Apple isn't making money off of selling the music because the record companies are charging such high fees for apple to have the ability to provide them. On average apple (last i heard) was making 3-5 cents per downloaded song. Apple isn't making any money off of it because they're just acting as the middle man and passing all of the profits off to the record companies who are doing quite well at 95cents per song. (roughly $12 for 12 songs and there are no distribution costs.. basically the same cash they would see selling the songs on CD)
Every small record company that I've heard talking about the profitability of putting their artist's songs on itunes have raved about how much money was coming in (surprisingly large amounts).
With all of this in mind... I'll pay my 1$ for a single song, which I think is fair. And I refuse to have my bandwidth used to help make them money.
Well let's assume that we're not talking about piracy, since we're suppost to assume that this new wonderful bittorrent technology has legal benifits to the world (mass distribution of large files of all sorts... legal and not).
So if we're talking about a legit protocol that's not being designed as a digital theft device, your argument flops. Suddenly we want a protocol that dosen't allow people to falsify their upload figures because we don't want the system to fail because everyone is falsly inflating their numbers. We want a system where everyone is getting a fair chance to get the file using the protocol in the way it was meant to function.
Allowing users to inflate their upload numbers circumvents the proper functioning of the system as a whole.
It's a bug. If I were to use this too get access to the download in a greater proportion than I should be able to, then I would be exploiting that bug. Thus... I call it an exploit.
If this is "the way bittorrent works" then it needs to be changed. You don't just leave a bug there and call it a feature of the protocol... that would make you similar to a certain company generally derided for doing the same thing here at/.
Let's assume that slashdot, every time you submitted a comment, included a variable that incremented the "number of comments you've made today". Let's call it "inccom=1" and lets say that in the code while it's processing your comment it just adds "total comments" with "inccom" and gets the total number of comments you've made today.
This would be a stupid way to measure the total number of comments because I could simply modify this value to 0 or -1 and make an unlimited number of comments every day. This would be a way of messing up the system. This would be an exploit.
So why is the bittorrent protocol doing (essentially) this?
I'd still call this a venerability. An end user getting a type of access that they shouldn't be able to get. I don't know the protocol with enough depth to make a practical suggestion, so I'll refrain from doing that, but if this is something that subverts the use of the system then it is a venerability and should be fixed.
I also agree with some of the above comments that this should be made public for the same reasons that MS should make all exploits public. The sooner everyone knows about it, the sooner there will be fixes for it out of nessecity.
I appologize. a 25% price increase clearly puts it out of the realm of possibility... since the price will undoubtedly go down in the near future, and you can already get them cheaper on ebay.
No doubt it's too high for MY tastes, but that's what he said he wanted.:D
less heat, less energy consumption, potential for smaller pathways, and higher speed (by definition thanks to the tidbit of information you shared with us just there.)
It's required because they're having trouble explaining where all of this stuff came from, so they simply assign it to "the great beyond" and don't have to worry about it anymore.
Saying that life arrived here on a comet isn't even slighly better than saying God put it here. Neither are explainations, just excuses.
As a fan of OSS I'm required to tell you that you should do it yourself. We're trying to make software that has millions of hidden features! User interface is for wimps (gimps?) lol
Linux didn't get where it is by being a crappy OS, mabie you just don't have what it takes to run a Linux OS.
Therein lies the difference between the Linux community and the rest of the world. We want a computer that works correctly and OFFERS actions that just work.
You want to discover how these things work as though they were a mystery. Then you want to be the only one who knows how it works so you feel a little more special. Then you want to make it easy enough for the desktop. Then you want to deride anyone who's trying to figure out how to wrestle with their Linux powered desktop, to trick it into doing what they want it to do by telling them that they aren't 'man enough' to run it.
Your operating system is not suppost to BE the project. It's suppost to be the transparent part that allows you to work on your real project without any problems. I shouldn't need to HAVE anything to run a Linux OS except a keyboard and a mouse and an understanding of both.
Linux got exactly where it is by being a crappy OS. What's that market share again?
did you read my comment or just reply to it with mindless blather?
My comment: tv's have lower resolutions and are lower quality than monitors. most computer's have tv outputs (whether you realize it or not) so if you really want to see it on tv you CAN.
But I also commented that computers WEREN'T the future of this tech, instead you would see it on Tivo/Direct TV style boxes. Anotherwords, it's still digital and it's still on a 'computer' but it's a dedicated computer.
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Please don't make stupid points.
If you're printing an 8.5x11 document on a 48" plotter you should expect that either it prints in 8.5x11 and looks identical to a printed page on a standard HP printer (leaving alot of un-used paper around it) or you tinker with the printer's scaling settings and stretch the document out to fit on your 48" plotter.
If you're printing a document on a 3x5 photo printer, then either it should scale down to the size of the printer, or be severely cut-off (3x5 out of 8.5x11).
Printers aren't intended to work like web-browsers, with fluid layouts forcing the font and features of the page to flow around one another without changing sizes. A document is suppost to be constistant in layout and should simply resize or crop to suit the printer.
More to the point, why would anyone by trying to print out a legal contract on either a 48" plotter or a 3x5 photo printer. Please disengage your head from your ass.
TV is reliable, but is far from 'on-demand' unless all you mean is that it turns on when you hit the power button.
The idea that he's throwing out there is that you could have these broadcasts when you chose to have them, not just streaming the same content to everyone simultaneously (ala winamp tv).
Most new video cards have outputs for your television is you're intent on seeing it on a low resolution tv screen and myth TV isn't that bad of an option for this sort of technology.
The direction I see it _actually_ going is that in a few years your Tivo or DirectTV or digital cable box will have a new menu allowing you to grab the show/episode that you're looking for. The show will be paused every 10-15 minutes for 5-10 minutes of commercials (actually more often and shorter would be more likely as it's harder to avoid them).
I really can't picture this idea gaining steam on a computer for all the reasons that you stated, but in a proprietary box (basically a computer anyway) I can see this being extremely popular.
(the sports pass... sit down and watch any game in history. woot)
What you speak of is a well funded, well run, well organized government. 'Strong' government, in the way that it's most commonly used is a government with it's hand in everything from what types of toothbrush you can use in the morning, to the chip implanted in your head. Generally everyone (even jefferson) envisions a well funded, well run government.
I'd like to propose that stupidity is being bred for in the future of our race. I don't have a single hard fact to back this up so just float with me on this one.
Your average middle-class college educated man will have roughly 2.4 children. Your average (harf) upper-class individual will have the same or fewer kids. At the same time, your average lower-class man will father many children, to (broad generalization warning) many women. The women will simultaneously have a high number of children due to welfare increases.
Granted money!=intelligence but it can be safe to say that those among us with mental deficiencies will find it harder to find gainful employment and will find themselves among the lower income brackets.
One could also make arguments about the intelligence required to put on a condom. According to my very basic understanding of evolution, it seems that on a long enough timeline, the ability to put on a condom would get bred out of our species.:D
Seems like it would just be way easier to just plug it in at home and live with the fact that I'm only going to get ~16hours out of my iPod, 24hrs of standby on my cellphone... 5hrs out of my laptop. etc.
Alternative energy like this won't really get anybody's interest until it's passive (except all of us. lol). As long as it's more work than plugging it into the wall at home, we'll keep doing just that.
In the meantime, just how many active vibrator's does that translate into?:D
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did you not see Get Shorty or Be Cool? common the guy's got style ;)
Apple isn't making money off of selling the music because the record companies are charging such high fees for apple to have the ability to provide them. On average apple (last i heard) was making 3-5 cents per downloaded song. Apple isn't making any money off of it because they're just acting as the middle man and passing all of the profits off to the record companies who are doing quite well at 95cents per song. (roughly $12 for 12 songs and there are no distribution costs.. basically the same cash they would see selling the songs on CD)
Every small record company that I've heard talking about the profitability of putting their artist's songs on itunes have raved about how much money was coming in (surprisingly large amounts).
With all of this in mind... I'll pay my 1$ for a single song, which I think is fair. And I refuse to have my bandwidth used to help make them money.
Well let's assume that we're not talking about piracy, since we're suppost to assume that this new wonderful bittorrent technology has legal benifits to the world (mass distribution of large files of all sorts... legal and not).
/.
So if we're talking about a legit protocol that's not being designed as a digital theft device, your argument flops. Suddenly we want a protocol that dosen't allow people to falsify their upload figures because we don't want the system to fail because everyone is falsly inflating their numbers. We want a system where everyone is getting a fair chance to get the file using the protocol in the way it was meant to function.
Allowing users to inflate their upload numbers circumvents the proper functioning of the system as a whole.
It's a bug. If I were to use this too get access to the download in a greater proportion than I should be able to, then I would be exploiting that bug. Thus... I call it an exploit.
If this is "the way bittorrent works" then it needs to be changed. You don't just leave a bug there and call it a feature of the protocol... that would make you similar to a certain company generally derided for doing the same thing here at
It's the modern Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a much larger series of entries for the planet earth.
Mostly Harmless.
The letters are insignificant if you knew what I meant.
Let's assume that slashdot, every time you submitted a comment, included a variable that incremented the "number of comments you've made today". Let's call it "inccom=1" and lets say that in the code while it's processing your comment it just adds "total comments" with "inccom" and gets the total number of comments you've made today.
This would be a stupid way to measure the total number of comments because I could simply modify this value to 0 or -1 and make an unlimited number of comments every day. This would be a way of messing up the system. This would be an exploit.
So why is the bittorrent protocol doing (essentially) this?
I'd still call this a venerability. An end user getting a type of access that they shouldn't be able to get. I don't know the protocol with enough depth to make a practical suggestion, so I'll refrain from doing that, but if this is something that subverts the use of the system then it is a venerability and should be fixed.
I also agree with some of the above comments that this should be made public for the same reasons that MS should make all exploits public. The sooner everyone knows about it, the sooner there will be fixes for it out of nessecity.
"Deluxe Edition R1 multi-lingual School Edition (proof of education required)"
hmm... shouldn't mention that i found them from slashdot then eh?
I appologize. a 25% price increase clearly puts it out of the realm of possibility... since the price will undoubtedly go down in the near future, and you can already get them cheaper on ebay.
:D
No doubt it's too high for MY tastes, but that's what he said he wanted.
less heat, less energy consumption, potential for smaller pathways, and higher speed (by definition thanks to the tidbit of information you shared with us just there.)
to name a few...
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It's required because they're having trouble explaining where all of this stuff came from, so they simply assign it to "the great beyond" and don't have to worry about it anymore.
Saying that life arrived here on a comet isn't even slighly better than saying God put it here. Neither are explainations, just excuses.
As a fan of OSS I'm required to tell you that you should do it yourself. We're trying to make software that has millions of hidden features! User interface is for wimps (gimps?) lol
Linux didn't get where it is by being a crappy OS, mabie you just don't have what it takes to run a Linux OS.
Therein lies the difference between the Linux community and the rest of the world. We want a computer that works correctly and OFFERS actions that just work.
You want to discover how these things work as though they were a mystery. Then you want to be the only one who knows how it works so you feel a little more special. Then you want to make it easy enough for the desktop. Then you want to deride anyone who's trying to figure out how to wrestle with their Linux powered desktop, to trick it into doing what they want it to do by telling them that they aren't 'man enough' to run it.
Your operating system is not suppost to BE the project. It's suppost to be the transparent part that allows you to work on your real project without any problems. I shouldn't need to HAVE anything to run a Linux OS except a keyboard and a mouse and an understanding of both.
Linux got exactly where it is by being a crappy OS. What's that market share again?
Nobody said anything about the bible. Keep your anti-religious bigotry to yourself and let's discuss science here on Slashdot.
did you read my comment or just reply to it with mindless blather?
My comment: tv's have lower resolutions and are lower quality than monitors. most computer's have tv outputs (whether you realize it or not) so if you really want to see it on tv you CAN.
But I also commented that computers WEREN'T the future of this tech, instead you would see it on Tivo/Direct TV style boxes. Anotherwords, it's still digital and it's still on a 'computer' but it's a dedicated computer.
Please don't make stupid points.
If you're printing an 8.5x11 document on a 48" plotter you should expect that either it prints in 8.5x11 and looks identical to a printed page on a standard HP printer (leaving alot of un-used paper around it) or you tinker with the printer's scaling settings and stretch the document out to fit on your 48" plotter.
If you're printing a document on a 3x5 photo printer, then either it should scale down to the size of the printer, or be severely cut-off (3x5 out of 8.5x11).
Printers aren't intended to work like web-browsers, with fluid layouts forcing the font and features of the page to flow around one another without changing sizes. A document is suppost to be constistant in layout and should simply resize or crop to suit the printer.
More to the point, why would anyone by trying to print out a legal contract on either a 48" plotter or a 3x5 photo printer. Please disengage your head from your ass.
It's a joke... but I'm a karma whore. Give it up mods!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_communicator
TV is reliable, but is far from 'on-demand' unless all you mean is that it turns on when you hit the power button.
... sit down and watch any game in history. woot)
The idea that he's throwing out there is that you could have these broadcasts when you chose to have them, not just streaming the same content to everyone simultaneously (ala winamp tv).
Most new video cards have outputs for your television is you're intent on seeing it on a low resolution tv screen and myth TV isn't that bad of an option for this sort of technology.
The direction I see it _actually_ going is that in a few years your Tivo or DirectTV or digital cable box will have a new menu allowing you to grab the show/episode that you're looking for. The show will be paused every 10-15 minutes for 5-10 minutes of commercials (actually more often and shorter would be more likely as it's harder to avoid them).
I really can't picture this idea gaining steam on a computer for all the reasons that you stated, but in a proprietary box (basically a computer anyway) I can see this being extremely popular.
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What you speak of is a well funded, well run, well organized government. 'Strong' government, in the way that it's most commonly used is a government with it's hand in everything from what types of toothbrush you can use in the morning, to the chip implanted in your head. Generally everyone (even jefferson) envisions a well funded, well run government.
I'd like to propose that stupidity is being bred for in the future of our race. I don't have a single hard fact to back this up so just float with me on this one.
:D
Your average middle-class college educated man will have roughly 2.4 children. Your average (harf) upper-class individual will have the same or fewer kids. At the same time, your average lower-class man will father many children, to (broad generalization warning) many women. The women will simultaneously have a high number of children due to welfare increases.
Granted money!=intelligence but it can be safe to say that those among us with mental deficiencies will find it harder to find gainful employment and will find themselves among the lower income brackets.
One could also make arguments about the intelligence required to put on a condom. According to my very basic understanding of evolution, it seems that on a long enough timeline, the ability to put on a condom would get bred out of our species.
6am thinking is FUN!
With her it's been downhill since 'If you had my love' sadly... but I'm with ya ;)
Seems like it would just be way easier to just plug it in at home and live with the fact that I'm only going to get ~16hours out of my iPod, 24hrs of standby on my cellphone... 5hrs out of my laptop. etc.
:D
Alternative energy like this won't really get anybody's interest until it's passive (except all of us. lol). As long as it's more work than plugging it into the wall at home, we'll keep doing just that.
In the meantime, just how many active vibrator's does that translate into?
Perhaps the state saw the latest Scarlett Johanson movie... rawr!