdle how do you handle installing all the line of business applications and their updates?
Everyone is up to speed on WSUS offline, we have it, we use it. It's the other stuff that takes the time. The stuff that ISN'T handled by WSUS Offline and pre-patched windows installation disks.
I would hope that most denizens of/. are aware of the specific imaging technologies and techniques that your mentioned.
The reason many MSPs are not using them is because of the cost of setup. It's easy to do a setup like that when the clients has 200 machines and they're all the same model. It's a bit tougher when the client has 15 machines and they all different makes and models.
Now distribute that problem across 30 clients and suddenly the automata becomes much more difficult to maintain.
Couple that with the fact that you have to get the client to PAY for doing the setup, which may never be used, and suddenly the automata becomes far less attractive.
So yes, 3 hours for a wipe and re-install is fairly normal for shops who are working primarily in the SMB space.
If you meant "running like mad" I'd have to ask why?
This is a solved problem. Google hdmi to rca.
Also, instead of spending $12,000 on replacing everything, or $700 on a downscaling unit, why not spend $500 or less and build a media pc with RCA / Svido out built onto the video card?
Either there is some issue you're not telling us about or you're making this way harder than it has to be.
I'm not going to apologize because you don't know what you're doing and now your feelings are hurt.
Let me break it down for you.
"I've noticed anecdotally that many doctors have Macs, perhaps 34% have Apple computers and don't need antivirus?"
Just because someone has a Mac doesn't mean they don't need A/V. Quite honestly most medical applications are written for Windows so if they are being run a Mac that mans you're either running Parallels or Bootcamp. That means your Mac is in a Windows environment and requires A/V.
"Also for firewall do they mean a separate dodgy product and are they ignoring the quite reasonable Ms Windows and Apple firewalls? "
The Windows and Apple firewalls may be sufficient for basic machine protection but you cannot rely on them to protect a network from the Internet.
"How about the situation where just about every modem or router made after about 2005 has half decent firewall rules as a default?"
Half-decent firewalls are just that. Half decent. When running an EHR and piling up patient information it's nowhere NEAR enough.
Anyone with smarts is running a firewall with REAL rules that can, and will, do SPI on outbound and as well as inbound traffic. You WILL be running IPS / IDS and gateway antivirus and antispyware. You will NOT trust your outbound traffic.
The crappy firewall in a DSL modem is nowhere near capable of handling all of this and frankly if you're not doing this then you're not doing your JOB.
So yeah, you're part of the problem. You're sloppy, ignorant of security threats, and lazy.
"hell last.fm or pandora or amazon they could have the same item for 30% more on the apple side and still have it as they do now on their side."
My understanding is that this is specifically NOT allowed. Prices in the Apple store must be the same or LESS than what's available on a producers website.
I would guess that you're likely correct. HOWEVER if this is the amount of work being put into an e-book how can anyone claim that it's expensive to do?
Frankly I could hire someone from a temp agency for $12 an hour to OCR and proof and probably get several books done per day.
Actually the more I search around the more I can't find a trace of an AT&T plan like what you're talking about.
Of course I can't get onto the AT&T site to look because they don't service my area yet but as I go through various forums all I see is shared data plans involving dumb phones.
Can you provide you a link to your shared data plan for $30 per month that will work with smartphones?
My boy is eligible for a phone upgrade and we're arguing back and forth over what he is going to get.
He wants a 'cool' phone, and I don't blame him, but there aren't these don't exist any more outside of the smartphone segment!
What he really wants is a "feature phone" but there's just so damn few of them that are worth anything. The handset manufacturers have abandoned this market!
It's not the $20 up front that is "too expensive" it's the monthly reoccurring $20 (minimum!) that is ridiculous!
With Verizon and a new Smartphone under contract that number actually balloons to something like $40 PER MONTH PER LINE for JUST the data service!
So with four lines I'd have $160 for data, $80 for voice, and $20 for texting. Why, exactly, does my cell phone bill need to be $260 per month? Answer: It doesn't!
Oh, and without the data plan a smartphone is really no better than a dumb one. Maybe some better games and some additional PDA functionality but that's about it.
The simple truth is that until data prices come down smartphones are too expensive for many people to justify no matter how much they want them.
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Please forgive my ignorance but if you've gone to the effort to load your creation to Amazon why can you not do this for B&N and also for iBooks? I'm not seeing your point with distribution. How is this a valuable service that only a publisher can provide?
Editing is an issue that the publishers are ignoring. It's laughable to use it as an example of of the value a publisher provides an author.
B&M is dying and your example of B&N proves it! Why would an author want to pay a publisher a premium to put a dead tree copy of their work into a B&N where people are purchasing e-books?! You may as well self publish your e-book to the B&N store and cut out the middleman!
Most of the value of a traditional publisher, with the exception of promotion and perhaps editing, is all tied to dead tree distribution.
If was I was in the dead tree publishing business I'd be very nervous and I'd be putting a a lot of work into getting my e-strategy sorted out.
No, the superior authors will be able to charge 5.99 and even in a .99 world they'll get it.
Printing and distribution? Don't need it for e-books.
Editing? Have you SEEN the shit quality of editing in e-books? Some of it is so bad it is surely being done on purpose.
Publicity? This one I'll give you.
Route into brick and mortar? B&M bookstores are dying. Why pay a premium to get into a dying business model.
Money to live on? Well if it didn't take 2+ years to go from concept to market perhaps it wouldn't be such a big deal.
I'm still failing to see what the big deal is about publishers.
"A single idiot with an AK-47 is unlikely to be jamming GPS."
Why would you say this? A single idiot truck driver was shutting down ATC for an International Airport!
The devices are $30 on Ebay, I just checked, and are no more complicated than plugging nto a 12v source.
So a single idiot with an AK-47 on his back and 8 AA batteries in his pocket could walk around with one of these on all day.
It most certainly is NOT a Republican / Democrat position. If it were it would not occur outside of the United States...and yet it does.
Your condescending attitude is really grating, you should drop it.
Please tell me, how does your "PC Agnostic" installation disk handle the driver problem?
Once you're over that hurdle how do you handle installing all the line of business applications and their updates?
Everyone is up to speed on WSUS offline, we have it, we use it. It's the other stuff that takes the time. The stuff that ISN'T handled by WSUS Offline and pre-patched windows installation disks.
I would hope that most denizens of /. are aware of the specific imaging technologies and techniques that your mentioned.
The reason many MSPs are not using them is because of the cost of setup. It's easy to do a setup like that when the clients has 200 machines and they're all the same model. It's a bit tougher when the client has 15 machines and they all different makes and models.
Now distribute that problem across 30 clients and suddenly the automata becomes much more difficult to maintain.
Couple that with the fact that you have to get the client to PAY for doing the setup, which may never be used, and suddenly the automata becomes far less attractive.
So yes, 3 hours for a wipe and re-install is fairly normal for shops who are working primarily in the SMB space.
Wasn't that long ago and and the same thing was said about Harley Davidson motorcycles too.
"running mad"?
If you meant "running like mad" I'd have to ask why?
This is a solved problem. Google hdmi to rca.
Also, instead of spending $12,000 on replacing everything, or $700 on a downscaling unit, why not spend $500 or less and build a media pc with RCA / Svido out built onto the video card?
Either there is some issue you're not telling us about or you're making this way harder than it has to be.
I'm not going to apologize because you don't know what you're doing and now your feelings are hurt.
Let me break it down for you.
"I've noticed anecdotally that many doctors have Macs, perhaps 34% have Apple computers and don't need antivirus?"
Just because someone has a Mac doesn't mean they don't need A/V. Quite honestly most medical applications are written for Windows so if they are being run a Mac that mans you're either running Parallels or Bootcamp. That means your Mac is in a Windows environment and requires A/V.
"Also for firewall do they mean a separate dodgy product and are they ignoring the quite reasonable Ms Windows and Apple firewalls? "
The Windows and Apple firewalls may be sufficient for basic machine protection but you cannot rely on them to protect a network from the Internet.
"How about the situation where just about every modem or router made after about 2005 has half decent firewall rules as a default?"
Half-decent firewalls are just that. Half decent. When running an EHR and piling up patient information it's nowhere NEAR enough.
Anyone with smarts is running a firewall with REAL rules that can, and will, do SPI on outbound and as well as inbound traffic. You WILL be running IPS / IDS and gateway antivirus and antispyware. You will NOT trust your outbound traffic.
The crappy firewall in a DSL modem is nowhere near capable of handling all of this and frankly if you're not doing this then you're not doing your JOB.
So yeah, you're part of the problem. You're sloppy, ignorant of security threats, and lazy.
"hell last.fm or pandora or amazon they could have the same item for 30% more on the apple side and still have it as they do now on their side."
My understanding is that this is specifically NOT allowed. Prices in the Apple store must be the same or LESS than what's available on a producers website.
BD is a "con"? Got anything else that makes an action movie look good on a 55" television?
No? I didn't think so.
I hope you don't manage the infrastructure at a medical practice. Based on your comments you'd be part of the problem.
Was this your attitude when Rush Limbaugh's medical record was splashed all over CNN?
Wow, so very offensive to the Doctors and your I.T. brethren in the MidWest.
Not only is your assumption false, making you both wrong and ignorant, but you're a JERK to boot.
How does that grab ya'?
I would guess that you're likely correct. HOWEVER if this is the amount of work being put into an e-book how can anyone claim that it's expensive to do?
Frankly I could hire someone from a temp agency for $12 an hour to OCR and proof and probably get several books done per day.
Judging by the Editorial "work", and I use that term loosely, that I see in many e-books most editorial staffs are drastically overpaid.
Actually the more I search around the more I can't find a trace of an AT&T plan like what you're talking about.
Of course I can't get onto the AT&T site to look because they don't service my area yet but as I go through various forums all I see is shared data plans involving dumb phones.
Can you provide you a link to your shared data plan for $30 per month that will work with smartphones?
From Verizon's official forum: http://community.vzw.com/t5/PDA-Smartphone-Devices/UNLIMITED-DATA-PLAN/ta-p/346642
Question:
I have the unlimited data plan. Can someone on my family plan use this on their phone?
Answer:
Unfortunately, you need to purchase separate data plans for each phone. The plan costs $29.99.
It would appear that AT&T has a data option that Verizon does not.
Hmmmm, it's possible that I'm misunderstanding Verizon's offering. I will contact them and find out.
Bingo! Also, VERY FRUSTRATING!
My boy is eligible for a phone upgrade and we're arguing back and forth over what he is going to get.
He wants a 'cool' phone, and I don't blame him, but there aren't these don't exist any more outside of the smartphone segment!
What he really wants is a "feature phone" but there's just so damn few of them that are worth anything. The handset manufacturers have abandoned this market!
Sure but you are one out of a family of how many?
How much would it cost, per month, if everyone *else* in your family was carrying one of these?
As a family guy this is my problem with them. Yes I can afford to have one of them, but I certainly will not pay for data plan times FOUR.
It's not the $20 up front that is "too expensive" it's the monthly reoccurring $20 (minimum!) that is ridiculous!
With Verizon and a new Smartphone under contract that number actually balloons to something like $40 PER MONTH PER LINE for JUST the data service!
So with four lines I'd have $160 for data, $80 for voice, and $20 for texting. Why, exactly, does my cell phone bill need to be $260 per month? Answer: It doesn't!
Oh, and without the data plan a smartphone is really no better than a dumb one. Maybe some better games and some additional PDA functionality but that's about it.
The simple truth is that until data prices come down smartphones are too expensive for many people to justify no matter how much they want them.
Saudia is #3 but it's a far smaller supplier than #1 Canada.
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/100726/top-7-us-oil-importers
Hey, can you grab a quick quote from that article where Biden calls Assange a terrorist?
Thanks!