Look at the ROI and ROE for suing students - they have no assets, major debt, and can easily declare bankruptcy. They also know the economic argument that the probability of being successfully sued is something like 0.00000001 percent per person. Heck, they have more chance of catching HIV from a mosquito...
They also have no incentives to comply either.
After all, since the record labels only pay bands 1 or 2 cents of the $15 for a CD or DVD, it's better to buy the CDs from the band at a performance, or get their t-shirt, and rip the music over the Internet's tubes while the music industry parasites scream in vain.
Yup. The only reason RIAA thinks it should sue them is they're afraid that anyone born after 1980 will just stop buying music from them - and buy it directly from the band itself.
1. People know the actual terms of licenses and what Fair Use is.
2. Many many lawyers and soon-to-be lawyers looking forward to massive p0wnage of RIAA that will give them credit and make a name for them in future work in the law are studying at the universities.
3. Many faculty lawyers looking to publish papers to prove how good they are at p0wning RIAA - publish or perish!
4. Lots of grads willing to donate money to their alum funds to help p0wn RIAA.
It isn't the price alone that hurt the ps3, its the expectations that come with that price and the failure to meet them.
I agree, one of the expectations was that the PS3 launch title games would be not just graphically superior, but fun to play - and yet glitches aboutnd and it's not as fun to play as the PS2 (have one).
In the end, it's the games. Bundling a Blu-Ray movie was less smart than Nintendo bundling a fun series of games with Wii Sports along with their console.
Know your market. Game console buyers care only about one thing - fun games.
That they consider the potential PS3 audience to be a different target audience from Nintendo's Wii.
They shot for luxury buyers - but the reality is that most console purchasers of PS2 were never luxury purchasers.
I know, I get targeted ads designed to appeal to me to buy fancy watches, suits, vacations, etc - all because I like to read the magazine Vanity Fair and run a Family Trust and have saved a lot of money - but they miss the market truth that I have never paid more than $35 for a watch, like most millionaires, and stay in inexpensive hotels when I travel.
Know your actual market - and don't destroy your existing one when you launch a new product.
And for this they want me to ditch my WinXP laptop?
Look, if I want all the effects, I'll install the Mac OS on my Intel motherboard myself, or buy a new machine from Dell with Linux preloaded.
But a few years late and a resource hog does not make me want to get it.
However, as the article points out, you can now port (finally) to a Microsoft OS a lot more easily than before - provided it will run WinVista in the first place.
Since wind is variable, as is solar, they could literally store the energy by compression.
Another way to do a similar thing is to use PV solar cells to generate electricity to split H20 - but watch out for di-hydrogen oxide, that is lethal! - or to have wind turbines do the same thing - and then use fuel cells.
When you participate in gene-folding, or protein-folding (as in the Baker Labs at the University of Washington, which win year after year in best predictions), you know that it's going to useful research that actually helps us understand how things actually work.
Nothing against SETI - I did many packets for them back in the day.
But, practically, it's more fun to do something like cure cancer (UK site) or fold proteins (UW - search for Baker Labs in Biochemistry, my old department) that are used to find cures for malaria, TB, and so on.
Well, I'm not really keen on trash-talking by other players, or spam selling on the trade channels, no.
I can see how it's nice to have voice chat, but having seen what passes for chat in most games, I think I'll pass. I get sick and tired of using Ignore, quite frankly.
Don't see why I should have to pay extra for that.
All the economic incentives are for the non-free alternative, however. So, having a much faster 802.11n depends much more on consumer demand for a freer implementation, such as, for example, the 802.11n, which one hopes would roll out with 802.11g/n dual-spec to deal with the larger quantity of 802.11b/g existing today.
I implemented the b/g protocol myself on my home router, although I encrypted it with the 64 bit key (not the 128 bit key). Most home routers in the surrounding three blocks (the street at the corner of my block is commercially-zoned) are unencrypted, and only about half of the are b/g, with quite a few b in the remainder, and only a few that have switched over to the g protocol alone.
Thus, if we get a phased rollout of g/n hybrids, one could safely install a b/g card in one's laptop and have a very high probability of being able to find an unencrypted wireless source still, until eventually the remaining b standard laptops were encouraged to upgrade their wireless cards - or, if built in, replace their laptops.
Naturally, one expects commercial providers would want to provide all three levels initially, but would probably have a surcharge or higher rate for the n implementation, to pay for both the necessary physical infrastructure upgrades and the higher usage demand for thruput on the n protocol customers.
But with many medium to large cities providing free or base-free (first x hours per month free or via taxes on utilities) wireless service, we may see a slower adoption of the n standard on a free wireless municipal provider level - or with reduced coverage areas - e.g. restricted to downtown and commercial areas on first rollout.
It's all about the Jacksons and Franklins in the end. And industry would love to get us to pony out for WiMAX and kill off the less expensive b/g/n protocols if they could.
Look, I just want a laptop that works. I don't care why. I don't want to have to figure out case sizing, motherboard comparison, which card for graphics.
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I mean, who do the EU think they are, forcing an Ireland-based company like Microsoft to comply with EU laws!
...
Next thing you know they'll fine them - again - for beaucoup Euros
ah, but that's the economic argument.
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Look at the ROI and ROE for suing students - they have no assets, major debt, and can easily declare bankruptcy. They also know the economic argument that the probability of being successfully sued is something like 0.00000001 percent per person. Heck, they have more chance of catching HIV from a mosquito
They also have no incentives to comply either.
After all, since the record labels only pay bands 1 or 2 cents of the $15 for a CD or DVD, it's better to buy the CDs from the band at a performance, or get their t-shirt, and rip the music over the Internet's tubes while the music industry parasites scream in vain.
Yup. The only reason RIAA thinks it should sue them is they're afraid that anyone born after 1980 will just stop buying music from them - and buy it directly from the band itself.
1. People know the actual terms of licenses and what Fair Use is.
2. Many many lawyers and soon-to-be lawyers looking forward to massive p0wnage of RIAA that will give them credit and make a name for them in future work in the law are studying at the universities.
3. Many faculty lawyers looking to publish papers to prove how good they are at p0wning RIAA - publish or perish!
4. Lots of grads willing to donate money to their alum funds to help p0wn RIAA.
5. It's just plain FUN!
Or are you saying that we need to rehold the Scopes Monkey Trials yet again?
Exactly! Look, I drive a Saturn SC2 - if I wanted to buy an SUV, I'd be an SUV guy.
Sony's PS2 is an economy box. Making the PS3 a luxury high-end device was a very very bad idea.
It isn't the price alone that hurt the ps3, its the expectations that come with that price and the failure to meet them.
I agree, one of the expectations was that the PS3 launch title games would be not just graphically superior, but fun to play - and yet glitches aboutnd and it's not as fun to play as the PS2 (have one).
In the end, it's the games. Bundling a Blu-Ray movie was less smart than Nintendo bundling a fun series of games with Wii Sports along with their console.
Know your market. Game console buyers care only about one thing - fun games.
That they consider the potential PS3 audience to be a different target audience from Nintendo's Wii.
They shot for luxury buyers - but the reality is that most console purchasers of PS2 were never luxury purchasers.
I know, I get targeted ads designed to appeal to me to buy fancy watches, suits, vacations, etc - all because I like to read the magazine Vanity Fair and run a Family Trust and have saved a lot of money - but they miss the market truth that I have never paid more than $35 for a watch, like most millionaires, and stay in inexpensive hotels when I travel.
Know your actual market - and don't destroy your existing one when you launch a new product.
And for this they want me to ditch my WinXP laptop?
Look, if I want all the effects, I'll install the Mac OS on my Intel motherboard myself, or buy a new machine from Dell with Linux preloaded.
But a few years late and a resource hog does not make me want to get it.
However, as the article points out, you can now port (finally) to a Microsoft OS a lot more easily than before - provided it will run WinVista in the first place.
And most use Firefox, so I can see why they'd want to drop such a journal.
Time to wake up and smell the 21st century. DRM is not ready for prime time.
Since wind is variable, as is solar, they could literally store the energy by compression.
Another way to do a similar thing is to use PV solar cells to generate electricity to split H20 - but watch out for di-hydrogen oxide, that is lethal! - or to have wind turbines do the same thing - and then use fuel cells.
If done properly, it could be interesting.
I think the Wii probably said "Meanwhile, while you go on about graphics, my expanded player base dwarves yours."
For all my school work in the late 1970's and early 1980's using linked lists? And doubly-linked lists?
I'd like it in silver dollars, please.
While that's nice, the article is about RHEL 5, and not everyone wants to buy from Madtux.
Most of our lab computers (Linux) are from PogoLinux and Gateway.
I'm looking at a nice quad-core AMD laptop that can run RHEL 5 - and if Dell sells it, it's good for me.
Or is this only for traditional "desktops"?
Also, will this run on a PS3?
I bought the Wii, xBox, and GameCube. My son bought a PS2 and some of the older consoles himself.
We both use them - mostly the Wii nowadays, but sometimes the PS2 or xBox.
Exactly. The problem is that SETI is a long shot.
When you participate in gene-folding, or protein-folding (as in the Baker Labs at the University of Washington, which win year after year in best predictions), you know that it's going to useful research that actually helps us understand how things actually work.
Nothing against SETI - I did many packets for them back in the day.
But, practically, it's more fun to do something like cure cancer (UK site) or fold proteins (UW - search for Baker Labs in Biochemistry, my old department) that are used to find cures for malaria, TB, and so on.
Well, I'm not really keen on trash-talking by other players, or spam selling on the trade channels, no.
I can see how it's nice to have voice chat, but having seen what passes for chat in most games, I think I'll pass. I get sick and tired of using Ignore, quite frankly.
Don't see why I should have to pay extra for that.
She has a Mac. And, as a result, I don't get late night tech support calls.
... or someone really lonely ...
Only someone insane would have their mom get a Win machine
All the economic incentives are for the non-free alternative, however. So, having a much faster 802.11n depends much more on consumer demand for a freer implementation, such as, for example, the 802.11n, which one hopes would roll out with 802.11g/n dual-spec to deal with the larger quantity of 802.11b/g existing today.
I implemented the b/g protocol myself on my home router, although I encrypted it with the 64 bit key (not the 128 bit key). Most home routers in the surrounding three blocks (the street at the corner of my block is commercially-zoned) are unencrypted, and only about half of the are b/g, with quite a few b in the remainder, and only a few that have switched over to the g protocol alone.
Thus, if we get a phased rollout of g/n hybrids, one could safely install a b/g card in one's laptop and have a very high probability of being able to find an unencrypted wireless source still, until eventually the remaining b standard laptops were encouraged to upgrade their wireless cards - or, if built in, replace their laptops.
Naturally, one expects commercial providers would want to provide all three levels initially, but would probably have a surcharge or higher rate for the n implementation, to pay for both the necessary physical infrastructure upgrades and the higher usage demand for thruput on the n protocol customers.
But with many medium to large cities providing free or base-free (first x hours per month free or via taxes on utilities) wireless service, we may see a slower adoption of the n standard on a free wireless municipal provider level - or with reduced coverage areas - e.g. restricted to downtown and commercial areas on first rollout.
It's all about the Jacksons and Franklins in the end. And industry would love to get us to pony out for WiMAX and kill off the less expensive b/g/n protocols if they could.
which was an attempt to force us to not be able to get "free" wireless, I'm all in favor of 200 GB/s.
But, an important question, will this interfere with my ability to listen to CIA broadcasts on my fillings?
Wow! So teens can curse me out even more - and I get to pay for it?
... because you know they'll jack their parents account names.
Just think, I'm subsidizing more trash talk in games
Tell that to the games - they all show up Japan-only.
Won't get none if you can't play none.
Basically, why do you need Dell?
Because, like most consumers, I'm lazy.
Look, I just want a laptop that works. I don't care why. I don't want to have to figure out case sizing, motherboard comparison, which card for graphics.
I just want it to work.
So it wasn't just me that read the Edgar Rice Burroughs series, then?
I've actually got three first edition ERB books on top of one of my bookshelves.
we are supposed to pay even more for Live?
Nuh uh.
Too much fluff, not enough there.