the problem is promotion, anyone can put thier songs on the web and put up a paypal link to pay for them and get a code to download them. Anyone can get thier tunes added to iTunes for a reasonable fee. None of that helps if noone outside of a few locals who have seen you in a pub gig knows they want your music. You need to get a LOT of sales to get enough money to give up your day job and that means you need promotion on major radio stations.
The way for an artist to make big money in the music buisness is to sign on with a record company, take thier promotion and then stay popular for long enough to get out of the "abusive" initial contract. After that they can either break out on thier own or get a much better contract with a record label. It is the staying popular that is the difficult bit, one hit wonders will never reach that point.
the problem is that if you implement the same algorithm and follow the same idioms you can end up with code that looks remarkablly similar.
that is the thing with big corporate bullies, they don't need a case that is winable on merits just one that is hard enough to defend against that most people will settle.
I guess it's kind of like microsoft with windows, they have the virtual monopoly so the only way to increase sales is to convert pirates into legitimate customers. Of course by doing that you risk driving them away completely.
afaict for a public company going from the growth phase to the income phase is very painfull and so many will push to extend the growth phase as long as possible even if doing so is risky.
btw do you know of any free editors comparable to paint shop pro 4? I found it a very good editor for the sort of editing that needs more than mspaint but isn't really photo orientated. However it doesn't seem to work properly under wine and I mostly use linux on the desktop now so i'm looking for something comparable.
not in your web browser because most web browsers and monitors don't support it anyway.
the point of higher color depths is a bit like the point of higher bits per sample in audio, for presentation you don't really need more than what connsumer level stuff uses at the moment but having those extra bits means you lose far less to rounding errors and can intensify the quiet/low contrast bits without brining thier color depths down to unacceptable levels.
for the web I would say no. In a limited resoloution output medium you can pack in far more detail if you work with the limitations of your medium (bitmap) than if you pretend they don't exist (vector)
You don't pay them for anything directly but your internet provider does on your behalf. You don't make it clear if they take off at the wires level or the ADSL backhaul level but either way your local phone provider is getting paid and has the ability to cause "accidental" breaks in your service.
Providers that take off at the adsl backhaul level also sometimes have to deal with often very high prices for bandwidth to you the customer (this is certainly the case with BT over here in the UK) forcing them to either implement traffic caps or other anti heavy traffic measures. Providers that take off at the wires level need to build a huge customer base quickly to cover the costs of colocating thier equipment in all the telephone exchanges.
I'm not in the US but i beleive there is a loophole over there where if telcos switch to fiber they don't have to offer unbundled services anymore. This is I believe why verizon is rolling out FIOS.
I use sipgate with a grandstream handytone 486 and an ordinary cordless phone set, it seems to work fine most of the time (i've probablly had more dowtime due to cable modem problems than due to sipgate) and I can easilly fall back to PSTN with one button press on the phone (actually right now I'm using PSTN for most outgoing calls because when I moved into this place and signed up with virgin media they threw in a years free trial of thier talk unlimited plan with my phone/TV/broadband package).
but they (or at least the branch of them I use, I belive they have a german branch too) are in the UK so maybe not a very suitable choice for you. Also if you register from outside of the UK they only give you crappy 0845 or 0870 numbers (originally local rate and national rate from anywhere in the uk but now far more expensive to call than ordinary geographic numbers)
Many sip providers offer free signup, free incoming calls and free calls to freephone numbers in thier home country as well as free calls within thier network so you can try a few out before spending money with them.
The advantage of something like asterisk is you can mix as many sip providers as you want, so you can have incoming numbers in all countries where you have regular contacts and can choose whatever provider happens to be cheapest at the time for your outgoing calls.
One way I can think of to make money would be to offer SIP access to your skype account for a fee. This would allow security paranoid corporations to connect skype to thier PBX while more easilly banning it's use for internal purposes.
the linux client was seperately developed presumablly to try and draw in well connected computer geeks, I doubt adding adverts to it (or indeed adding anything beyond basic text and voice) is a priority
I wonder if it would be feasible to run skype in a jail with it's audio redirected, it's display routed to a dummy xserver and the skype API controlling it.
Afaict the time warner shareholders lost big time, they gave away over half of their equity in time warner in exchange for just under half of AOL which was a badly inflated stock at the time and it's real value as a dialup provider on the way out was far less than time warners.
the thing is last mile communication service is a natural monopoly, some areas have a duopoloy for historical reasons and some have forced unbundling at various levels. Often there is little if any choice and even where there is choice of some kind you often find that the monopolist has some way to make your life a misery (for example I have a friend here in the UK who has been waiting months for BT to install a phone line, sure once he gets that line he can choose who to buy his calls and internet from but he has to get the thing first).
Most people never upgraded every couple of years anyway, but we are rapidly getting to the point where the typical PC uses(web/music/video/email/images) can be run well on the most modest a machines whether they have Linux,Windows, or OSX on them. That will have a bigger affect on sales than any environmental concerns. People have been saying this for years but in my experiance it hasn't held out for a few reasons.
1: software bloat is ever increasing and shows no real sign of stopping. Sure you can stick with old software to a point but there are issues with security patches and with remote content getting heavier (the ajax revoloution) or forced upgrades (quite common with network dependent software) or they get thier machine infested with spyware and have lost the original disks/keys for all thier suitable software (this is especially an issue now that product activation has become so common) and decide to buy a new machine that can handle modern software. 2: it's not in computer stores interests to actually sell thier bargin basement machines, they are likely to be the lowest margin machines in the shop so they tend to push people to buy more than they actually need. 3: new apps come along, a decade ago people would have laughed if you had mentioned video editing on a home PC. 4: since we have become CPU rich and bandwidth poor lots of CPU power is invested into compression, the latest example being video (compare say divx to mpeg 2). Online HDTV will probablly take this to new heights.
tritium isn't that bad really, sure people mention the radioactivity bogyman but it is a pretty weak beta emmitter and being such a common element organisms don't tend to concentrate it.
i'd imagine a lot of the chemicals that end up in consumer products while not radioactive are considerablly more dangerous to living things.
tritium is a weak beta emmitter and because hydrogen is so common you need a lot of it before a significant ammount of the hydrogen compounds in you body start to contain it.
Generally the really nasty stuff from a biological point of view is the rare elements that the body concentrates.
going from vinyl to digital media is not hard, a moderate turntable, a preamp (or a mixer or hifi with a preamp built in) and a computer with a sound card are all you really need.
going back from digital media to vinyl is harder because of the cost of the cutting machine and other problems (iirc they have a tendancy to pick up ambiant noise when cutting) but how many people really want to do that anyway? a few who like scratchplay maybe but that's it.
did MS ever create thier own protocol that was suitable for large routed networks (afaict TCP/IP on small lans is mostly a side affect of the internet).
the difference is with FedEx you pay per package and expect a high quality of service for that payment. With a dorm network you get provided service primerally for educational reasons and other use while allowed but it is not a priority.
what I do think is wrong though is denying students the ability to purchase internet service from elsewhere if they aren't happy with the uni's freeby.
the problem is that debian is understandablly hardline on it's policy for the security repositry and the main repositry can only be updated through point releases which are infrequent as they are a lot of work (new cd images, LOTs and LOTs of testing). This was reported too late to make it into the last point release before the change happened.
the actual problem is that DST settings change infrequently enough that they aren't updated through any kind of dedicated network means but at short enough notice (iirc it was 5 months this time) that they require software vendors to either break thier usual release procedures or end up with the wrong time.
I have to say I think debian did the right thing, mozilla no longer allowed use of thier name under terms compatible with debians polcies so debian removed it (btw do you have any evidence that the name iceweasel was deliberately meant to be insulting?
unlike all the other spineless distros even those supposedly on the side of free software who bent over for mozilla and included the decidedly non free icons.
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the problem is promotion, anyone can put thier songs on the web and put up a paypal link to pay for them and get a code to download them. Anyone can get thier tunes added to iTunes for a reasonable fee. None of that helps if noone outside of a few locals who have seen you in a pub gig knows they want your music. You need to get a LOT of sales to get enough money to give up your day job and that means you need promotion on major radio stations.
The way for an artist to make big money in the music buisness is to sign on with a record company, take thier promotion and then stay popular for long enough to get out of the "abusive" initial contract. After that they can either break out on thier own or get a much better contract with a record label. It is the staying popular that is the difficult bit, one hit wonders will never reach that point.
won't she lose everything she owns in the process of the bankrupcy?
the problem is that if you implement the same algorithm and follow the same idioms you can end up with code that looks remarkablly similar.
that is the thing with big corporate bullies, they don't need a case that is winable on merits just one that is hard enough to defend against that most people will settle.
I guess it's kind of like microsoft with windows, they have the virtual monopoly so the only way to increase sales is to convert pirates into legitimate customers. Of course by doing that you risk driving them away completely.
afaict for a public company going from the growth phase to the income phase is very painfull and so many will push to extend the growth phase as long as possible even if doing so is risky.
btw do you know of any free editors comparable to paint shop pro 4? I found it a very good editor for the sort of editing that needs more than mspaint but isn't really photo orientated. However it doesn't seem to work properly under wine and I mostly use linux on the desktop now so i'm looking for something comparable.
not in your web browser because most web browsers and monitors don't support it anyway.
the point of higher color depths is a bit like the point of higher bits per sample in audio, for presentation you don't really need more than what connsumer level stuff uses at the moment but having those extra bits means you lose far less to rounding errors and can intensify the quiet/low contrast bits without brining thier color depths down to unacceptable levels.
depends what the illustration is for.
for the web I would say no. In a limited resoloution output medium you can pack in far more detail if you work with the limitations of your medium (bitmap) than if you pretend they don't exist (vector)
he probablly tried to sell it to a website in a different state. Thats probablly enough justification for the FBI to get involved if they want to.
You don't pay them for anything directly but your internet provider does on your behalf. You don't make it clear if they take off at the wires level or the ADSL backhaul level but either way your local phone provider is getting paid and has the ability to cause "accidental" breaks in your service.
Providers that take off at the adsl backhaul level also sometimes have to deal with often very high prices for bandwidth to you the customer (this is certainly the case with BT over here in the UK) forcing them to either implement traffic caps or other anti heavy traffic measures. Providers that take off at the wires level need to build a huge customer base quickly to cover the costs of colocating thier equipment in all the telephone exchanges.
I'm not in the US but i beleive there is a loophole over there where if telcos switch to fiber they don't have to offer unbundled services anymore. This is I believe why verizon is rolling out FIOS.
I use sipgate with a grandstream handytone 486 and an ordinary cordless phone set, it seems to work fine most of the time (i've probablly had more dowtime due to cable modem problems than due to sipgate) and I can easilly fall back to PSTN with one button press on the phone (actually right now I'm using PSTN for most outgoing calls because when I moved into this place and signed up with virgin media they threw in a years free trial of thier talk unlimited plan with my phone/TV/broadband package).
but they (or at least the branch of them I use, I belive they have a german branch too) are in the UK so maybe not a very suitable choice for you. Also if you register from outside of the UK they only give you crappy 0845 or 0870 numbers (originally local rate and national rate from anywhere in the uk but now far more expensive to call than ordinary geographic numbers)
Many sip providers offer free signup, free incoming calls and free calls to freephone numbers in thier home country as well as free calls within thier network so you can try a few out before spending money with them.
The advantage of something like asterisk is you can mix as many sip providers as you want, so you can have incoming numbers in all countries where you have regular contacts and can choose whatever provider happens to be cheapest at the time for your outgoing calls.
One way I can think of to make money would be to offer SIP access to your skype account for a fee. This would allow security paranoid corporations to connect skype to thier PBX while more easilly banning it's use for internal purposes.
the linux client was seperately developed presumablly to try and draw in well connected computer geeks, I doubt adding adverts to it (or indeed adding anything beyond basic text and voice) is a priority
I wonder if it would be feasible to run skype in a jail with it's audio redirected, it's display routed to a dummy xserver and the skype API controlling it.
Afaict the time warner shareholders lost big time, they gave away over half of their equity in time warner in exchange for just under half of AOL which was a badly inflated stock at the time and it's real value as a dialup provider on the way out was far less than time warners.
the thing is last mile communication service is a natural monopoly, some areas have a duopoloy for historical reasons and some have forced unbundling at various levels. Often there is little if any choice and even where there is choice of some kind you often find that the monopolist has some way to make your life a misery (for example I have a friend here in the UK who has been waiting months for BT to install a phone line, sure once he gets that line he can choose who to buy his calls and internet from but he has to get the thing first).
Most people never upgraded every couple of years anyway, but we are rapidly getting to the point where the typical PC uses(web/music/video/email/images) can be run well on the most modest a machines whether they have Linux,Windows, or OSX on them. That will have a bigger affect on sales than any environmental concerns.
People have been saying this for years but in my experiance it hasn't held out for a few reasons.
1: software bloat is ever increasing and shows no real sign of stopping. Sure you can stick with old software to a point but there are issues with security patches and with remote content getting heavier (the ajax revoloution) or forced upgrades (quite common with network dependent software) or they get thier machine infested with spyware and have lost the original disks/keys for all thier suitable software (this is especially an issue now that product activation has become so common) and decide to buy a new machine that can handle modern software.
2: it's not in computer stores interests to actually sell thier bargin basement machines, they are likely to be the lowest margin machines in the shop so they tend to push people to buy more than they actually need.
3: new apps come along, a decade ago people would have laughed if you had mentioned video editing on a home PC.
4: since we have become CPU rich and bandwidth poor lots of CPU power is invested into compression, the latest example being video (compare say divx to mpeg 2). Online HDTV will probablly take this to new heights.
tritium isn't that bad really, sure people mention the radioactivity bogyman but it is a pretty weak beta emmitter and being such a common element organisms don't tend to concentrate it.
i'd imagine a lot of the chemicals that end up in consumer products while not radioactive are considerablly more dangerous to living things.
tritium is a weak beta emmitter and because hydrogen is so common you need a lot of it before a significant ammount of the hydrogen compounds in you body start to contain it.
Generally the really nasty stuff from a biological point of view is the rare elements that the body concentrates.
going from vinyl to digital media is not hard, a moderate turntable, a preamp (or a mixer or hifi with a preamp built in) and a computer with a sound card are all you really need.
going back from digital media to vinyl is harder because of the cost of the cutting machine and other problems (iirc they have a tendancy to pick up ambiant noise when cutting) but how many people really want to do that anyway? a few who like scratchplay maybe but that's it.
Right now it seems £1 is marginally over $2, sure the USD has slid but not by an insane ammount.
did MS ever create thier own protocol that was suitable for large routed networks (afaict TCP/IP on small lans is mostly a side affect of the internet).
the difference is with FedEx you pay per package and expect a high quality of service for that payment. With a dorm network you get provided service primerally for educational reasons and other use while allowed but it is not a priority.
what I do think is wrong though is denying students the ability to purchase internet service from elsewhere if they aren't happy with the uni's freeby.
the problem is that debian is understandablly hardline on it's policy for the security repositry and the main repositry can only be updated through point releases which are infrequent as they are a lot of work (new cd images, LOTs and LOTs of testing). This was reported too late to make it into the last point release before the change happened.
the actual problem is that DST settings change infrequently enough that they aren't updated through any kind of dedicated network means but at short enough notice (iirc it was 5 months this time) that they require software vendors to either break thier usual release procedures or end up with the wrong time.
I have to say I think debian did the right thing, mozilla no longer allowed use of thier name under terms compatible with debians polcies so debian removed it (btw do you have any evidence that the name iceweasel was deliberately meant to be insulting?
unlike all the other spineless distros even those supposedly on the side of free software who bent over for mozilla and included the decidedly non free icons.