Some number of these were sold to people that have an intention to unlock and where we don't know precisely how many people are doing that, our current guess is there is probably 250,000 of the 1.4 million that we sold where people had bought them with the intention of doing that.
(Total units sold) less (contracts with AT&T) != (number sold with intent to unlock).
Missing from this oversimplified calculation are iPhones sold but not yet registered with AT&T. This would include (and is potentially a figure large enough to throw off their estimate) iPhones sold to non-registered resellers.
Depends on what country they are in... but the cost of shipping the books to China/India/etc would likely be prohibitive. This is where the scanning services can sometimes be more cost-effective.
Or, you could keep tape flags in your wallet (for me, much more useful than a condom:)) and mark pages for scanning later. I do this if I note a particularly interesting magazine article or passage from a book that I want to keep on file. It actually makes me feel like the money I paid for a cheap flatbed scanner was worthwhile.
That just points towards what at value you assess the privacy of your communications, I think you could negotiate a much better price than that. Channel Shatner here: you're bargaining like a wimp or namby-pamby.
Now, if I had bad intent, I'd possibly "clean up my act" and provide my correspondence to the government for the low price of $10k per month.
Think of it as insurance, Mr. G-man. For one low price you don't have to worry about me committing any crimes or even talking about committing crimes, and you don't even have to mess with a FISA court or probable cause.
If this project is really "open", can I have my own libarary scanned? How much does it cost?
There are plenty of document scanning services around, I know for low-volume (less than 100k pages) I've priced them out at about $0.08 per page at high resolution. I'm not sure what kind of surcharge you'd pay for them not being able to batch-feed (since you're talking about books).
Or, do what I did and rent a good scanner and pay a couple high school kids a fair wage to do it. Or, offer them piece rate of a nickel a page to get them working efficiently, YMMV with the work ethic of local kids. They can easily do 5 pages a minute working together, or 300 pages an hour. If you pay them $7.50 an hour each, that works out to $0.05 per page plus the cost of your rental, which cost me $100 per weekend and $0.005 per copy. Cost per copy worked out to about $0.05 when I had 4 kids each working 12 hours over a weekend (2 workers x 4 6-hour shifts). If I had rented a second scanner, my cost per copy would have gone down, but I'd have needed two more workers which I wasn't able to do.
Note also that the slowest throughput I got was 300 pp an hour; typical was 500. If you do the math for 300 pp/hr (which I did before I put the project together), you'll see that the maximum cost would have been $0.07 per page.
which would effectively be good if you wanted to design a system that neighbors could not catch what you're watching on their TV.
What I want to know is how you are watching something on your neighbor's TV. Reminds me to keep my blinds closed -- if you can watch my TV from your house, I'm scared to think of what else you've seen.
Then again, if you'd seen anything worth worrying about, you're probably still recovering from the horror. I am my own best defense against peeping toms.
Essentially, the MPAA said "we will give you anything if you rat these people out and obtain evidence for us", yet "didn't know" he was doing it illegally? Please, just shows how desperate they can be and what kind of morale these people have.
Please, RTFA.
Anderson approached them, saying pretty much, "I can get you this info, how much is it worth to you?"
Then, when they met, he told them that he had "an informant" who had access to the info. Two degrees of separation? There's plausible deniability right there. Do I believe they knew the info was obtained illegally? No. Do I believe they made any kind of effort to find out? No as well. But it doesn't really matter, since they can plausibly deny that they had knowledge of how the info was obtained.
Actually, any listed company has only one primary responsibility, which is investor return. Pursuing job security or customer service where those conflict with investor return is not only unethical, it's illegal.
False, completely false.
The obligation of the company to its stockholders is expressed in its mission statement. Yes, profit-seeking is typically included as one of the items on the mission statement, however other goals can be, and usually are, included.
The officers of a listed company are obligated to pursue the mission statement goals to the best of their abilities, but in no way will they face prosecution for making decisions that do not prioritize profit unless those decisions are otherwise illegal.
You may have confused civil law with criminal law -- it is possible for the board of a public company to face a civil tort suit for decisions that run counter to the mission statement of a company.
It's a common misperception here on slashdot that 'teh evil corporashuns' must be evil due to law. That is incorrect, and is too permissive to those that make bad decisions in corporate governance and direction.
Charging first in a knifefight is rarely a good idea, shooting first in a gunfight is.
Sure, but charging knife-first into a gunfight is a very bad idea.
Unfortunately, that's what a lot of the populace is doing, wrt: technological crime.
And in the US at least, we're not yet sure if we want the government to face down the guns with knives, with guns of their own, or even allow them nukes. If only the police forces had good "aim".
Sorry to stretch the metaphor so far, but I think it works.
Look, it's simple: either you believe in the free market, in which case deregulation is a good thing as it will open up the market that regulation is currently closing off, or you believe in fascism. It's that simple.
Ah yes, the good old false dichotomy, tool of the intellectually challenged.
Regulated market != fascism, Mr. AC. Try to learn what terms mean before you use them in sentences.
Furthermore, when the regulated market actually increases competition, you could say that it decreases any tendency towards fascism.
The "billions of dollars" that people like to claim the US government "gave" to the telcos came mostly in the form of loosened regulations that allowed them to raise prices, as well as in the form of tax breaks.
No. It came in the form of easements, of government purchase of private land then granted to the telcos, and of the award of cash grants.
Perhaps you should bother getting an education before you spout your nonsensical high-school free-market ideology -- and before you comment on a particular subject, why not bother to actually have done some background research so you know what you're talking about?
All the bugs will go back to San Francisco. But instead of flying, a Mythbusters employee is having to drive the bugs back. Airlines, it seems, don't like cockroaches on a plane.
I don't know about the airlines, but I'd always assumed coach class was named so as a contraction of cockroach, since flying coach makes me feel like a cockroach.
Both Novel and RedHat are publicly traded companies, which means by law they hold their investor's interests above all else.
False. Completely false, but often misconstrued as the truth wrt public companies.
The truth is that companies must adhere to their mission statements or they face the possibility of a civil tort.
Yes, most mission statements include maximization of profit or somesuch, but it's mistaken (very mistaken) to believe that public companies can only take actions that are intended to maximize shareholder profits.
Evolution is a pretty slow process... I guess 3000 years or so isn't quite long enough to breed out the religious nutjobs.
Heh. Who is more likely to have more offspring, the religious nutjobs or the atheist/agnostics?
I hate to break it to you, but at least in the US, ideas are evolving in the other direction. 3000 years hasn't benn long enough to breed out the secular.
I'd add that in Iraq, nobody's winning. The insurgents are making trouble, but they aren't really getting what they want.
I disagree; they are winning because the will of the American people to stay there is shrinking. In asymmetric warfare, they don't need to "win" -- they just need to not lose until the conventional forces are withdrawn.
However the point still stands that as people are 'forced' to upgrade, many more will choose HD sets, thus prices will fall.
Just a note, a big reason for the unpopularity of CRT HD sets is the size, from my anecdotal experience. It's just a real pain to deal with a set that is over 32" deep (non-standard cabinet required, etc). Never mind needing to pay for installation or have a couple friends with strong backs help out.
At this point, armed militias are worthless against the power of the US Army and its remaining allies.
Tell that to the Vietnamese and the Iraqis.
Asymmetric warfare works.
Also note that the US armed forces attacking US civilians in an unpopular "war" would never happen. Either the US gov would intervene far before it got to any kind of scale, and spin it so that there was popular support for their actions (or do it covertly), or they'd have to accomodate the "rebels" in some fashion.
Too many political careers would be on the line for using the US armed forces against a popular movement.
and you think that the most important thing on people's minds is freaking analog vs digital TV?
No, not the most important. I think it's the thing most likely of those to be on the forefront of their mind.
I may be a cynic, but all those things you mentioned barely affect people's daily lives, barely inconveniences them. Can't watch their TV, though, and they'd be up in arms. Sorry, but that's the sad state of affairs now.
The people demanded Congressional action on the issue of steroids in baseball, let's face facts and realize that the issues voters care about the most are the ones that have to do with their entertainment.
But, Digital TV != HDTV. These are two different standards. Digital TV is the same resolution as analog tv, just transmitted in the digital form. There will still be tube tv's on the shelves at Best Buy, just not ones with analog tuners.
True. But isn't it likely that many, many people will figure that if they need to buy a new TV anyway, they might as well upgrade to HD?
Though CRTs will still be available, I'm willing to bet that share of HDTVs goes up... way up. Especially since we've already seen LCDs come down in price.
Now excuse me while I load a program from cassette to my PET2001, I'm waiting for 64-core processors to come down in price when 256-core processors enter the market big-time.
Seriously, though --
Ah, yes! The old "compact disc" strategy...
Not being an early adopter of consumer electronics works great for me. I didn't pay $2000 for a CD player in the mid-80s. I paid $120 for one in 1989. Similarly, I won't pay $2000 for a big HDTV now... I expect to pay more like $600 for one in a few years.
Forced conversion would increase demand with unchanged supply
Since when would supply be unchanged? You're telling me that Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, etc won't be ramping up production and shipment to the US as the deadline approaches? Huh. I'm glad you're not doing any business planning. Every consumer electronics price analyst I've seen comment on TV prices thinks that prices will drop on high-end sets as a result of the rollout, when it happens. Economies of scale apply here. Furthermore, since the number of suppliers of high-end electronics is fairly low, it's likely that a price war would happen, resulting in much lower prices for the savvy buyer.
So you're in for waiting for something like 6-7 years for this effect to become reality. I suggest you just buy something now if you need it at all.
I thought it rather obvious from my post that I don't view a huge-screen HDTV as a necessity. I worry for the future of the US if people DO see it as a necessity.
My point was that by delaying the rollout because of low penetration of digital-ready sets, they are delaying the purchase of a digital-ready set by at least one person (me); this keeps penetration low... etc.
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Missing from this oversimplified calculation are iPhones sold but not yet registered with AT&T. This would include (and is potentially a figure large enough to throw off their estimate) iPhones sold to non-registered resellers.
Just goes to show that MS is fully behind the concept of web-based applications.
I think this was a scheduling SNAFU is all; this was supposed to happen in 2017, when MSOffice 12, the web-based version, is released.
Excuse me while I go find a goatse link to get that image un-etched from my brain.
Or, you could keep tape flags in your wallet (for me, much more useful than a condom
That just points towards what at value you assess the privacy of your communications, I think you could negotiate a much better price than that. Channel Shatner here: you're bargaining like a wimp or namby-pamby.
Now, if I had bad intent, I'd possibly "clean up my act" and provide my correspondence to the government for the low price of $10k per month.
Think of it as insurance, Mr. G-man. For one low price you don't have to worry about me committing any crimes or even talking about committing crimes, and you don't even have to mess with a FISA court or probable cause.
Or, do what I did and rent a good scanner and pay a couple high school kids a fair wage to do it. Or, offer them piece rate of a nickel a page to get them working efficiently, YMMV with the work ethic of local kids. They can easily do 5 pages a minute working together, or 300 pages an hour. If you pay them $7.50 an hour each, that works out to $0.05 per page plus the cost of your rental, which cost me $100 per weekend and $0.005 per copy. Cost per copy worked out to about $0.05 when I had 4 kids each working 12 hours over a weekend (2 workers x 4 6-hour shifts). If I had rented a second scanner, my cost per copy would have gone down, but I'd have needed two more workers which I wasn't able to do.
Note also that the slowest throughput I got was 300 pp an hour; typical was 500. If you do the math for 300 pp/hr (which I did before I put the project together), you'll see that the maximum cost would have been $0.07 per page.
Then again, if you'd seen anything worth worrying about, you're probably still recovering from the horror. I am my own best defense against peeping toms.
Anderson approached them, saying pretty much, "I can get you this info, how much is it worth to you?"
Then, when they met, he told them that he had "an informant" who had access to the info. Two degrees of separation? There's plausible deniability right there. Do I believe they knew the info was obtained illegally? No. Do I believe they made any kind of effort to find out? No as well. But it doesn't really matter, since they can plausibly deny that they had knowledge of how the info was obtained.
The obligation of the company to its stockholders is expressed in its mission statement. Yes, profit-seeking is typically included as one of the items on the mission statement, however other goals can be, and usually are, included.
The officers of a listed company are obligated to pursue the mission statement goals to the best of their abilities, but in no way will they face prosecution for making decisions that do not prioritize profit unless those decisions are otherwise illegal.
You may have confused civil law with criminal law -- it is possible for the board of a public company to face a civil tort suit for decisions that run counter to the mission statement of a company.
It's a common misperception here on slashdot that 'teh evil corporashuns' must be evil due to law. That is incorrect, and is too permissive to those that make bad decisions in corporate governance and direction.
Unfortunately, that's what a lot of the populace is doing, wrt: technological crime.
And in the US at least, we're not yet sure if we want the government to face down the guns with knives, with guns of their own, or even allow them nukes. If only the police forces had good "aim".
Sorry to stretch the metaphor so far, but I think it works.
Regulated market != fascism, Mr. AC. Try to learn what terms mean before you use them in sentences.
Furthermore, when the regulated market actually increases competition, you could say that it decreases any tendency towards fascism.
No. It came in the form of easements, of government purchase of private land then granted to the telcos, and of the award of cash grants.
Perhaps you should bother getting an education before you spout your nonsensical high-school free-market ideology -- and before you comment on a particular subject, why not bother to actually have done some background research so you know what you're talking about?
BTW, nice troll.
The truth is that companies must adhere to their mission statements or they face the possibility of a civil tort.
Yes, most mission statements include maximization of profit or somesuch, but it's mistaken (very mistaken) to believe that public companies can only take actions that are intended to maximize shareholder profits.
I hate to break it to you, but at least in the US, ideas are evolving in the other direction. 3000 years hasn't benn long enough to breed out the secular.
So, it's got to be some kind of joke, or as inapt then as it is now.
Yes, yes, I know...
However the point still stands that as people are 'forced' to upgrade, many more will choose HD sets, thus prices will fall.
Just a note, a big reason for the unpopularity of CRT HD sets is the size, from my anecdotal experience. It's just a real pain to deal with a set that is over 32" deep (non-standard cabinet required, etc). Never mind needing to pay for installation or have a couple friends with strong backs help out.
Asymmetric warfare works.
Also note that the US armed forces attacking US civilians in an unpopular "war" would never happen. Either the US gov would intervene far before it got to any kind of scale, and spin it so that there was popular support for their actions (or do it covertly), or they'd have to accomodate the "rebels" in some fashion.
Too many political careers would be on the line for using the US armed forces against a popular movement.
Boy, your reading comprehension really needs some work.
Most likely to cause civil unrest != most important.
Furthermore, what is most likely to upset people has nothing at all to do with what I consider to be most important.
I did not write what you have chosen to interpret. If you're trying to troll, you could use a little more practice.
If you're not trying to troll, then you're just plain dense, and I pity you.
I may be a cynic, but all those things you mentioned barely affect people's daily lives, barely inconveniences them. Can't watch their TV, though, and they'd be up in arms. Sorry, but that's the sad state of affairs now.
The people demanded Congressional action on the issue of steroids in baseball, let's face facts and realize that the issues voters care about the most are the ones that have to do with their entertainment.
Though CRTs will still be available, I'm willing to bet that share of HDTVs goes up... way up. Especially since we've already seen LCDs come down in price.
Now excuse me while I load a program from cassette to my PET2001, I'm waiting for 64-core processors to come down in price when 256-core processors enter the market big-time.
Seriously, though --Not being an early adopter of consumer electronics works great for me. I didn't pay $2000 for a CD player in the mid-80s. I paid $120 for one in 1989. Similarly, I won't pay $2000 for a big HDTV now... I expect to pay more like $600 for one in a few years.
I thought it rather obvious from my post that I don't view a huge-screen HDTV as a necessity. I worry for the future of the US if people DO see it as a necessity.
My point was that by delaying the rollout because of low penetration of digital-ready sets, they are delaying the purchase of a digital-ready set by at least one person (me); this keeps penetration low... etc.
Now I'm starting to wonder as well. My question is, do the house members expect the end-of-the-world-by-Mayan-reckoning or the Rapture?