If that where right 100% of the time then where is the competition for microsoft?
Your argument only works if the monopolyst is stupid enought to raise price enought to justify the entry of a competitor. Don't forget that any new competition need to make massive investment to join any existing market. The potential profits must justify this. If microsoft where to sell every copy of windows at 2000$ then there would be a lot better chance of a competitor entering the market.
But it's not the case. Usualy copy's of windows cost less then a 100$ to the customer and conviently comes with a new pc just like a processor.
And would that be so bad? In my grand parents time, the musician were not dedicated, they didn't play for a living. For them the music was more fun then profits. Was it so bad ?
Your wrong. While IE is EOL on mac Office is not neither is messenger. media player as been replace with a codec pack however.
Microsoft has not abandonned the mac platform, it as just ignored it greatly.
Then why the heck do i have to suffer fbi warning, and unskippable commercials on a bought dvd movie? pirates don't have to suffer that.
that's why it's called bullshit
Was it really such a huge step up considering that it's main competitors at the time where os/2 and mac os 7.5 ?
Really windows95 was lacking in stability and usability compared with both these other os's the only things it was not lacking where apps and hype.
I'm strongly in favor of a levy on anything that can be used to play downloadable music if and only if the levy garantee that there will never be any trial of p2p downloader or uploader in this contry and that musician receive there due. I realise that it's atall order but in my mind anything less is a travesty.
yes it's called an external firewall, packet filtering and a proxy. Seriously basic network security is about blocking what you don't want/need and allowing what you do. I hope the NSA and all are aware of that fact.
I'm telling you with a strait face: i'm not going to be pissed off and wanting these people stopped.
Think about it. What is your objective here? Is it selling your 5000 cd's? if so your in the red and severly lacking foresight. Your objective is not selling the first 5000 it's selling the next album and the next and the next... And to do this people have to buy the cd. To make people buy the cd you have to advertise. P2P Is a way to advertise your talent, so it dosen't return money since the music is distributed for free big deal. The magic of cd is this, once you have paid for the design of your initial 5000 every other run is only costing you another 5000$ but is returning a lot more in profit. So like everything else, you have to find the break eaven line. Now cd's like books are magical, they can stay a long time on the shelves before being bought off. Meaning over time you will make money. But only if people know your talent. When they do you can make money other thing beside the music.
All good points but you fail to consider harware maintenance. It's almost impossible to buy a new machine now that has windows 98 drivers.The longer you keep windows 98 the harder it will be to maintain your computers.
There is always virtualisation however.
And gues what: it's what happened, Most install of windows XP where throught oem install. Excep in corporate places where frankly everything was better than windows 98. The compagnies running 2k waited a lot of time before upgrading.
Now however xp is good. It's a bit harder to justify an upgrate to vista.
Give it time. EMI said that they are going to sell drm less music on itune. Movie will most likely follow once the mpaa goes to the same conclusion that the RIAA came to... some time in the next five years
Unfortunatly if the RIAA falls then you can bet the labels are going to be hard at work building RIAA version 2. If it worked once it can work twice. They will never expose themselve to public ire if they can help it.
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If Viacom win's then there will be no more hope for media content archive like youtube or flicker in the US.
Why wait ten years, MSN music store did it this year. The DRM nightmare is alive and well. It's not going away without the content you paid for.
If that where right 100% of the time then where is the competition for microsoft? Your argument only works if the monopolyst is stupid enought to raise price enought to justify the entry of a competitor. Don't forget that any new competition need to make massive investment to join any existing market. The potential profits must justify this. If microsoft where to sell every copy of windows at 2000$ then there would be a lot better chance of a competitor entering the market. But it's not the case. Usualy copy's of windows cost less then a 100$ to the customer and conviently comes with a new pc just like a processor.
And would that be so bad? In my grand parents time, the musician were not dedicated, they didn't play for a living. For them the music was more fun then profits. Was it so bad ?
Your wrong. While IE is EOL on mac Office is not neither is messenger. media player as been replace with a codec pack however. Microsoft has not abandonned the mac platform, it as just ignored it greatly.
Then why the heck do i have to suffer fbi warning, and unskippable commercials on a bought dvd movie? pirates don't have to suffer that. that's why it's called bullshit
Was it really such a huge step up considering that it's main competitors at the time where os/2 and mac os 7.5 ? Really windows95 was lacking in stability and usability compared with both these other os's the only things it was not lacking where apps and hype.
look at you license you are allowed to downgrade to windows XP and/or office 2003 even if you buy vista and office 2007 seats.
I'm strongly in favor of a levy on anything that can be used to play downloadable music if and only if the levy garantee that there will never be any trial of p2p downloader or uploader in this contry and that musician receive there due. I realise that it's atall order but in my mind anything less is a travesty.
yes it's called an external firewall, packet filtering and a proxy. Seriously basic network security is about blocking what you don't want/need and allowing what you do. I hope the NSA and all are aware of that fact.
Us folks with a Novell edirectory would really like to buy vista home and downgrade to xp... XD
It dosent really work like that, RSA is an encryption algorithm, there is no harware version of it only computer that resolve the RSA algo.
I'm telling you with a strait face: i'm not going to be pissed off and wanting these people stopped. Think about it. What is your objective here? Is it selling your 5000 cd's? if so your in the red and severly lacking foresight. Your objective is not selling the first 5000 it's selling the next album and the next and the next... And to do this people have to buy the cd. To make people buy the cd you have to advertise. P2P Is a way to advertise your talent, so it dosen't return money since the music is distributed for free big deal. The magic of cd is this, once you have paid for the design of your initial 5000 every other run is only costing you another 5000$ but is returning a lot more in profit. So like everything else, you have to find the break eaven line. Now cd's like books are magical, they can stay a long time on the shelves before being bought off. Meaning over time you will make money. But only if people know your talent. When they do you can make money other thing beside the music.
This is slashdot, nobody get laid...ever. ;)
better crap then sms tho.
Nah, internet radio will not die, it will move off somewhere else where american don't really apply like say north korea... it's a big internet.
it's only a matter of time. The original xbox took quite a bit of time to be hacked to.
All good points but you fail to consider harware maintenance. It's almost impossible to buy a new machine now that has windows 98 drivers.The longer you keep windows 98 the harder it will be to maintain your computers. There is always virtualisation however.
Windows 98 ran fine on 256 meg of ram...
os/2 warp ad tab for almost everything would that not invalidate this pattent since it was granted in 1991 and os/2 predate this ?
And gues what: it's what happened, Most install of windows XP where throught oem install. Excep in corporate places where frankly everything was better than windows 98. The compagnies running 2k waited a lot of time before upgrading. Now however xp is good. It's a bit harder to justify an upgrate to vista.
My god this site list more than 150 compression algo... never taught that there was so many of them. You learn new thing every day.
Give it time. EMI said that they are going to sell drm less music on itune. Movie will most likely follow once the mpaa goes to the same conclusion that the RIAA came to... some time in the next five years
Unfortunatly if the RIAA falls then you can bet the labels are going to be hard at work building RIAA version 2. If it worked once it can work twice. They will never expose themselve to public ire if they can help it.
Of course it is. It's a solution that ignore the problem. But it's still a solution.