TFA seems to indicate that having a large number of access points for content (~(such as video, "bots, newsletters, a morning briefing app, a lean back iPad experience, Slack integration, a Snapchat channel, or a great partnership with Twitter") ~) is not the arrow to success. I would agree.
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With so many sources of content to compete with, the successful digital content provider does not go out to meet the content consumers, the content provider encourages the content consumers to come to meet it (i.e., the content provider).
With so many sources of content, the provider can easily get lost among them all.
So let your content stand out and let your content consumers find you.
I was speaking mainly about consumer licensing, which could also be called home licensing.
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So, now, what did I say that was so wrong?
Did or did not Microsoft say that Windows 7 would be supported until 2020? And did or did not Microsoft recently renege on that and say that Windows 7 now won't be fully supported through 2020? (hint: Skylake)
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It's like you're intentionally being dense.
Perhaps I am not the one who is dense here. Perhaps it is you who should really read up upon what Microsoft has been stating and promising regarding Windows 7 support.
Nope the first few seconds which generate the screen shot people start with are just the "album" art covers....
That's probably the rationale the content creator tried to use to justify the fantasy, but I don't buy it,
I am not forced to stare at an album cover before I can listen to an album. I can just pick up the album, skip over the cover and listen to the music.
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imo, the equivalent to the album cover would be the picture I click on in order to select the video (trailer) for viewing.
...Next time you're on Facebook, pay attention to how the popular videos in your newsfeed are edited. Is the most interesting image the first thing you see? And does that trick get you to stop scrolling and watch?...
Contrary to what the content creator fantasized would happen, the advertisement in front of the advertisement didn't fool me. I looked at it as little more than clutter that got in the way of me viewing what I wanted to view, so I just moved on without viewing what I had wanted to view.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the content creation types think that annoying their indented audience increases viewership.
...Unlike what seems like a large portion of Slashdot, I don't think there's an ethical defense for piracy....
I also do not think there is an ethical defense for piracy.
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However, there is also no ethical defense for the sloppy tactics used by the MPAA (and RIAA) to identify, accuse, pass judgment and punish. They have been shown time and time again to operate outside the law, accusing, judging and punishing innocent people.
If the MPAA and RIAA want to use the law to catch and punish pirates, then the MPAA and RIAA should work within the law to do so.
Why is it the ISP's responsibility to enforce copyright laws?...
It's not. This proposal is the basis for increasing the extortion done by the MPAA, e.g., "pay us $5000 and we won't have your ISP terminate your Internet access".
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It makes it a lot easier for the MPAA surrogates to extort people into paying up, instead of paying for a lawyer to defend oneself against trumped-up charges.
If the MPAA wants to do this, they had better significantly improve their ability to properly identify real pirates, and stop using the "your IP address" type of garbage.
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There also needs to be significant penalties if the MPAA mis-identifies someone as a pirate. I'm thinking a proper penalty for mis-identifying a pirate would be that the MPAA's Internet access be terminated.
As CEOs, it is part of their job responsibilities to affect government policy for the benefit of their corporations. CEOs have been doing exactly that for decades and decades.
... once Firefox's market share falls to the 10% area and lower, websites will no longer care about making sure they are compatible with Firefox.
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It looks as if my prediction is beginning to happen. Firefox is being left behind by website developers. Which will contribute to its marketshare slide even more if Mozilla doesn't do something drastic.
Yes, there will always be some piracy, I don't deny that. However...
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When the media industry has put reasonable pricing on content, the amount of piracy of that content has dropped significantly. Most people are honest and want to pay for product.
Piracy appears to flourish when content is not available legally, or when available content is priced unreasonably high.
It really is up to the media industry to find the right price for the content, a price that buyers are willing to pay.
It really is up to the media industry to stop the artificial shortages that are created via exclusive deals and such.
The amount of piracy seems increase or decrease in direct proportion with the greed of the media industry.
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Now the music industry is trying to extract more money from its listeners via exclusive and expensive contracts. That increase in music industry greed is triggering an increase in piracy because the content looks over-priced.
If you call asking my friends why they have stopped posting on facebook as much as they used to, and they tell me it was the data harvesting, then, yes, I was over thinking it.
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I agree boredom may play a part, but the main reason I hear is the data harvesting. It could be because my friends are more technical than most, though.
...What starts out as a special and intimate place to share things grows into a big, impersonal, and professional platform."...
The problem is that facebook participants slowly began to realize that anything and everything they post is harvested by the advertisers to build a profile of you.
...They say that Stuxnet got deployed like this. Awesome hack, Stuxnet....
Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who picked them up, 60 percent plugged the devices into office computers, curious to see what they contained. If the drive or CD case had an official logo, 90 percent were installed....
Slashdot Mirror
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With so many sources of content to compete with, the successful digital content provider does not go out to meet the content consumers, the content provider encourages the content consumers to come to meet it (i.e., the content provider).
With so many sources of content, the provider can easily get lost among them all.
So let your content stand out and let your content consumers find you.
Obviously we're talking about home licensing....
I was speaking mainly about consumer licensing, which could also be called home licensing.
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So, now, what did I say that was so wrong?
Did or did not Microsoft say that Windows 7 would be supported until 2020? And did or did not Microsoft recently renege on that and say that Windows 7 now won't be fully supported through 2020? (hint: Skylake)
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It's like you're intentionally being dense.
Perhaps I am not the one who is dense here. Perhaps it is you who should really read up upon what Microsoft has been stating and promising regarding Windows 7 support.
I'd be happy with (1a) alone, with (1b) a nice addition.
...it's been very successful....
How much revenue have all those copies contributed to Microsoft's earnings?
h.t. Midnight Oil.
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
How can we dance when our earth is turning
How do we sleep while our beds are burning
Never. This is not only old news, it's been covered in depth that the operating system will not become something you have to pay each year for....
All Microsoft has stated was that there are no current plans to make Windows a pay-for SaaS.
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Those plans can change tomorrow, and their prior statements would still have been correct.
btw, Microsoft also stated that Windows 7 would be supported through 2020, but that has changed now, hasn't it?
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Get out from under your rock and read the news once in a while.
Perhaps you should take your own advice. :)
...CEO Satya Nadella's strategy is simple enough: grow Microsoft's revenues by convincing customers to adopt its paid subscription services....
Microsoft has already stated that they intend to make Windows 10 a service.
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Now Microsoft is saying that they want to move away from the "buy once" revenue model.
So how long before there is a monthly fee to use Windows?
Perhaps the enormous data harvesting is only the first of many egregious aspects of Windows 10.
Nope the first few seconds which generate the screen shot people start with are just the "album" art covers....
That's probably the rationale the content creator tried to use to justify the fantasy, but I don't buy it, I am not forced to stare at an album cover before I can listen to an album. I can just pick up the album, skip over the cover and listen to the music.
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imo, the equivalent to the album cover would be the picture I click on in order to select the video (trailer) for viewing.
...Next time you're on Facebook, pay attention to how the popular videos in your newsfeed are edited. Is the most interesting image the first thing you see? And does that trick get you to stop scrolling and watch?...
Contrary to what the content creator fantasized would happen, the advertisement in front of the advertisement didn't fool me. I looked at it as little more than clutter that got in the way of me viewing what I wanted to view, so I just moved on without viewing what I had wanted to view.
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It never ceases to amaze me how the content creation types think that annoying their indented audience increases viewership.
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Why don't we have the appropriate modeling? Because we do not have enough information to create those models.
Why don't we have the information to create the models? Because we do not explore the earth enough.
...Unlike what seems like a large portion of Slashdot, I don't think there's an ethical defense for piracy....
I also do not think there is an ethical defense for piracy.
.,br> However, there is also no ethical defense for the sloppy tactics used by the MPAA (and RIAA) to identify, accuse, pass judgment and punish. They have been shown time and time again to operate outside the law, accusing, judging and punishing innocent people.
If the MPAA and RIAA want to use the law to catch and punish pirates, then the MPAA and RIAA should work within the law to do so.
Why is it the ISP's responsibility to enforce copyright laws?...
It's not. This proposal is the basis for increasing the extortion done by the MPAA, e.g., "pay us $5000 and we won't have your ISP terminate your Internet access".
.
It makes it a lot easier for the MPAA surrogates to extort people into paying up, instead of paying for a lawyer to defend oneself against trumped-up charges.
.
There also needs to be significant penalties if the MPAA mis-identifies someone as a pirate. I'm thinking a proper penalty for mis-identifying a pirate would be that the MPAA's Internet access be terminated.
Didn't they get the memo?
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Offsite data should be offsite. Period.
It should never be accessible by the day-to-day operational processes, and that includes the routine backups.
He needs another backup step between the local and the offsite backups.
I back up local data to a onsite staging area. Then, in a totally separate process, I back up the staging area to offsite facilities.
I empathize with the guy....
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Nothing to see here, move on.
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How long will it be before facebook users never leave the facebook environment?
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It looks as if my prediction is beginning to happen. Firefox is being left behind by website developers. Which will contribute to its marketshare slide even more if Mozilla doesn't do something drastic.
Or they [sic] greed of their listeners...
Yes, there will always be some piracy, I don't deny that. However...
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When the media industry has put reasonable pricing on content, the amount of piracy of that content has dropped significantly. Most people are honest and want to pay for product.
Piracy appears to flourish when content is not available legally, or when available content is priced unreasonably high.
It really is up to the media industry to find the right price for the content, a price that buyers are willing to pay.
It really is up to the media industry to stop the artificial shortages that are created via exclusive deals and such.
.
Now the music industry is trying to extract more money from its listeners via exclusive and expensive contracts. That increase in music industry greed is triggering an increase in piracy because the content looks over-priced.
That's my thoughts.
You are overthinking it....
If you call asking my friends why they have stopped posting on facebook as much as they used to, and they tell me it was the data harvesting, then, yes, I was over thinking it.
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I agree boredom may play a part, but the main reason I hear is the data harvesting. It could be because my friends are more technical than most, though.
...What starts out as a special and intimate place to share things grows into a big, impersonal, and professional platform ."...
The problem is that facebook participants slowly began to realize that anything and everything they post is harvested by the advertisers to build a profile of you.
...They say that Stuxnet got deployed like this. Awesome hack, Stuxnet....
Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who picked them up, 60 percent plugged the devices into office computers, curious to see what they contained. If the drive or CD case had an official logo, 90 percent were installed....