Basically, Google said no basically because disclosing information on search to the govt puts them at risk for all kinds of outside data mining. Also, if Google disclosed information and I knew about it I'd use another search engine.
The ideal situation is that I could give the player a list of SHA hashes (from my eMule client or something) of files that I would like to upload.
Then I could go about my daily business and my player would pick up the files on the fly.
this and the fact that nowhere in any article is
bail even mentioned. So the slashdot editors just
put out crap without any fact checking.
Cheers slashdot
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A recent story on slashdot mentioned that Intel's production cost per chip is $40. Retail price can be as high as 10 times that. The answer to your question is clear.
AMD is offering Dell tremendous discounts on their chips--probably selling to Dell at prices other PC assemblers can only dream about. This allows Dell to sell at rock-bottom prices. For Dell and Intel this creates a "virtuous circle" where Dell builds increasing market share using only Intel chips.
I am sure Intel will offer Dell "whatever" it takes to keep the exclusive arrangement. And Dell will always be able to undercut the competition and increase market share.
Hey guys, software engineering is not the most intellectually demanding thing (modern math, bioengineering, and like a hundred other things come first) on the planet. Yahoo and Google are hiring now and they'll fire later. Big deal.
Movies to go
Jul 7th 2005
From The Economist print edition
Can Netflix's Reed Hastings succeed in the battle to deliver movies online?
LATER this year, Netflix will launch a new service for downloading movies from the internet. "It will be underwhelming," promises Reed Hastings, chief executive of America's leading online DVD-rental company. Despite a recent ruling by America's Supreme Court that gives entertainment companies more ammunition to fight against illegal file-sharing, movie studios are likely to remain extremely cautious about what films they make available for a fee on the web.
For now, that suits Netflix. Mr Hastings believes that the humble DVD--and, eventually, high-definition versions of it--will remain popular for some time, not least because that is what the movie industry wants: sales of DVDs and fees from rentals are an essential source of the studios' profits from new releases. But Mr Hastings is also betting that by the time movie-download technology becomes more mature and online titles more widely available, his subscriber base for DVD rentals will be big enough to put Netflix in a strong position to prosper in the online marketplace--where he is likely to face new competitors such as Yahoo!, Microsoft, the studios themselves and, no doubt, many start-up firms offering rival download services.
Changes in technology encourage start-ups with innovative ideas to enter markets, just as Netflix did in 1999 when--having been stung with a $40 late-payment from a Blockbuster video-rental store--Mr Hastings launched its subscription service. He was already a successful entrepreneur, having built up a software company before he started Netflix. For its most popular service, Netflix charges users $17.99 a month for an unlimited number of DVD rentals. Titles are ordered via the company's website and dispatched overnight. Customers mail them back in a pre-paid envelope, which releases the next movie on a personalised list of films to see. Subscribers can have up to three DVDs out at any time. Needless to say, there are no late fees.
The Netflix business model has proved to be such a simple and highly effective combination of the online and offline worlds that it has spawned imitators in Britain, France, Germany, Australia and Japan. Netflix, which is based in Los Gatos, California, was about to launch in Britain last year when it decided it had better withdraw from going international, for now, in order to concentrate on a life-threatening war on its home front. The all-conquering retailer, Wal-Mart, and Blockbuster, the world's biggest chain of video-rental shops, both decided to offer online DVD rental at lower prices. Amazon has since started to experiment with a DVD-rental service in Britain--but has not yet launched a similar service in America, and some suspect it may instead team up with an existing competitor.
Certainly, the cost of entering the market has gone up. Netflix has slashed its own prices and launched a one DVD out at a time service for just $9.99 a month. In the past year its share price tumbled as investors saw profits being pumped into an aggressive marketing campaign (costing nearly 20% of its revenues). The company expects to make a net loss of $5m-15m this year. Nevertheless, Mr Hastings says Netflix has $175m in cash and no debt. "We can sustain this for a very long time," he adds. Indeed, Netflix is showing signs that it is getting the upper hand. In May, Wal-Mart pulled out, awarding its online DVD-rental business to Netflix. Yet, tempting as it might be, Mr Hastings declines to trumpet that Netflix beat the world's biggest retailer. Indeed, Wal-Mart's bosses say they merely took a strategic decision to focus on selling DVDs rather than renting them. Netflix and Wal-Mart will now promote each other's products.
Meanwhile, Blockbuster, which lost $1.2 billion last year, hopes
The fact that the cited article is on the indymedia website pretty much guarantees it's wrong. In almost every area of their reporting, Indymedia favors propaganda and the tarbrush over clear analysis.
Here's a great line from the article:
Beware of the US spies at the USAID and beware Microsoft's so-called "Local Economic Development Program for Software," which is insurgent in Brazil and Jordan.
connecting "US spies at USAID" and "Microsoft" is classic tarbrushing. It really pisses me off.
This is not purely a Windows issue--although it was enabled by the wrong users having administrator rights.
The story is really about criminal conspiracy. Simply put, a clever programmer wrote trojan horse spyware and found three private investigative companies to backdoor the trojan into major company systems, collect information, and market it. Private investigative companies play a very big role in the Israeli economy because there are so many retired intelligence agents who market their skills to businesses for many purposes.
The Trojan was set up by sending target company managers in "demo" disks of software purportedly for sale. The "demo", run by a manager, would install the spyware. The investigative companies then cherry-picked valuable information (sales reports, competitive assessments, etc.) and they simply picked companies in each business category to take on as clients--one cellular phone company got another's inside information, one cable company got another's inside information, one auto importer got another's info, etc. etc.
The private investigators simply sold to the highest bidder. The really interesting thing is that it's not clear whether there are laws on the books in Israel strong enough to convict the PIs! This may just be more of what is referred to in Israel as Israel-bluff.
Right now the best developers are going to work for Google and they are producing the best software.
I was blown away by Picasa and Hello when I started using them. The desktop search is so good it's kind of spooky.
Google seems to be trying to produce all necessary "lifestyle" software, and they're doing this very well. I am not recommending that anyone buy Google stock, but they deserve a thousand thanks for raising the bar on free (as in beer) software.
What you are saying may be true for physics, but it's not true for all fields in science.
Inventiones Mathematicae is one of the best math journals (it published part of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem) and they are definitely FOR PROFIT.
In some fields, especially where research grants don't usually cover publication charges, pay for publish journals are "vanity" journals.
Currently the vast majority of academic journals are controlled by a cartel of a few publishers, which thrive by charging very high prices to research libraries (thousands of dollars a year for subscriptions to a few hundred journal pages)--for example, Kluwer alone controls hundreds of journals. These same publishers enjoy the cooperation of the best scientists who edit and peer-review the journals without any compensation for their many hours of work.
Preeminent scientific journals are essentially brand names (think "Nike" or "Adidas") and other than marketing cache offer nothing to the scientific community.
The situation is unbearable especially in poorer countries where research libraries cannot afford the subscription prices to the best journals. My university is now in the process of difficult subscription cuts due to a lack of library budget.
All that is need for "open access" journals is the cooperation of the leaders of the scientific community for the benefit of all.
The inevitable replacement of current journals by "open-access" journals is the legacy of open source in general. It's very interesting to see the influence of open-source ideas in areas outside of software development.
I am so annoyed by the repeated coverage of the **IAs and their various lawsuits. The whole topic is boring.
What would be interesting would be hearing about peer-to-peer gateways set up in Russia (or wherever), enabling users to share files on their machines via some anonymizing servent in Russia. Of course there would be some small monthly fee to American users (payable, say, via paypal) to cover bandwidth (which is getting cheaper and cheaper anyway).
This will certainly happen. The **IA's can then go F themselves.
Yes, I found such files. It's frightening. I won't download, but if anyone does, I suggest you do tell them--they'll thank you. Of course, some of these "Tax Return 2004.pdf" files are just FBI honeypots.
Help!! I am a citizen of the USA who would like to run emule and download things Orrin Hatch says I can't.
Do you live in a copyright free country? I will pay you monthly via paypal for the ability to run eMule on your machine (say $3 a GB) and the ability to sftp downloaded files my computer. I want to watch classic films and mickey mouse cartoons and hard to find rare video footage without the Senate subcommittee on mind control and groupthought ordering my arrest and imprisonment.
finally! I am looking forward to using html features with their email...until now I had to switch to IE to be able to send bold, italic or colored text in email.
The main advantage to direct download of video content for distributors is that will have much more control over where and how many times their media is played. Via various encryption schemes that would require you providing a personal key, they could charge you per play, could restrict which players you use, etc.
Even if the TV/Movie distributors wake up and start offering downloads playable in their own proprietary players (which is why Winamp is being developed for free--because eventually it will offer a proprietary DRM version) it's too late.
Sooner or later the distributors will try to develop a secondary market (for distribution after the original broadcast) because many people (myself included) would pay $1 a show.
It won't work.
As long as there is a signal that can be intercepted at the display, clever software guys will intercept it and put the content on p2p networks. And p2p can't be stopped outside of the US. Europe doesn't really give a shit about American production companies' profits.
And in Russia and China and southeast Asia copyright law is either non-existant or not enforced.
Sorry media production and distribution companies. All your base are belong to us.
The MPAA may be able to stop Americans from downloading by bludgeoning them with lawsuits. However, in Europe no enforcement is going on and in Russia copyright law is practically nonexistent.
The reason DVD quality copies of the Oscar nominated films are available on eMule is because the studios themselves distributed the DVD screener copies to members of the MPAA. For example, a DVD quality copy of "Million Dollar Baby" is available on over 20000 peers, in over 10 languages.
It seems likely that the leaks that allow all this 'illegal' downloading came directly from MPAA members.
Who the fuck is this guy? He's the head of "quiet please" at U Cal Fresno. I have 1000 scanned books relating to my profession on my hard drive and I don't need his library. I am comfortably working out of my home via the web.
What an asshole!
Slashdot Mirror
Basically, Google said no basically because disclosing information on search to the govt puts them at risk for all kinds of outside data mining. Also, if Google disclosed information and I knew about it I'd use another search engine.
The ideal situation is that I could give the player a list of SHA hashes (from my eMule client or something) of files that I would like to upload.
Then I could go about my daily business and my player would pick up the files on the fly.
this and the fact that nowhere in any article is bail even mentioned. So the slashdot editors just put out crap without any fact checking. Cheers slashdot
A recent story on slashdot mentioned that Intel's production cost per chip is $40. Retail price can be as high as 10 times that. The answer to your question is clear.
AMD is offering Dell tremendous discounts on their chips--probably selling to Dell at prices other PC assemblers can only dream about. This allows Dell to sell at rock-bottom prices. For Dell and Intel this creates a "virtuous circle" where Dell builds increasing market share using only Intel chips.
I am sure Intel will offer Dell "whatever" it takes to keep the exclusive arrangement. And Dell will always be able to undercut the competition and increase market share.
Hey guys, software engineering is not the most intellectually demanding thing (modern math, bioengineering, and like a hundred other things come first) on the planet. Yahoo and Google are hiring now and they'll fire later. Big deal.
See here for more info. Or read on.
Movies to go Jul 7th 2005 From The Economist print edition
Can Netflix's Reed Hastings succeed in the battle to deliver movies online?
LATER this year, Netflix will launch a new service for downloading movies from the internet. "It will be underwhelming," promises Reed Hastings, chief executive of America's leading online DVD-rental company. Despite a recent ruling by America's Supreme Court that gives entertainment companies more ammunition to fight against illegal file-sharing, movie studios are likely to remain extremely cautious about what films they make available for a fee on the web.
For now, that suits Netflix. Mr Hastings believes that the humble DVD--and, eventually, high-definition versions of it--will remain popular for some time, not least because that is what the movie industry wants: sales of DVDs and fees from rentals are an essential source of the studios' profits from new releases. But Mr Hastings is also betting that by the time movie-download technology becomes more mature and online titles more widely available, his subscriber base for DVD rentals will be big enough to put Netflix in a strong position to prosper in the online marketplace--where he is likely to face new competitors such as Yahoo!, Microsoft, the studios themselves and, no doubt, many start-up firms offering rival download services.
Changes in technology encourage start-ups with innovative ideas to enter markets, just as Netflix did in 1999 when--having been stung with a $40 late-payment from a Blockbuster video-rental store--Mr Hastings launched its subscription service. He was already a successful entrepreneur, having built up a software company before he started Netflix. For its most popular service, Netflix charges users $17.99 a month for an unlimited number of DVD rentals. Titles are ordered via the company's website and dispatched overnight. Customers mail them back in a pre-paid envelope, which releases the next movie on a personalised list of films to see. Subscribers can have up to three DVDs out at any time. Needless to say, there are no late fees.
The Netflix business model has proved to be such a simple and highly effective combination of the online and offline worlds that it has spawned imitators in Britain, France, Germany, Australia and Japan. Netflix, which is based in Los Gatos, California, was about to launch in Britain last year when it decided it had better withdraw from going international, for now, in order to concentrate on a life-threatening war on its home front. The all-conquering retailer, Wal-Mart, and Blockbuster, the world's biggest chain of video-rental shops, both decided to offer online DVD rental at lower prices. Amazon has since started to experiment with a DVD-rental service in Britain--but has not yet launched a similar service in America, and some suspect it may instead team up with an existing competitor.
Certainly, the cost of entering the market has gone up. Netflix has slashed its own prices and launched a one DVD out at a time service for just $9.99 a month. In the past year its share price tumbled as investors saw profits being pumped into an aggressive marketing campaign (costing nearly 20% of its revenues). The company expects to make a net loss of $5m-15m this year. Nevertheless, Mr Hastings says Netflix has $175m in cash and no debt. "We can sustain this for a very long time," he adds. Indeed, Netflix is showing signs that it is getting the upper hand. In May, Wal-Mart pulled out, awarding its online DVD-rental business to Netflix. Yet, tempting as it might be, Mr Hastings declines to trumpet that Netflix beat the world's biggest retailer. Indeed, Wal-Mart's bosses say they merely took a strategic decision to focus on selling DVDs rather than renting them. Netflix and Wal-Mart will now promote each other's products.
Meanwhile, Blockbuster, which lost $1.2 billion last year, hopes
or is it:
No, wait!
Yes, 10,000,000 people will read this so it's important that I get it right!
The fact that the cited article is on the indymedia website pretty much guarantees it's wrong. In almost every area of their reporting, Indymedia favors propaganda and the tarbrush over clear analysis.
Here's a great line from the article:
Beware of the US spies at the USAID and beware Microsoft's so-called "Local Economic Development Program for Software," which is insurgent in Brazil and Jordan.
connecting "US spies at USAID" and "Microsoft" is classic tarbrushing. It really pisses me off.
This is not purely a Windows issue--although it was enabled by the wrong users having administrator rights.
The story is really about criminal conspiracy. Simply put, a clever programmer wrote trojan horse spyware and found three private investigative companies to backdoor the trojan into major company systems, collect information, and market it. Private investigative companies play a very big role in the Israeli economy because there are so many retired intelligence agents who market their skills to businesses for many purposes.
The Trojan was set up by sending target company managers in "demo" disks of software purportedly for sale. The "demo", run by a manager, would install the spyware. The investigative companies then cherry-picked valuable information (sales reports, competitive assessments, etc.) and they simply picked companies in each business category to take on as clients--one cellular phone company got another's inside information, one cable company got another's inside information, one auto importer got another's info, etc. etc.
The private investigators simply sold to the highest bidder. The really interesting thing is that it's not clear whether there are laws on the books in Israel strong enough to convict the PIs! This may just be more of what is referred to in Israel as Israel-bluff.
Right now the best developers are going to work for Google and they are producing the best software.
I was blown away by Picasa and Hello when I started using them. The desktop search is so good it's kind of spooky.
Google seems to be trying to produce all necessary "lifestyle" software, and they're doing this very well. I am not recommending that anyone buy Google stock, but they deserve a thousand thanks for raising the bar on free (as in beer) software.
What you are saying may be true for physics, but it's not true for all fields in science.
Inventiones Mathematicae is one of the best math journals (it published part of the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem) and they are definitely FOR PROFIT.
In some fields, especially where research grants don't usually cover publication charges, pay for publish journals are "vanity" journals.
Currently the vast majority of academic journals are controlled by a cartel of a few publishers, which thrive by charging very high prices to research libraries (thousands of dollars a year for subscriptions to a few hundred journal pages)--for example, Kluwer alone controls hundreds of journals. These same publishers enjoy the cooperation of the best scientists who edit and peer-review the journals without any compensation for their many hours of work.
Preeminent scientific journals are essentially brand names (think "Nike" or "Adidas") and other than marketing cache offer nothing to the scientific community.
The situation is unbearable especially in poorer countries where research libraries cannot afford the subscription prices to the best journals. My university is now in the process of difficult subscription cuts due to a lack of library budget.
All that is need for "open access" journals is the cooperation of the leaders of the scientific community for the benefit of all.
The inevitable replacement of current journals by "open-access" journals is the legacy of open source in general. It's very interesting to see the influence of open-source ideas in areas outside of software development.
I am so annoyed by the repeated coverage of the **IAs and their various lawsuits. The whole topic is boring.
What would be interesting would be hearing about peer-to-peer gateways set up in Russia (or wherever), enabling users to share files on their machines via some anonymizing servent in Russia. Of course there would be some small monthly fee to American users (payable, say, via paypal) to cover bandwidth (which is getting cheaper and cheaper anyway).
This will certainly happen. The **IA's can then go F themselves.
great! can the compressed air intake tube be hooked up to the bottom of the driver's seat? This could be the perfect geekmobile!
Of course one of Shatner's main conditions is that he would have to play the young Kirk.
Ep. 1: Young Kirk wins the Academy karaoke contest with a rousing rendition of a Beatles classic.
Yes, I found such files. It's frightening. I won't download, but if anyone does, I suggest you do tell them--they'll thank you. Of course, some of these "Tax Return 2004.pdf" files are just FBI honeypots.
You are completely right! I am only joking, JOKING!!! JOKING!! Yikes...someone's at the door...aaaaah
Help!! I am a citizen of the USA who would like to run emule and download things Orrin Hatch says I can't.
Do you live in a copyright free country? I will pay you monthly via paypal for the ability to run eMule on your machine (say $3 a GB) and the ability to sftp downloaded files my computer. I want to watch classic films and mickey mouse cartoons and hard to find rare video footage without the Senate subcommittee on mind control and groupthought ordering my arrest and imprisonment.
finally! I am looking forward to using html features with their email...until now I had to switch to IE to be able to send bold, italic or colored text in email.
The main advantage to direct download of video content for distributors is that will have much more control over where and how many times their media is played. Via various encryption schemes that would require you providing a personal key, they could charge you per play, could restrict which players you use, etc.
It's all about DRM and their control.
Even if the TV/Movie distributors wake up and start offering downloads playable in their own proprietary players (which is why Winamp is being developed for free--because eventually it will offer a proprietary DRM version) it's too late.
Sooner or later the distributors will try to develop a secondary market (for distribution after the original broadcast) because many people (myself included) would pay $1 a show.
It won't work.
As long as there is a signal that can be intercepted at the display, clever software guys will intercept it and put the content on p2p networks. And p2p can't be stopped outside of the US. Europe doesn't really give a shit about American production companies' profits. And in Russia and China and southeast Asia copyright law is either non-existant or not enforced.
Sorry media production and distribution companies. All your base are belong to us.
(1) the files are hashed so that they are for all intents and purposes they uniquely identifiable by their overall content, not just the title.
(2) The lawsuits are against people uploading to others. Downloading might indeed be legitimate if the downloader owns the content.
Cheers.
The MPAA may be able to stop Americans from downloading by bludgeoning them with lawsuits. However, in Europe no enforcement is going on and in Russia copyright law is practically nonexistent.
The reason DVD quality copies of the Oscar nominated films are available on eMule is because the studios themselves distributed the DVD screener copies to members of the MPAA. For example, a DVD quality copy of "Million Dollar Baby" is available on over 20000 peers, in over 10 languages.
It seems likely that the leaks that allow all this 'illegal' downloading came directly from MPAA members.
Who the fuck is this guy? He's the head of "quiet please" at U Cal Fresno.
I have 1000 scanned books relating to my profession on my hard drive and I don't need his library. I am comfortably working out of my home via the web.
What an asshole!
He rolled like a $45,000 whore...