Reading the article, it's stated that: The suggested new rates would increase to $.0008 per-play for 2006 (retroactively), $.0011 for 2007, $.0014 in 2008, $.0018 in 2009 and $.0019 for 2010.
Then it states: By our estimates, WXPN could be paying about $1 million a year in royalties under the CRB's ruling.
To rack one million bucks in one year, wouldn't you have to play 555 million songs in that one year period? That's about 63,000 per minute. Wow! Those must be some really short songs.
I like that idea, but how about modifying it so it's a limited time offer? You've got until 2009 to "sublet" your bandwidth, at which time your renters switch to paying their fees to the FCC.
If you didn't take advantage of the offer, you lose out on the opportunity to have the renters subsidize the transition. The sooner you get your digital service in place, the more of the transition is paid for by the subleasees.
When do I get the new eyes that go with this?
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RGB to become RGBCMY
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Human perception of color is all based on having three types of cone in the retina: Cones that are sensitive to red, green and blue. Color is percieved as a ratio of those primaries. The eye can't tell the difference between equal amounts of red and green, and a single wavelength yellow light.
Heck, take a look at their "color craze" diagram. Making their RGB primaries more saturated would do more to improve the color gamut than adding additional wavelengths.
That said, for those with abnormal color perception, like some forms of color blindness, additional primaries that line up better with their peak sensitivities might make television appear more like how they percieve color in the real world.
What happens if none of Microsoft's appeals work, and they have to pay the fine? Will things improve for anyone? Microsoft can simply think of this as part of the cost of doing business in Europe and pass the extra cost onto YOU. Worse, Microsoft could be encouraged to continue their predatory practices because, heck, they've already paid for their license to do so.
What should REALLY happen to Microsoft:
1: The company should be split into two, one that sells Windows, and one that sells all of the Applications and addons like Office, IE, Windows Media, MicroTunes, etc. These companies should have no financial relationship with each other except:
2: The OS company should be forced to lower their prices by however much the App company charges for the unbundled pieces. For example, if the App company charges $19.95 for Windows Media, Windows itself should get cheaper by that amount. Think what that would mean for IE! If the App company wants anyone to buy their browser over free options like Mozilla, it really needs to be better than Mozilla. Wow. Competition based on merit....
3: The App company should have to freely publish their file formats. When everyone who has a word processor or spreadsheet application can easily read and write the Office formats, users won't be forced to use Microsoft products if they don't want to. If the products REALLY ARE better, people will use them, but not because they have to.
None of these thing should be objectionable to Microsoft if they actually have the best products and can legitimately compete on the basis of merit.
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Well, that would be a lot of streams still. The article says they have three.
It was pointed out above that those fees are per listener, something I didn't see in the original article.
As Emily Latella would say: "Oh. That's quite different. Never Mind."
Sorry, that's 1000 or so per minute, 60,000 or so per hour. My math, not so good either.
Reading the article, it's stated that: The suggested new rates would increase to $.0008 per-play for 2006 (retroactively), $.0011 for 2007, $.0014 in 2008, $.0018 in 2009 and $.0019 for 2010.
Then it states: By our estimates, WXPN could be paying about $1 million a year in royalties under the CRB's ruling.
To rack one million bucks in one year, wouldn't you have to play 555 million songs in that one year period? That's about 63,000 per minute. Wow! Those must be some really short songs.
I like that idea, but how about modifying it so it's a limited time offer? You've got until 2009 to "sublet" your bandwidth, at which time your renters switch to paying their fees to the FCC.
If you didn't take advantage of the offer, you lose out on the opportunity to have the renters subsidize the transition. The sooner you get your digital service in place, the more of the transition is paid for by the subleasees.
Human perception of color is all based on having three types of cone in the retina: Cones that are sensitive to red, green and blue. Color is percieved as a ratio of those primaries. The eye can't tell the difference between equal amounts of red and green, and a single wavelength yellow light.
Heck, take a look at their "color craze" diagram. Making their RGB primaries more saturated would do more to improve the color gamut than adding additional wavelengths.
That said, for those with abnormal color perception, like some forms of color blindness, additional primaries that line up better with their peak sensitivities might make television appear more like how they percieve color in the real world.
What happens if none of Microsoft's appeals work, and they have to pay the fine? Will things improve for anyone? Microsoft can simply think of this as part of the cost of doing business in Europe and pass the extra cost onto YOU. Worse, Microsoft could be encouraged to continue their predatory practices because, heck, they've already paid for their license to do so.
What should REALLY happen to Microsoft:
1: The company should be split into two, one that sells Windows, and one that sells all of the Applications and addons like Office, IE, Windows Media, MicroTunes, etc. These companies should have no financial relationship with each other except:
2: The OS company should be forced to lower their prices by however much the App company charges for the unbundled pieces. For example, if the App company charges $19.95 for Windows Media, Windows itself should get cheaper by that amount. Think what that would mean for IE! If the App company wants anyone to buy their browser over free options like Mozilla, it really needs to be better than Mozilla. Wow. Competition based on merit....
3: The App company should have to freely publish their file formats. When everyone who has a word processor or spreadsheet application can easily read and write the Office formats, users won't be forced to use Microsoft products if they don't want to. If the products REALLY ARE better, people will use them, but not because they have to.
None of these thing should be objectionable to Microsoft if they actually have the best products and can legitimately compete on the basis of merit.
I know, it'll never happen.
-John