Yes, in this case it does. Current business model: 1) WABC-TV creates content (or other producer licenses/sells content to them) 2) affiliate stations also air content (flagship and affiliate stations have a tradeoff because affiliates get good content, and flagship gets more eyeballs for their commercials, and affiliates may air some local commercials for revenue) 3) affiliate stations get max viewership since it's lame to be the guy at the watercooler the next day who didn't watch the show, and so does source station (WABC-TV in New York) 4) show goes on the internet for a little extra viewership (ie those who didn't see it on TV the night before, or who want to watch it again), and only the flagship gets a benefit here
Your proposed model: 1) create content 2) flagship airs content online, and anyone who wants to watch it can (note that affiliates get no benefit here) 3) affiliates air content, and fewer people watch (and thus have less incentive to be affiliates, and can't charge as much for local ads as well, thus losing revenue)
To sum up: proposed model: affiliates (your local stations) get less money, and thus perhaps cannot report the local news as well, nor produce local entertainment nor sponsor local NPOs, etc. current model: wholly different
I'm not trying to endorse one model over the other; I just want to demonstrate that they are, indeed, different business models. One harms the local stations.
I don't think it's a problem in the US. For example, my university (Univ. of Texas), runs an annual mathematics research project for undergrads. Each year there are different topics, and this year is a topic on using wavelets to model phenomena to deal with digital signal processing. If the university can just hand out these topics to undergrads with only a couple of years of training in mathematics, think what could be done for those with masters degrees. We just had our annual poster presentation session, and there were quite a few problems being worked on, such as one of my friends' research projects on using phylogenetic analysis through computer modeling to demonstrate the relationship between Linear A and Linear B (two ancient Mycenean -- sp? -- scripts). The research is there, at least at my university and city (Austin), which is admittedly very strong in computer science (IBM, HP, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and others have campuses here, and the CS department here is very strong) and as far as math goes, lower-dimensional topology. You really should check out Ph.D. programs in the US -- surely UT Austin cannot be the forefront of all research in the States; what about Carnegie Mellon and MIT for CS?
We're looking forward to a huge collapse [in human civilization]. [Pianka] hopes 90 percent of them will be exterminated by disease .
Professors of mine have said he's a great guy, but absolutely nuts. Pianka gave a speech to my honors program last summer, where he made a statement along the lines of
It's too bad AIDS doesn't kill people faster, and that the ebola virus isn't airborne
Of course, to believe this is his prerogative, and I don't express agreement or disagreement with his view here, but to express those views as proudly to that many people displays a profound lack of social skills.
Whatever, he's got tenure and a professor, so he has the right to do such research. It doesn't change the fact that he's bonkers.
It is interesting how patehtic the anti-MS whinign has gotten that an off handed humorous comment liek this is worth a/. story and so few peopel here even recognize the humor.
I hope the mass reaction to MSIE 7.0 is for major sites to either block the browser, or to use CSS which causes MSIE to totally break, and for those sites to recommend all browsers which are not MSIE as alternatives.
As a web developer, I'd love it if IE would support fully CSS, but as web developers, our loyalties are to the end user; writing code that will break on 30% of their browsers is a failure to perform our job adequately. That's like a doctor saying, you know, I'm just not going to help fat people with exercise because it's their fault for not eating healthily. Until they fix their nutrition, I will not help them with an exercise regimen. That's ridiculous, and as painful as it may be, it is our responsibility to enhance the end user experience, not exercise our compupolitical beliefs.
Hope my english is better than the Swedeish in the muppets show.
Don't listen to the parent. "Swede" is indeed the correct word to use to describe someone from Sweden. Aside from that, he did a nearly wonderful job of correcting spelling errors. I just can't believe that the parent attempted to "fix" the correct usage of "Swede" into a literally nonexistant word "Swedeish".
Who came a good 700 years after Jesus Christ who himself came from a fate even older. If you go back several thousand years the only bible fate around that is still around (as far as I know) are the Jews.
Wich means that most of the inventions claimed here are in fact not made by muslims but either by their predecessors (christians or jews) OR one of the many other fates that used to exist in the world.
Seriously, what the hell does "fate" mean? I've never heard of this usage, and neither has Google's "define:fate". Please enlighten me!
I never had to edit autoexec.bat nor config.sys for anything. In any case, those were used to load drivers which didn't automatically add themselves to config.sys, and autoexec.bat was almost unnecessary to edit (aside from making the last line in autoexec.bat, right after "win", say "defrag c: | Y" or something like that). The average user never had to touch this. Contrast this with xorg.conf, which I have had to manually edit when I installed Debian and Gentoo. I did not, however, have to edit it with Knoppix (installed to the HDD) nor with VectorLinux .
You have to have a bootloader for dual booting. Pick your poison, you don't have a choice in the matter. You could, of course, get rid of your other OS. Then you can bypass GRUB.
I wouldn't go that far. Considering only a PhD population, you have nearly guaranteed that everyone in the population is highly intelligent, and above average (ie >100). Then, by definition the IQ of an average person in Africa would be average (ie ==100).
However, I would say that you wouldn't find a difference between USian and African IQs, for example (each ==100 by definition).
Good grades aren't good enough, and young people end up wasting their teen years on stuff they hate, just so that they can get into university.
It'd be a problem if good grades were all you needed. I, for example, graduated valedictorian from a small-town high school in Texas with a very high GPA. However, my school might not be as rigorous as, say, Health Services High School in Houston. Thus, colleges might value a student with a high GPA from there over one from my high school. However, in my case, what if there is no way to actully get a higher GPA? Then you will be devalued just because you did not grow up in a metropolitan area.
Likewise with standardized tests: wealthy students can take prep courses to get good scores. How do you adjust for that? The SAT and ACT have two groups of people it measures: those who can afford preparatory classes, and those who cannot. However, college admissions committees do not know who is in which group. I'm currently facing this with law school admissions -- I scored in the 96th percentile on the LSAT, but would have scored higher if I had been able to afford the $1,000 or more prep courses the likes of Kaplan and TestMasters offer (I can barely afford college). These tests are prohobitively expensive.
We are left with the dilemma that there is no simple way to evaluate candidates for admission, so the system will be inherently unfair to some. It just sucks to be one of those people, so students who want an exceptional university education have to play the system as well as possible in the hopes that their efforts to game it are successful.
Furthermore, web site designers seem to have completely forgotten about dialup users -- Yahoo mail for example refocuses the cursor on the username login box AFTER it loads tons of stuff.
Well, do you really want to market your product to someone who won't even spend a few extra dollars a month to get broadband? And perhaps Yahoo doesn't care, because they offer broadband. I know in Japan, one of the leading broadband suppliers is Yahoo! BB.
Not only that, but there ought to be a requirement that if you get a copyright on something, it must be submitted in an unencumbered form to the Library of Congress for archival. If copying a public domain movie off of DVD for scholarly use involves violating the DMCA (which it does), there is something wrong, and there is in fact a perpetual and infinite partial copyright on that artistic work.
16 million iPod sales in 2005 alone. Nearly one billion songs purchased from iTMS. 90% and 70% market share respectively. Just thought I'd remind you that the market has spoken and you're old. In closing, screw you.
They make a larger profit through digital distribution, they lock you in to one format (meaning you'd have to buy two copies if you wanted to play one on your iPod and one on your XBox 360) which is also lossy and low-quality, forcing you to also buy the lossless version of the song. Let's see, they've made more money by selling you the same song twice. How are they getting screwed again?
If ripping a CD is illegal, then surely burning a CD and then ripping the music CD you just made would also not be protected under fair use, right? So you are locked into one format (two, if burning a CD is not illegal by the same logic). Plus, even if you burn, the quality is ridiculously poor compared to a CD. I have some 192KBps audio tracks ripped that sound horrid because the quality of the fuzz is not maintained.
does anyone really care about artist's notes and track listings I do. That's why I buy Japanese music and have a tendency to download US music instead -- the Japanese liner notes are far superior to anything American labels have to offer.
One thing I think I should point out about how spacetime doesn't fit the general model of a 4-space, and it's simple:
Object do not pop in and out of existence as time progresses.
Sure they do. You're just at the same time coordinate as all these objects, so they don't pop in and out of existence in your point of view. Read Flatland and rethink what you said before arguing further.
"Joke" foot on article: check. Sorry, there was no foot on any article I saw, as I was linked by Slashdot's RSS feed.
Comments taking the article 100% seriously: check. Any reason I shouldn't have thought Taco was off his rocker? I mean, if a foot icon on the main page is the only thing to let me know, and I came here from the RSS feed...
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Guys... it's just a freaking light gun game. Tell me it's not. This isn't a badass 'Halo killer.' It's next-gen Duck Hunt.
Heh. That sounds a whole lot like:
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Too bad Taco wasn't the editor for this article.
Yes, in this case it does. Current business model:
1) WABC-TV creates content (or other producer licenses/sells content to them)
2) affiliate stations also air content (flagship and affiliate stations have a tradeoff because affiliates get good content, and flagship gets more eyeballs for their commercials, and affiliates may air some local commercials for revenue)
3) affiliate stations get max viewership since it's lame to be the guy at the watercooler the next day who didn't watch the show, and so does source station (WABC-TV in New York)
4) show goes on the internet for a little extra viewership (ie those who didn't see it on TV the night before, or who want to watch it again), and only the flagship gets a benefit here
Your proposed model:
1) create content
2) flagship airs content online, and anyone who wants to watch it can (note that affiliates get no benefit here)
3) affiliates air content, and fewer people watch (and thus have less incentive to be affiliates, and can't charge as much for local ads as well, thus losing revenue)
To sum up:
proposed model: affiliates (your local stations) get less money, and thus perhaps cannot report the local news as well, nor produce local entertainment nor sponsor local NPOs, etc.
current model: wholly different
I'm not trying to endorse one model over the other; I just want to demonstrate that they are, indeed, different business models. One harms the local stations.
I don't think it's a problem in the US. For example, my university (Univ. of Texas), runs an annual mathematics research project for undergrads. Each year there are different topics, and this year is a topic on using wavelets to model phenomena to deal with digital signal processing. If the university can just hand out these topics to undergrads with only a couple of years of training in mathematics, think what could be done for those with masters degrees. We just had our annual poster presentation session, and there were quite a few problems being worked on, such as one of my friends' research projects on using phylogenetic analysis through computer modeling to demonstrate the relationship between Linear A and Linear B (two ancient Mycenean -- sp? -- scripts). The research is there, at least at my university and city (Austin), which is admittedly very strong in computer science (IBM, HP, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and others have campuses here, and the CS department here is very strong) and as far as math goes, lower-dimensional topology. You really should check out Ph.D. programs in the US -- surely UT Austin cannot be the forefront of all research in the States; what about Carnegie Mellon and MIT for CS?
http://www.sas.org/tcs/weeklyIssues_2006/2006-04-
http://story.seguingazette.com/drudge.html
We're looking forward to a huge collapse [in human civilization].
[Pianka] hopes 90 percent of them will be exterminated by disease .
Professors of mine have said he's a great guy, but absolutely nuts. Pianka gave a speech to my honors program last summer, where he made a statement along the lines of
Of course, to believe this is his prerogative, and I don't express agreement or disagreement with his view here, but to express those views as proudly to that many people displays a profound lack of social skills.
Whatever, he's got tenure and a professor, so he has the right to do such research. It doesn't change the fact that he's bonkers.
Jesus H. Christ, proofread your comments!
I could have sworn that at least Hotmail doesn't backup. At least, they did lose a customer's data.
Since you're using Gentoo, shouldn't that just be
emerge gnome
As a web developer, I'd love it if IE would support fully CSS, but as web developers, our loyalties are to the end user; writing code that will break on 30% of their browsers is a failure to perform our job adequately. That's like a doctor saying, you know, I'm just not going to help fat people with exercise because it's their fault for not eating healthily. Until they fix their nutrition, I will not help them with an exercise regimen. That's ridiculous, and as painful as it may be, it is our responsibility to enhance the end user experience, not exercise our compupolitical beliefs.
Hope my english is better than the Swedeish in the muppets show.
Don't listen to the parent. "Swede" is indeed the correct word to use to describe someone from Sweden. Aside from that, he did a nearly wonderful job of correcting spelling errors. I just can't believe that the parent attempted to "fix" the correct usage of "Swede" into a literally nonexistant word "Swedeish".
Seriously, what the hell does "fate" mean? I've never heard of this usage, and neither has Google's "define:fate". Please enlighten me!
I never had to edit autoexec.bat nor config.sys for anything. In any case, those were used to load drivers which didn't automatically add themselves to config.sys, and autoexec.bat was almost unnecessary to edit (aside from making the last line in autoexec.bat, right after "win", say "defrag c: | Y" or something like that). The average user never had to touch this. Contrast this with xorg.conf, which I have had to manually edit when I installed Debian and Gentoo. I did not, however, have to edit it with Knoppix (installed to the HDD) nor with VectorLinux .
how about making it so that you can bypass GRUB
You have to have a bootloader for dual booting. Pick your poison, you don't have a choice in the matter. You could, of course, get rid of your other OS. Then you can bypass GRUB.
I wouldn't go that far. Considering only a PhD population, you have nearly guaranteed that everyone in the population is highly intelligent, and above average (ie >100). Then, by definition the IQ of an average person in Africa would be average (ie ==100).
However, I would say that you wouldn't find a difference between USian and African IQs, for example (each ==100 by definition).
Heaven:
French Chefs
American Engineers
British Bobbies
What?
Good grades aren't good enough, and young people end up wasting their teen years on stuff they hate, just so that they can get into university.
It'd be a problem if good grades were all you needed. I, for example, graduated valedictorian from a small-town high school in Texas with a very high GPA. However, my school might not be as rigorous as, say, Health Services High School in Houston. Thus, colleges might value a student with a high GPA from there over one from my high school. However, in my case, what if there is no way to actully get a higher GPA? Then you will be devalued just because you did not grow up in a metropolitan area.
Likewise with standardized tests: wealthy students can take prep courses to get good scores. How do you adjust for that? The SAT and ACT have two groups of people it measures: those who can afford preparatory classes, and those who cannot. However, college admissions committees do not know who is in which group. I'm currently facing this with law school admissions -- I scored in the 96th percentile on the LSAT, but would have scored higher if I had been able to afford the $1,000 or more prep courses the likes of Kaplan and TestMasters offer (I can barely afford college). These tests are prohobitively expensive.
We are left with the dilemma that there is no simple way to evaluate candidates for admission, so the system will be inherently unfair to some. It just sucks to be one of those people, so students who want an exceptional university education have to play the system as well as possible in the hopes that their efforts to game it are successful.
Sure it is. And is sure beats "politicalize", which would be "to make political."
>> And geeks shouldn't have to know how to do anything but the Vulcan neck pinch.
Fixed.
Furthermore, web site designers seem to have completely forgotten about dialup users -- Yahoo mail for example refocuses the cursor on the username login box AFTER it loads tons of stuff.
Well, do you really want to market your product to someone who won't even spend a few extra dollars a month to get broadband? And perhaps Yahoo doesn't care, because they offer broadband. I know in Japan, one of the leading broadband suppliers is Yahoo! BB.
Not only that, but there ought to be a requirement that if you get a copyright on something, it must be submitted in an unencumbered form to the Library of Congress for archival. If copying a public domain movie off of DVD for scholarly use involves violating the DMCA (which it does), there is something wrong, and there is in fact a perpetual and infinite partial copyright on that artistic work.
16 million iPod sales in 2005 alone. Nearly one billion songs purchased from iTMS. 90% and 70% market share respectively. Just thought I'd remind you that the market has spoken and you're old. In closing, screw you.
They make a larger profit through digital distribution, they lock you in to one format (meaning you'd have to buy two copies if you wanted to play one on your iPod and one on your XBox 360) which is also lossy and low-quality, forcing you to also buy the lossless version of the song. Let's see, they've made more money by selling you the same song twice. How are they getting screwed again?
If ripping a CD is illegal, then surely burning a CD and then ripping the music CD you just made would also not be protected under fair use, right? So you are locked into one format (two, if burning a CD is not illegal by the same logic). Plus, even if you burn, the quality is ridiculously poor compared to a CD. I have some 192KBps audio tracks ripped that sound horrid because the quality of the fuzz is not maintained.
Don't the RIAA get a cut from the music variety of CD-Rs
Yes, surprisingly enough, Americans do pay that.
You forgot
3. To drink the Kool-Aid.
does anyone really care about artist's notes and track listings
I do. That's why I buy Japanese music and have a tendency to download US music instead -- the Japanese liner notes are far superior to anything American labels have to offer.
One thing I think I should point out about how spacetime doesn't fit the general model of a 4-space, and it's simple:
Object do not pop in and out of existence as time progresses.
Sure they do. You're just at the same time coordinate as all these objects, so they don't pop in and out of existence in your point of view. Read Flatland and rethink what you said before arguing further.
"Joke" foot on article: check.
Sorry, there was no foot on any article I saw, as I was linked by Slashdot's RSS feed.
Comments taking the article 100% seriously: check.
Any reason I shouldn't have thought Taco was off his rocker? I mean, if a foot icon on the main page is the only thing to let me know, and I came here from the RSS feed...