One thing to consider is that a track download or CD purchase is a one-time event, and then I can listen as much as I want (no matter how much the music industry might wish otherwise), while the streaming royalties represent an ongoing revenue stream for the artists. That said, comparing to Last.fm:
low royalty CD = 400 plays
high royalty CD = 1333 plays
Amazon = 120 plays
Self-pressed = 10,667 play
Keep in mind those are per user.
Just to correct one point: Last.fm doesn't have advertising in the stream. The ads are on the website, which is still free.
I wonder though, is it possible to listen via the web browser on your mobile device? Not an option for me since I deleted Flash from my Android and use my Squeezebox 95% of the time I listen to Last.fm, but it's an interesting possibility.
Assuming it's even possible, that's just going to encourage people to continue to to use and rely on the IE specific features. We're talking about stuff like ActiveX, behaviors and IE "quirks". Please, don't let any of that stuff infect other browsers.
Actually, you'd probably create a secondary market where us skinny folks could sell our "extra" weight allowance. Assuming of course that the airlines couldn't find some way to have laws passed to outlaw that (kind of like how they didn't complain too hard about the ID requirements since it neatly solved a business problem for them, namely the resale of unused return tickets, although that's become less of an issue now that one can routinely find one-way tickets for close to half the round trip fare).
An SSN is not required to run a credit check. Ask any of the 3 credit reporting agencies and that's what they'll tell you. Finding a company knows that is a whole other story however.
That's the problem. The networks can't afford to lose the cable revenue stream (Netflix's revenue model is totally isolated from cable). For now, those of us going to the trouble of hooking our computers to our TVs are in the minority. That won't always be the case. Maybe a service like Hulu could break the cable company stranglehold on TV distribution (I'd be happy to pay a subscription fee for premium access knowing that it's needed to support show development, especially if they offered sane packages, or a-la-carte pricing). Now if we could just do something about lack of competition and choices for broadband, we'd be all set. On the other hand, if that's my biggest problem, I'm doing pretty well.
But they aren't watching it on their TV, so they aren't going to cancel their cable subscription. Read the Freakonomics post (which, I should have mentioned, is from the CEO of Hulu).
If you know how to set up Boxee/XBMC/Plex/whatever, you've probably got your PC hooked up to your TV and probably aren't too excited about running an app outside of your media center (extra clicks and whatnot). You might even consider canceling your cable subscription. If you don't know how to set up one of those apps, you probably don't have your PC hooked up to your TV (at least not permanently), so you're going to (as Hulu apparently imagines it) lean back in your chair at your desk and watch Hulu on your PC. More importantly, you aren't going to cancel your cable subscription, which is where the content producers get the lion's share of their revenue.
This post (Q's 7 & 8) I think explains why Hulu has been forced to block media center apps: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/your-hulu-questions-answered/
To be fair, Hulu needs to satisfy the desires of their content-providing overlords, and whether or not the people at Hulu agree with blocking media centers, they need to at least make it appear they are making a good-faith effort to do so (it does seem that every block they've thrown up has been easily worked-around).
That said, I suspect the thinking is the full-screen app isn't going to be used by technically sophisticated users who are capable of setting up and running one of the Hulu-supporting media centers, and therefore anyone who is using the full-screen app isn't going to be the type that has their PC hooked up to their TV.
I'm running an unlocked phone on T-Mobile. T-Mobile will give you the unlock code for your phone after you've been with them for some time (I think 3 months), and you can add and delete features (like data plans) at will without contract extensions.
I do have to "lie" on my online profile since the phone I own isn't a model they actually carry in the US market in order to make certain features available.
energy densities, gas and jet fuel show that jet fuel is actually the same or less dense than common gasoline. And if we can't trust Wikipedia and random people on the internet, who can we trust?
"As for fuel consumption, let's look first at a short trip, from New York to Boston and back again. This flight is slightly under an hour in each direction. A typical aircraft on such a route, an Airbus A320, will consume somewhere around 10,000 pounds or 1,500 gallons of jet fuel over the course of the round trip. Assuming 140 passengers, that's 71 pounds of fuel, or just over 10 gallons per person. A lone occupant making the same trip by car would consume twice those amounts."
I'm assuming that Mr. Smith as a professional airline pilot has got his numbers right. So where's your backup for your "insanely inefficient" claim?
Actually many airlines (most?) are disabling the power in economy and sometimes for the entire plane. IIRC, seatguru.com (no affiliation) has info for specific airlines and aircraft.
That may or may not be true for goods other than CDs, which typically cost (even for local artists on major labels) around AUD28.99 (at least from online sites). Sometimes you'll find independant labels at AUD20-25, but those are few and far between. In the US we typically do not pay over USD20 for a CD.
That has been my experience in purchasing music from online retailers in Australia. Australian consumers really do seem to be getting screwed when it comes to buying music.
On the other hand, just try finding downloads of smaller Australian artists that aren't geographically restricted to Australia (and forget about non-legitimate downloads -- they just don't exist). Really, what's the point in saying that you're only going to sell downloads in a very specific region, and then not even attempting to overcharge outside that region? Isn't that the whole point of the geographic restrictions in the first place?
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I exported from Yahoo an some appointments are shifted by 3 hours, and some by 2 hours. It appears that the difference is split on whether the entry was made in EST or EDT.
I haven't cracked open the CSV from Yahoo yet to see what it looks like however.
IANAL, and I don't live in Canada any more, but IIRC, it is legal to make a copy for yourself, but not make a copy for someone else (e.g. I can go to a friend's house, and copy CDs to my heart's content, but he can't make a copy and give it to me).
So making copies and selling for a profit would definitely be a no-no.
Not a photographer are you? There are lots of reasons I want to use lossless formats.
And how do you figure capturing 7 million pixels is going to take over 40 million bytes? Most cameras have 12 bit sensors, so at 2 bytes per pixel, we're talking at most 14MB and even that can be reduced quite a bit with lossless compression. Admittedly I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the PNG format, but I'm pretty sure it's not that inefficient.
If it only took a week it wouldn't be so bad. At one point the only way I could stop the damn thing from showing up on my doorstep was to subscribe again after a month and then demand my money back for the paper not showing up.
I know it's a sucky job. I used to deliver papers when I was 10, but that was way back in the old days when kids could actually get a paper route.
I think a couple of wrestling squid managing the billing and circulation might explain why the Boston Globe was unable to deliver the paper to me when I was a subscriber, and started leaving them on my doorstep whenever I cancelled my subscription (and not just one time).
IIRC they are the people that discovered her in Atlantic Canada. They had the best Canadian alternative music (when alternative still meant something) in the late 80s early 90s (and may still today, but since I'm in the US now, I don't get to here much if any of their stuff).
If by all "the appropriate companies are contacted" you mean all companies except the electric company and the water mains and sewer, then yes you are correct (and neither the electric company nor the town will tell you where their lines are).
The gas company on the other hand, will happily show up and mark the gas lines that haven't been used since you've owned the house (or, ever, since they were never hooked up to the house) and have, in fact, been disconnected for a couple decades, and the cable company will come out and paint "nocom" on the street in front of your neighbour's house to indicate that there are no underground cables at your house.
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If it doesn't do anything non-trivial and useful "out of the box" it's a framework. Therefore, Drupal is a framework.
One thing to consider is that a track download or CD purchase is a one-time event, and then I can listen as much as I want (no matter how much the music industry might wish otherwise), while the streaming royalties represent an ongoing revenue stream for the artists. That said, comparing to Last.fm: low royalty CD = 400 plays high royalty CD = 1333 plays Amazon = 120 plays Self-pressed = 10,667 play Keep in mind those are per user.
Just to correct one point: Last.fm doesn't have advertising in the stream. The ads are on the website, which is still free. I wonder though, is it possible to listen via the web browser on your mobile device? Not an option for me since I deleted Flash from my Android and use my Squeezebox 95% of the time I listen to Last.fm, but it's an interesting possibility.
Assuming it's even possible, that's just going to encourage people to continue to to use and rely on the IE specific features. We're talking about stuff like ActiveX, behaviors and IE "quirks". Please, don't let any of that stuff infect other browsers.
Actually, you'd probably create a secondary market where us skinny folks could sell our "extra" weight allowance. Assuming of course that the airlines couldn't find some way to have laws passed to outlaw that (kind of like how they didn't complain too hard about the ID requirements since it neatly solved a business problem for them, namely the resale of unused return tickets, although that's become less of an issue now that one can routinely find one-way tickets for close to half the round trip fare).
An SSN is not required to run a credit check. Ask any of the 3 credit reporting agencies and that's what they'll tell you. Finding a company knows that is a whole other story however.
That's the problem. The networks can't afford to lose the cable revenue stream (Netflix's revenue model is totally isolated from cable). For now, those of us going to the trouble of hooking our computers to our TVs are in the minority. That won't always be the case. Maybe a service like Hulu could break the cable company stranglehold on TV distribution (I'd be happy to pay a subscription fee for premium access knowing that it's needed to support show development, especially if they offered sane packages, or a-la-carte pricing). Now if we could just do something about lack of competition and choices for broadband, we'd be all set. On the other hand, if that's my biggest problem, I'm doing pretty well.
But they aren't watching it on their TV, so they aren't going to cancel their cable subscription. Read the Freakonomics post (which, I should have mentioned, is from the CEO of Hulu).
If you know how to set up Boxee/XBMC/Plex/whatever, you've probably got your PC hooked up to your TV and probably aren't too excited about running an app outside of your media center (extra clicks and whatnot). You might even consider canceling your cable subscription. If you don't know how to set up one of those apps, you probably don't have your PC hooked up to your TV (at least not permanently), so you're going to (as Hulu apparently imagines it) lean back in your chair at your desk and watch Hulu on your PC. More importantly, you aren't going to cancel your cable subscription, which is where the content producers get the lion's share of their revenue.
This post (Q's 7 & 8) I think explains why Hulu has been forced to block media center apps: http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/13/your-hulu-questions-answered/ To be fair, Hulu needs to satisfy the desires of their content-providing overlords, and whether or not the people at Hulu agree with blocking media centers, they need to at least make it appear they are making a good-faith effort to do so (it does seem that every block they've thrown up has been easily worked-around). That said, I suspect the thinking is the full-screen app isn't going to be used by technically sophisticated users who are capable of setting up and running one of the Hulu-supporting media centers, and therefore anyone who is using the full-screen app isn't going to be the type that has their PC hooked up to their TV.
I'm running an unlocked phone on T-Mobile. T-Mobile will give you the unlock code for your phone after you've been with them for some time (I think 3 months), and you can add and delete features (like data plans) at will without contract extensions. I do have to "lie" on my online profile since the phone I own isn't a model they actually carry in the US market in order to make certain features available.
All reasonable assumptions given the current state of the airline industry and American driving habits.
energy densities, gas and jet fuel show that jet fuel is actually the same or less dense than common gasoline. And if we can't trust Wikipedia and random people on the internet, who can we trust?
To quote from Ask The Pilot:
"As for fuel consumption, let's look first at a short trip, from New York to Boston and back again. This flight is slightly under an hour in each direction. A typical aircraft on such a route, an Airbus A320, will consume somewhere around 10,000 pounds or 1,500 gallons of jet fuel over the course of the round trip. Assuming 140 passengers, that's 71 pounds of fuel, or just over 10 gallons per person. A lone occupant making the same trip by car would consume twice those amounts."
I'm assuming that Mr. Smith as a professional airline pilot has got his numbers right. So where's your backup for your "insanely inefficient" claim?
Try this link: http://www.badscience.net/?p=540
Actually many airlines (most?) are disabling the power in economy and sometimes for the entire plane. IIRC, seatguru.com (no affiliation) has info for specific airlines and aircraft.
That may or may not be true for goods other than CDs, which typically cost (even for local artists on major labels) around AUD28.99 (at least from online sites). Sometimes you'll find independant labels at AUD20-25, but those are few and far between. In the US we typically do not pay over USD20 for a CD.
That has been my experience in purchasing music from online retailers in Australia. Australian consumers really do seem to be getting screwed when it comes to buying music.
On the other hand, just try finding downloads of smaller Australian artists that aren't geographically restricted to Australia (and forget about non-legitimate downloads -- they just don't exist). Really, what's the point in saying that you're only going to sell downloads in a very specific region, and then not even attempting to overcharge outside that region? Isn't that the whole point of the geographic restrictions in the first place?
Colin
I exported from Yahoo an some appointments are shifted by 3 hours, and some by 2 hours. It appears that the difference is split on whether the entry was made in EST or EDT.
I haven't cracked open the CSV from Yahoo yet to see what it looks like however.
I believe the parent is correct. e.g. the chicken is prepared for the oven...
IANAL, and I don't live in Canada any more, but IIRC, it is legal to make a copy for yourself, but not make a copy for someone else (e.g. I can go to a friend's house, and copy CDs to my heart's content, but he can't make a copy and give it to me). So making copies and selling for a profit would definitely be a no-no.
Not a photographer are you? There are lots of reasons I want to use lossless formats. And how do you figure capturing 7 million pixels is going to take over 40 million bytes? Most cameras have 12 bit sensors, so at 2 bytes per pixel, we're talking at most 14MB and even that can be reduced quite a bit with lossless compression. Admittedly I'm not familiar with the technicalities of the PNG format, but I'm pretty sure it's not that inefficient.
If it only took a week it wouldn't be so bad. At one point the only way I could stop the damn thing from showing up on my doorstep was to subscribe again after a month and then demand my money back for the paper not showing up. I know it's a sucky job. I used to deliver papers when I was 10, but that was way back in the old days when kids could actually get a paper route.
I think a couple of wrestling squid managing the billing and circulation might explain why the Boston Globe was unable to deliver the paper to me when I was a subscriber, and started leaving them on my doorstep whenever I cancelled my subscription (and not just one time).
IIRC they are the people that discovered her in Atlantic Canada. They had the best Canadian alternative music (when alternative still meant something) in the late 80s early 90s (and may still today, but since I'm in the US now, I don't get to here much if any of their stuff).
If by all "the appropriate companies are contacted" you mean all companies except the electric company and the water mains and sewer, then yes you are correct (and neither the electric company nor the town will tell you where their lines are). The gas company on the other hand, will happily show up and mark the gas lines that haven't been used since you've owned the house (or, ever, since they were never hooked up to the house) and have, in fact, been disconnected for a couple decades, and the cable company will come out and paint "nocom" on the street in front of your neighbour's house to indicate that there are no underground cables at your house.