Because people are previewing his music, and not buying it. He just wants to get paid for the preview. The logical fallacy is that anyone would pay for the preview.
Mostly, he wants iTunes to continue to offer previews, but for them to be paid from Apple's "Profits", so that the customer doesn't see the charge. He want's Apple to have a smaller slice of the pie, and ASCAP to get a larger slice. He's not worried about killing the golden goose, because, hey, it's someone else's goose.
The first RV stops at the edge of 3G connectivity. The 2nd goes on into the bush and uses WiFi and cantennas on masts to achieve connectivity to the 1st RV and thus the 3G network.
Please explain this to the non-brits reading slashdot. How exactly does the BBC collect money without resorting to "men with guns"? (i.e. similar to mafia protection money)
The way I understood it, there were government trucks that would sniff the airwaves looking for the local oscillator of unlicensed TVs. If they found you, you'd get a fine. If you didn't pay the fine, you'd get locked up.
That happened on "Antiques Roadshow" as well. A woman brought an old violin to the appraiser who told her that the violin was worthless, but the bow was worth thousands.
I had a wine tasting instructor that claimed that any bottle of wine over $25 was $25 worth of wine and $N - $25 worth of "rare". Sound and wine, it's easy to spot the crap, but the difference between a great violin and a priceless violin is less than the difference in your ears on a cold dry day, vs. your ears on a hot humid day. (b.t.w. I'm done some programming for an audiologist, so I've seen just how variable human hearing can be.)
A listener might attribute "better" sound to a more expensive violin, *and* the player might play the more expensive violin with more care, resulting in a "better" sound.
A real double blind test would require a robot player that played each instrument exactly the same.
Is that true? Do they really drink imported American beer in the UK? I would think they drink something that is brewed there and *called* Budweiser. (Most Kirin beer in the US is actually brewed in Canada, you have to hunt for the Japanese stuff.)
Sounds good but on the other hand living in a world where our deepest-held moral convictions are set aside for technological progress sounds like a nightmare scenario.
Welcome the the real world then. Wernher von Braun and his crew had their crimes overlooked so that we could win the space race vs. the Soviets. After 9/11, Dick Cheney said in an interview that we would have to make deals with some very bad people to stop the terrorists. In the real world, countries often overlook their morality to get ahead.
'It's shocking how little value criminals place on your credit card,' she said."
No, if it were worth more, there'd be more value in stealing it. You want its value to a criminal to be zero, the chance of being caught to be infinite, or both.
Maybe it's time to make the state pay for your defense when you're aquitted?
Great idea, one that I'd like to see, but the law of unintended consequences will rear it's ugly head. If the state, i.e. taxpayers, have to pay for state mistakes, Judges and Juries will be even less likely to acquit. Would you rather have a few more innocent people go to jail, so that some people will be compensated for being wrongly accused?
Didn't get enough interaction with peers? I'm sure you could hire someone to regularly hit you or give you wedgies. Perhaps a swirlly would teach you a thing or two about social interaction.
Do you have children? I assure you that if my daughters were homeschooled or home-unschooled, they would hear the word "no" enough times to understand it's meaning.
he stared blankly up at the cafeteria menu, frozen in indecision at his 5 choices for lunch.
I knew a guy like this, after a bicycle accident. (Brain damage)
Is there any evidence that this kid could have made it by himself if he was not homeschooled? Remember, correlation does not equal causation. It could be that more special needs children are home schooled because the system can't.
Just because something exists at the microscopic level, doesn't mean it's useful at the macroscopic level. Example: Matter/Energy does just jump into existence in a vacuum. But as long as the particle and virtual particle don't live longer than Plank's constant/ their mass, conservation is preserved. Now, if you have a handy black hole, you could make a perpetual motion machine. (For sufficiently short definitions of perpetual)
You jest, but when the **AA starts to encode content specifically to each user, they'll stop copyright infringement. They'll encode so that only you can decode, and if you give the content to someone else they'll be able to use their master key to track it back to you and you'll be banned from watching movies for life. (or bankrupted by the lawsuit)
Kudos to Jobs and his crew, but if your real customer is Dell and the *IAA, then you have a better hand. You can eventually cut the price of your product to zero, or lower, and still make money.
Apple has an uphill battle, but it is winnable. Just look at the bottled water industry to find out how to sell a product that most people can get free or nearly free.
If mutations were rare, some people would be "pure" descendants of mutations. Since they are not rare, most people will be mutants of their parents. It's not just their genes mixed, it's their genes plus mutations. Thus, everyone really *is* unique...
Given what we know about biology, every living thing, including viruses, are mutants (or at least descendants of mutants)>/b>
I think that was the point. If mutations were rare, some people would be "pure" descendants of mutations. Since they are not rare, most people will be mutants of their parents. It's not just their genes mixed, it's their genes plus mutations.
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Because people are previewing his music, and not buying it. He just wants to get paid for the preview. The logical fallacy is that anyone would pay for the preview.
Mostly, he wants iTunes to continue to offer previews, but for them to be paid from Apple's "Profits", so that the customer doesn't see the charge. He want's Apple to have a smaller slice of the pie, and ASCAP to get a larger slice. He's not worried about killing the golden goose, because, hey, it's someone else's goose.
That's why ASCAP wants a law. One that says "Everyone pays for any clip". That way independents won't be able to make side deals.
Loft your 3G bridge with a tethered balloon or kite.
The first RV stops at the edge of 3G connectivity. The 2nd goes on into the bush and uses WiFi and cantennas on masts to achieve connectivity to the 1st RV and thus the 3G network.
Nor is it government run, or funded; the tax is collected by a separate body, and given direct to the BBC,
How is that separate body not a (sub) government all it's own? Are they elected? Appointed? Who do they answer to?
Please explain this to the non-brits reading slashdot. How exactly does the BBC collect money without resorting to "men with guns"? (i.e. similar to mafia protection money)
The way I understood it, there were government trucks that would sniff the airwaves looking for the local oscillator of unlicensed TVs. If they found you, you'd get a fine. If you didn't pay the fine, you'd get locked up.
Authentic Picasso's keep going up in value, but I doubt anyone really believes they look better than a great reproduction.
A guitar used and signed by Pete Townsend would be more valuable than the same type unsigned and unused.
There's really nothing about a Stradivarius that you can't get by spending $25000 or so. Except the provenance and prestige.
Yep. An authentic Picasso is worth millions, but an exact reproduction might be too ugly to put in your living room.
That happened on "Antiques Roadshow" as well. A woman brought an old violin to the appraiser who told her that the violin was worthless, but the bow was worth thousands.
I had a wine tasting instructor that claimed that any bottle of wine over $25 was $25 worth of wine and $N - $25 worth of "rare". Sound and wine, it's easy to spot the crap, but the difference between a great violin and a priceless violin is less than the difference in your ears on a cold dry day, vs. your ears on a hot humid day. (b.t.w. I'm done some programming for an audiologist, so I've seen just how variable human hearing can be.)
A listener might attribute "better" sound to a more expensive violin, *and* the player might play the more expensive violin with more care, resulting in a "better" sound.
A real double blind test would require a robot player that played each instrument exactly the same.
Is that true? Do they really drink imported American beer in the UK? I would think they drink something that is brewed there and *called* Budweiser. (Most Kirin beer in the US is actually brewed in Canada, you have to hunt for the Japanese stuff.)
Sounds good but on the other hand living in a world where our deepest-held moral convictions are set aside for technological progress sounds like a nightmare scenario.
Welcome the the real world then. Wernher von Braun and his crew had their crimes overlooked so that we could win the space race vs. the Soviets. After 9/11, Dick Cheney said in an interview that we would have to make deals with some very bad people to stop the terrorists. In the real world, countries often overlook their morality to get ahead.
'It's shocking how little value criminals place on your credit card,' she said."
No, if it were worth more, there'd be more value in stealing it. You want its value to a criminal to be zero, the chance of being caught to be infinite, or both.
Maybe it's time to make the state pay for your defense when you're aquitted?
Great idea, one that I'd like to see, but the law of unintended consequences will rear it's ugly head. If the state, i.e. taxpayers, have to pay for state mistakes, Judges and Juries will be even less likely to acquit. Would you rather have a few more innocent people go to jail, so that some people will be compensated for being wrongly accused?
Didn't get enough interaction with peers? I'm sure you could hire someone to regularly hit you or give you wedgies. Perhaps a swirlly would teach you a thing or two about social interaction.
Do you have children? I assure you that if my daughters were homeschooled or home-unschooled, they would hear the word "no" enough times to understand it's meaning.
he stared blankly up at the cafeteria menu, frozen in indecision at his 5 choices for lunch.
I knew a guy like this, after a bicycle accident. (Brain damage)
Is there any evidence that this kid could have made it by himself if he was not homeschooled? Remember, correlation does not equal causation. It could be that more special needs children are home schooled because the system can't.
"Hi, I'm Alex Karp," Mr. Karp said, offering his hand. No response. "I didn't know you really don't ask their names," he says now.
Real spies have fake names and ids. There's no reason not to give the guy a name, as long as everyone in the room isn't named "Bob".
Just because something exists at the microscopic level, doesn't mean it's useful at the macroscopic level. Example: Matter/Energy does just jump into existence in a vacuum. But as long as the particle and virtual particle don't live longer than Plank's constant/ their mass, conservation is preserved. Now, if you have a handy black hole, you could make a perpetual motion machine. (For sufficiently short definitions of perpetual)
You jest, but when the **AA starts to encode content specifically to each user, they'll stop copyright infringement. They'll encode so that only you can decode, and if you give the content to someone else they'll be able to use their master key to track it back to you and you'll be banned from watching movies for life. (or bankrupted by the lawsuit)
Kudos to Jobs and his crew, but if your real customer is Dell and the *IAA, then you have a better hand. You can eventually cut the price of your product to zero, or lower, and still make money.
Apple has an uphill battle, but it is winnable. Just look at the bottled water industry to find out how to sell a product that most people can get free or nearly free.
do any dudes believe it?
I imagine the dudes that wrote it aren't getting much. I'm just sayin'...
If mutations were rare, some people would be "pure" descendants of mutations. Since they are not rare, most people will be mutants of their parents. It's not just their genes mixed, it's their genes plus mutations. Thus, everyone really *is* unique...
Given what we know about biology, every living thing, including viruses, are mutants (or at least descendants of mutants)>/b>
I think that was the point. If mutations were rare, some people would be "pure" descendants of mutations. Since they are not rare, most people will be mutants of their parents. It's not just their genes mixed, it's their genes plus mutations.