You make a valid point though I think that if the ability to download movies drives the sales of more expensive Tivo units for new subscribers and perhaps some sort of profitable storage upgrade for existing customers Tivo won't be unhappy.
The companies are planning to work together on technology that will secure this content, she said.
This is no small undertaking. I've gotta believe the MPAA and other interested bodies will be up Tivo/Netflix collective arses about piracy. It will be very interesting to see how long it takes to make the MPAA & company feel safe....
You are allowed 500MB attachments so I assume you could upload 200 or so of them sequentially until you have filled up 100GB and then you win the 1TB mailbox. And then.... Profit?
Certain statements in this release, other than statements of historical fact, may include forward-looking information that involves various risks and uncertainties. These may include, without limitation, statements based on current expectations involving a number of risks and uncertainties related to all aspects of the wireless communications industry.
. . . you can be pretty confident that you are reading a press release. This was written by the company that owns the equipment used in the test. This is essentially an advertisement.
CERN birthday gifts should be money
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Happy 50th Cern!
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This article in Physics Today discusses the huge budget that CERN operates within as well as some rather large cost overages. So, put some cash in that birthday card!
I don't know that you have to please the die hard Star War fans. I mean, you're right, you probably can't please them. However, if you can please the folks who watch tv at night to the extent that ratings are good, then it will fly. It may even be the case that the obsessed fans of Star Wars don't like the series at all. It's probably too small a group to make a difference. I am not a die hard fan - I only saw the original movie and I saw that once. I liked the movie. I think there are a lot more people like me than there are die hard fans. Just a thought.
I suppose if they treat each part of Google as having it's own P&L responsibility then the News could be seen as not making money. However, I believe that there is a lot of "synergy" among the various Google components and one area attracts users to another area. From that point of view, News contributes to the profitability of the other sections. On the other hand, they may have some metrics in place that demonstrate that the News has had no effect on the other areas. That would be difficult to believe. This would make a good paper for someone in college working in an economics class or a business/marketing class.
I see it differently and, at the same time, I can see your point of view. I do not think, however, that this is a good time to take away the tools that the FBI and other agencies need to protect us from people that rabidly hate us and are willing to die to pull off acts of terrorism. I think the ruling will either be overturned on appeal, or, a legislative remedy that helps both sides feel better about this will be enacted.
Dear Windows, I suspect we are in a co-dependent relationship. I feel obliged to continue. I have enabled M$ with my money and Windows has me addicted to the lazy way of computing. So, I am Jonesing on XP. It's not so bad - as long as I use a clean syringe for each reboot.
Unlike the more specialized architecture of the Japanese supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L uses a derivative of commercially available off-the-shelf processors. It also uses an unusually large number of them.
The resulting computer is smaller and cooler than other supercomputers, reducing its running costs, said Hirschfeld. He did not have a dollar figure for how much lower Blue Gene's costs will be than other supercomputers.
This is the most interesting part of the article to me. Makers of supercomputers are going to go back and forth for the speed record. However, holding the speed record with off the shelf components seems like a separate achievement in and of itself. The article did mention, however, that the IBM system is not as capable as other supercomputers.
criticized religious fundamentalism and pseudoscience,
That doesn't sound political to me, as those mindsets are the antithesis of pure science
No, they are not. There are incredibly good scientists that are Roman Catholic priests. I am a Roman Catholic and I believe in creationism and the Big Bang Theory as well as selective adaptation. I don't know how to reconcile them but I believe in them both. Believing in God does not prevent me from appreciating archeology, for example. I had a minor in that subject as part of my B.A. You should not be so quick to wipe away an entire segment of the population as antithetical to science because they believe in God. That demonstrates a level of ingnorance as great as that you purport yourself.
It's a good article but, yes, it is rather long. The author makes good points. After reading the article I am not sure how to comment on it without regurgitating what the author has already said. However, I do think that there were valuable lessons to be learned from the whole "bubble" phenomena and we did not necessarily learn those lessons.
Before telling other folks to "look it up," you might want to clean up your own grammar as well as word usage. For example, "..is a 2 grade level.." should read "..is a 2nd grade level.." Also, if you follow the rules for using commas, your last sentence simplifies to, "Bush has made me to be embarrassed for being American." In addition, that should also be "an American." I could go on but there are too many other errors. You are welcome to correct mine, of course.
I don't think I would expect any more from Kerry. The debates are tightly choreographed and neither candidate's "handlers" are going to allow them stray far from a safe script. So, the debates end up being more about style than substance. Which candidate looks more "presidential," more like a "leader," and makes people feel good about them. Style over substance has been the rule for these debates for a long time.
New users can't access via Outlook. Exisiting users will be migrated to a fee-based service or out of Outlook access over a period of months. This is in the article.
My first consideration is always going to be price. The cost of manufacturing a song is down to almost zero. There are infrastructure costs of less than ten cents. Now, consider that the.99 iTunes and others charge represent a doubling in the royalties that the R.IA.A. wants and you can see that it is very possible to sell music for around fifty-cents per song and still be profitable. They would have to accept lower royalties than do do now. However, I think the increase in revenue would more than make up for the per-song reduction in absolute royalties. More info here: Neowin.net
I would like to be able to sample a song for at least a minute though being able to stream the whole song would be nice. Thirty seconds is not long enough, a minute would do.
ALLOFMP3
occasionally tosses out an oldie album for free. That is a nice marketing touch. This wouldn't be necessary but I would probably check back more often to see what promotions were ongoing.
I like my downloads to be unencumbered mp3. No DRM. If I am only paying fifty-cents per song I don't have a lot of incentive to cheat. It sounds like a lot to ask by DRM is a scourge.
An ideal music source would also have all of the major labels and quite a bit of the balance.
Not asking for much, am I?
Given the costs and future revenue associated with the technology that is being licensed, I am surprised that the licensing deal is only worth appx. $21M:
The licensing deal with M.A.V. could be worth up to £14 million ($21.5 million) over the next fifteen years depending on the number of spaceships built by Virgin.
The development alone of the technology is predictably high:
It is expected that around £60 million ($100 million) will be invested in developing the new generation of spaceships and ground infrastructure required to operate a sub orbital space tourism experience.
The revenue for flights seems about what one would expect:
Over five years Virgin expects to create around 3000 astronauts and the price per seat on each flight, which will include at least three days of pre-flight training, are expected to start at around £115,000 ($190,000).
So, given all of these numbers, doesn't $21M for a license seem low?
Fortunately we have meta-moderating to fix this problem. I meta-moderate as often as three times a day and I do try to find where content was not a problem but a strong opinion one way or the other had to have led to being modded down. People who get "overturned," so to speak, don't end up getting mod points again. -erick
Imagine having to keep a vat of liquid nitrogen at your desk in order to use your computer! Notice the Fluke thermometer showing -105C (-157F). Now that is damned cold....
I don't think everyone understand's that when he says still up "...on the same fucking page..." he means that it is on the Slashdo homepage and it is right around 30 hours old at the most.
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You make a valid point though I think that if the ability to download movies drives the sales of more expensive Tivo units for new subscribers and perhaps some sort of profitable storage upgrade for existing customers Tivo won't be unhappy.
This is no small undertaking. I've gotta believe the MPAA and other interested bodies will be up Tivo/Netflix collective arses about piracy. It will be very interesting to see how long it takes to make the MPAA & company feel safe....
In this article Sony says that they are working hard to bring MP3 devices to market but they have nothing to announce at this time.
Only in the sense that the sun not exploding on any given day is news. People have speeches written for them. That is the norm.
You are allowed 500MB attachments so I assume you could upload 200 or so of them sequentially until you have filled up 100GB and then you win the 1TB mailbox. And then.... Profit?
Certain statements in this release, other than statements of historical fact, may include forward-looking information that involves various risks and uncertainties. These may include, without limitation, statements based on current expectations involving a number of risks and uncertainties related to all aspects of the wireless communications industry.
. . . you can be pretty confident that you are reading a press release. This was written by the company that owns the equipment used in the test. This is essentially an advertisement.
This article in Physics Today discusses the huge budget that CERN operates within as well as some rather large cost overages. So, put some cash in that birthday card!
I don't know that you have to please the die hard Star War fans. I mean, you're right, you probably can't please them. However, if you can please the folks who watch tv at night to the extent that ratings are good, then it will fly. It may even be the case that the obsessed fans of Star Wars don't like the series at all. It's probably too small a group to make a difference. I am not a die hard fan - I only saw the original movie and I saw that once. I liked the movie. I think there are a lot more people like me than there are die hard fans. Just a thought.
I suppose if they treat each part of Google as having it's own P&L responsibility then the News could be seen as not making money. However, I believe that there is a lot of "synergy" among the various Google components and one area attracts users to another area. From that point of view, News contributes to the profitability of the other sections. On the other hand, they may have some metrics in place that demonstrate that the News has had no effect on the other areas. That would be difficult to believe. This would make a good paper for someone in college working in an economics class or a business/marketing class.
I see it differently and, at the same time, I can see your point of view. I do not think, however, that this is a good time to take away the tools that the FBI and other agencies need to protect us from people that rabidly hate us and are willing to die to pull off acts of terrorism. I think the ruling will either be overturned on appeal, or, a legislative remedy that helps both sides feel better about this will be enacted.
Dear Windows, I suspect we are in a co-dependent relationship. I feel obliged to continue. I have enabled M$ with my money and Windows has me addicted to the lazy way of computing. So, I am Jonesing on XP. It's not so bad - as long as I use a clean syringe for each reboot.
For a great deal of detail about this system surf over to this pdf
Unlike the more specialized architecture of the Japanese supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L uses a derivative of commercially available off-the-shelf processors. It also uses an unusually large number of them. The resulting computer is smaller and cooler than other supercomputers, reducing its running costs, said Hirschfeld. He did not have a dollar figure for how much lower Blue Gene's costs will be than other supercomputers.
This is the most interesting part of the article to me. Makers of supercomputers are going to go back and forth for the speed record. However, holding the speed record with off the shelf components seems like a separate achievement in and of itself. The article did mention, however, that the IBM system is not as capable as other supercomputers.
That doesn't sound political to me, as those mindsets are the antithesis of pure science
No, they are not. There are incredibly good scientists that are Roman Catholic priests. I am a Roman Catholic and I believe in creationism and the Big Bang Theory as well as selective adaptation. I don't know how to reconcile them but I believe in them both. Believing in God does not prevent me from appreciating archeology, for example. I had a minor in that subject as part of my B.A. You should not be so quick to wipe away an entire segment of the population as antithetical to science because they believe in God. That demonstrates a level of ingnorance as great as that you purport yourself.
It's a good article but, yes, it is rather long. The author makes good points. After reading the article I am not sure how to comment on it without regurgitating what the author has already said. However, I do think that there were valuable lessons to be learned from the whole "bubble" phenomena and we did not necessarily learn those lessons.
Before telling other folks to "look it up," you might want to clean up your own grammar as well as word usage. For example, "..is a 2 grade level.." should read "..is a 2nd grade level.." Also, if you follow the rules for using commas, your last sentence simplifies to, "Bush has made me to be embarrassed for being American." In addition, that should also be "an American." I could go on but there are too many other errors. You are welcome to correct mine, of course.
I don't think I would expect any more from Kerry. The debates are tightly choreographed and neither candidate's "handlers" are going to allow them stray far from a safe script. So, the debates end up being more about style than substance. Which candidate looks more "presidential," more like a "leader," and makes people feel good about them. Style over substance has been the rule for these debates for a long time.
-erick
I would like to be able to sample a song for at least a minute though being able to stream the whole song would be nice. Thirty seconds is not long enough, a minute would do.
ALLOFMP3 occasionally tosses out an oldie album for free. That is a nice marketing touch. This wouldn't be necessary but I would probably check back more often to see what promotions were ongoing.
I like my downloads to be unencumbered mp3. No DRM. If I am only paying fifty-cents per song I don't have a lot of incentive to cheat. It sounds like a lot to ask by DRM is a scourge. An ideal music source would also have all of the major labels and quite a bit of the balance. Not asking for much, am I?
-erick
The licensing deal with M.A.V. could be worth up to £14 million ($21.5 million) over the next fifteen years depending on the number of spaceships built by Virgin.
The development alone of the technology is predictably high:
It is expected that around £60 million ($100 million) will be invested in developing the new generation of spaceships and ground infrastructure required to operate a sub orbital space tourism experience.
The revenue for flights seems about what one would expect:
Over five years Virgin expects to create around 3000 astronauts and the price per seat on each flight, which will include at least three days of pre-flight training, are expected to start at around £115,000 ($190,000).
So, given all of these numbers, doesn't $21M for a license seem low?
-erick
Fortunately we have meta-moderating to fix this problem. I meta-moderate as often as three times a day and I do try to find where content was not a problem but a strong opinion one way or the other had to have led to being modded down. People who get "overturned," so to speak, don't end up getting mod points again. -erick
-erick
-erick
It must really suck to be a democrat.
Too late: All of your name are belong to us. Signed, The U.S.