well I've bought several thousand LPs & CDs (some duplicates & triplicates)
I have paid "license fees" on cassette tapes - to meet the music levy - despite the vast majority being for non music copying (I made original sounds for theatre groups)
Most of the CDs I have bought in recent years have been specifically to create digital copies - and now they want to change the terms of "fair use"...
if they want to renege on the fair use basis - that's fine - I am willing to comply as long as all my money is returned - I understand each track is now worth several thousand dollars...
With a UK population of approx 60m; an approx Linux market penetration of 1%; assuming 1 in 10 use the BBC regularly (which sounds low & ignores the ROW!) figures in the 60,000 range would seem plausible - he's claiming 1% of that. Some kind of "statistical" or data collection? error.
We need to get some verifiable statistics - is there somewhere to securely host data collection of verifiable details? (won't need to be big if it's only 400)
Also Firefox in the UK has reportedly 11% penetration - I am sure people who actively went to the effort of moving from MS - must be grateful to be forced back into the fold (with WMP)!
Vinyl sounds better than CD sounds better than MP3 sounds better than Ringtones.
a well engineered Vinyl player will last for decades - mine has lasted nearly 30 years so far. CD players crap out between 5 and 10 years
Yes more choices would be nice - but frankly if you want a CD buy a download and burn it to a CD
Personally I plan to buy a download first & then upgrade to Vinyl, if I really like it
There are few heavy duty vinyl albums for less than £25 ($50 approx) here. The notable exception being White Stripes - Icky Thump - that was both a great album and good value £14 for a double album. The drums and guitar sound so... live
Sit down and listen to the both - really good music is compulsive
yeah not a terribly subtle joke - but better to lighten up a bit...
the correct action would be to sue for libel in court and get the perpetrators to pay and organise the retraction. It has long been a principle (in the UK) that the size and prominence of the retraction should match that of the original (eg as in Newspapers). I'd like to say that is always applied, but I'm not sure I can...
I run our windows computers with Automatic update switched off.
I only used the advanced option to choose which updates I take (ie for software that is installed and risks I wish to avoid)
I have never "allow"ed Windows Genuine Advantage to be installed.
Yet now it is running.- Why?
I choose not to install it as the machines move locations from time to time - I do not want it to check and remove my paid for functionality. As I build my own, I pay the end-user price for windows. As I am switching from XP to Kubuntu, I have more Windows licenses than boxes! Yes maybe I am a control freak - but then maybe Personal computers should be personal
Since in Europe, you're not responsible for the cost of incoming phone calls, this would render the calls in question totally free for the people making them. This is not true. It depends entirely on what price plan you are on. It can be expensive to receive calls when you are abroad within the EU (or Europe).
It can be even worse if they have an equipment failure - Orange ripped me off for GBP50 to receive a call for which the line dropped - that I was called back on later - billed as ~30 minutes continuous. I no longer use them! may they self-propagate - bitter fruit!
Did you know that the windows are actually the weakest part of the airplane... no actually not now they are round - they were when they had corners. This is the place where nerds hang out isn't it?
I just thought maybe I should sell the idea to MS - change from using a rectangular screen to a rounded one and reduce the stress!
I had a similar problem when I was in the UK - I had signed up to the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) designed to prevent irritating cold calls.
Several calls were dropped before someone from Florida finally spoke to me - selling condos
I asked why my clearly expressed preferences and the UL law were being ignored.
I asked for their supervisor and was ignored
I was told they were US based and my laws didn't apply to them - I was sufficiently abusive (words about outlaws and assorted anglo-saxon) that they eventually insisted on my talking to their supervisor who tried to say it was illegal to treat their staff so.
I can see no normal justification, for that language, but until the US invites extra-nationals to vote on the behavior of their corporates:~) I can think of no other successful non-violent recourse.
sorry what is the difference from Sun or IBM or any other big corporation sponsoring developers?
I expect to get paid, I am not surprised when others do too...
I don't buy this quasi-religious non-corporate ethos as the best justification for open source - it's better engineering because it gets quality unrestricted peer review
I want a quality, well engineered genuinely innovative OS - what better justification?
as long as Google etc... etc... don't suddenly expect to own the code it's great
There was a time when it had a cult following, when it solved more problems than it caused: Excel 4; Windows 3.11 & NT351;early VC. When the prices and the upgrades were reasonable. They got a following and gained their marketplace, by "building a better mousetrap" (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When they focussed on creating a locked in marketplace and stifling competition - ie a quasi-monopoly - they also killed their own creativity and any sense of "good engineering".
Capitalism as based around competition and innovation; the reason communism failed wasn't because it was restrictive and unpleasant (though it was); it was because it was a monopoly (that happened to be government run). Corporate US is trying create post-capitalist monopolies driven laws like by IP and DMCA.
a good step forward - Thank you EMI & Jobs - I almost feel compelled to buy just out of principle to show EMI / Apple this is the right move.
But 256 MP3s are only slightly higher fully lossless (FLAC or whatever) is the only way to get CD quality across your digital system - please give us high quality and access to similar artwork etc - if you want to charge similar prices to CDs
In fact please give us higher quality than CDs
And just to anticipate, yes I can hear the difference, it's why I buy vinyl, when I can and only buy CDs, when there is no choice. With a decent (non-free) pair of headphones I can from my portable player
Unfortunately the conclusion is more a summary, and the analysis not that detailed.
It needs to compare the artists marketed in each model and ask what it means.
I think that 10% for eMusic is remarkable, considering these are primarily either artists have not yet achieved major commercial success; or achieved it some time ago.
For my money and they get it. eMusic is doing a fine job of widening the range of available artists, and in the new business model, the costs of doing so are marginal and the potential profits high.
My only complaint and the reason I will one day move away from them is there continued overcharging of non-US based customers. Electrons and bits don't cost more on the other side of the pond!
To my mind there is a debate about building infrastructure so that innovative and agile enterprise can develop new business models (a concept I'm sure I heard about wrt web 1.0), or securing monopolies to make it easy for big business to take it easy and stifle innovation.
I'd like to see this work, but I worry that the power of the lobbies will take will hand the benefits to big business
Having grown-up in post Thatcher UK, I think many of us have been forceably persuaded of the benefits of capitalism, so it is strange with this report and the earlier one about cellphone companies seeking to smother wi-fi, that the USA is often moving from capitalistic competition to a (post-capitalist) monopoly
The article makes it clear they're trying to discover the cause. That so many different parties are involved, it would be unlikely that anyone would deliberately ignore "an unknown external influence". - a false negative. Indeed it would be strange to put that much effort in without the potential excitement of really discovering something. an increased risk of a false positive.
Peer review of the results is a powerful tool for this kind of issue...
Wired and others speculated whether the "new economy" would spawn different behaviour patterns. The answer appears to be that business wants to buy in and dominate, using old patterns.
Clearly a fork to a truly free wiki 2.0;~)would be permitted under the wikipedia copyright terms. This would seem to be the only answer to such commercialisation.
The strange reflection I have reading what I have written, is that having spent years questioning religion and the belief in "unlimited riches etc" like the dot-com boom, I find that I feel a near relgous need to see communities like Wikipeadia succeed - which for me means no advertising... I believe, I believe.
Usually the best programmers get offered a chance to manage. When you've worked to be the best, it's not immediately obvious that you don't need to compete with the techies anymore, you need to work to get the best out of them.
There is a difference between "keeping up with" and understanding the problems and basic techniques. It also helps to have a wider technical base, so you can understand all the other technical issues.
This leads to successful delivery - the difficulty is to translate that into recognised success, as "just a good techie"(usually from managers competing with you - who presumably aren't)- is still seen as damning.
The only things I've found is getting close to the business and understanding their issues and constant good delivery - the b.......t merchants only get away with it for a year or so.
It's when it's thought perfect - it represents a risk - for already stated reasons. Whilst it is only able to direct a human to investigate what is going it seems to be a valuable aid. In the examples of false positives from physical friends - what's the difference to a bystander misunderstanding and using their cell phone (mobile)?
The truth was greater exposure brought about an enormous boom - in talent, revenue and music. But musicians toured because it was the only way to make money, due to the way the music industry ripped the musicians off.
The big difference here is that enthusiasts promoted and geniune and talented musicians grew in stature - and the overall size of the market grew
There were few "ready made" vehicles - and yes I actually enjoyed the Monkees, though we all knew what they were, but the competition was such they had to be good, even if manufactured
Come on guys we know how it works!
genuine competition is good for the audience, musicians and even the industry.
virtual monopolies and control of distribution is bad for the audience and musician - and eventually the market shrinks or doesn't sustain long careers and interests and becomes bad for the industry
In fact US business might claim it's capitalism, but really this is corporate communism rather than state communism!
Open source is a threat to prosperity and general well being it is claimed that..
"Through privately owned and developed IP, American and European IP companies have given back untold public benefit."
To stand there would be little or few developments not protected by IP
Geostationary satellites
Television
Telephones
Moving pictures
Computers
Clearly the list goes on - but these seem to cover some of the main items the IP lobbyists themselves have built their business on. mutter... mutter...
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well I've bought several thousand LPs & CDs (some duplicates & triplicates) I have paid "license fees" on cassette tapes - to meet the music levy - despite the vast majority being for non music copying (I made original sounds for theatre groups) Most of the CDs I have bought in recent years have been specifically to create digital copies - and now they want to change the terms of "fair use"... if they want to renege on the fair use basis - that's fine - I am willing to comply as long as all my money is returned - I understand each track is now worth several thousand dollars...
Basically I find the numbers literally incredible (o.5% Mac & 4-600 Linux out of 17.5m users).
I'd like to gather evidence first - before stating the BBC is accidentally or deliberately misleading us.
I live in the UK, use Linux & visit BBC everyday.
With a UK population of approx 60m; an approx Linux market penetration of 1%; assuming 1 in 10 use the BBC regularly (which sounds low & ignores the ROW!) figures in the 60,000 range would seem plausible - he's claiming 1% of that. Some kind of "statistical" or data collection? error.
We need to get some verifiable statistics - is there somewhere to securely host data collection of verifiable details? (won't need to be big if it's only 400)
Also Firefox in the UK has reportedly 11% penetration - I am sure people who actively went to the effort of moving from MS - must be grateful to be forced back into the fold (with WMP)!
Vinyl sounds better than CD sounds better than MP3 sounds better than Ringtones.
a well engineered Vinyl player will last for decades - mine has lasted nearly 30 years so far. CD players crap out between 5 and 10 years
Yes more choices would be nice - but frankly if you want a CD buy a download and burn it to a CD
Personally I plan to buy a download first & then upgrade to Vinyl, if I really like it
There are few heavy duty vinyl albums for less than £25 ($50 approx) here. The notable exception being White Stripes - Icky Thump - that was both a great album and good value £14 for a double album. The drums and guitar sound so... live
Sit down and listen to the both - really good music is compulsive
yeah not a terribly subtle joke - but better to lighten up a bit...
the correct action would be to sue for libel in court and get the perpetrators to pay and organise the retraction. It has long been a principle (in the UK) that the size and prominence of the retraction should match that of the original (eg as in Newspapers). I'd like to say that is always applied, but I'm not sure I can...
I only used the advanced option to choose which updates I take (ie for software that is installed and risks I wish to avoid)
I have never "allow"ed Windows Genuine Advantage to be installed.
Yet now it is running.- Why?
I choose not to install it as the machines move locations from time to time - I do not want it to check and remove my paid for functionality. As I build my own, I pay the end-user price for windows. As I am switching from XP to Kubuntu, I have more Windows licenses than boxes! Yes maybe I am a control freak - but then maybe Personal computers should be personal
It can be even worse if they have an equipment failure - Orange ripped me off for GBP50 to receive a call for which the line dropped - that I was called back on later - billed as ~30 minutes continuous. I no longer use them! may they self-propagate - bitter fruit!
I just thought maybe I should sell the idea to MS - change from using a rectangular screen to a rounded one and reduce the stress!
Several calls were dropped before someone from Florida finally spoke to me - selling condos
I asked why my clearly expressed preferences and the UL law were being ignored.
I asked for their supervisor and was ignored
I was told they were US based and my laws didn't apply to them - I was sufficiently abusive (words about outlaws and assorted anglo-saxon) that they eventually insisted on my talking to their supervisor who tried to say it was illegal to treat their staff so.
I can see no normal justification, for that language, but until the US invites extra-nationals to vote on the behavior of their corporates :~) I can think of no other successful non-violent recourse.
I expect to get paid, I am not surprised when others do too...
I don't buy this quasi-religious non-corporate ethos as the best justification for open source - it's better engineering because it gets quality unrestricted peer review
I want a quality, well engineered genuinely innovative OS - what better justification?
as long as Google etc... etc... don't suddenly expect to own the code it's great
sure that's how the British troops end up shot by American "friendly fire"!
same attitude
same thanks
When they focussed on creating a locked in marketplace and stifling competition - ie a quasi-monopoly - they also killed their own creativity and any sense of "good engineering".
Capitalism as based around competition and innovation; the reason communism failed wasn't because it was restrictive and unpleasant (though it was); it was because it was a monopoly (that happened to be government run). Corporate US is trying create post-capitalist monopolies driven laws like by IP and DMCA.
But 256 MP3s are only slightly higher fully lossless (FLAC or whatever) is the only way to get CD quality across your digital system - please give us high quality and access to similar artwork etc - if you want to charge similar prices to CDs
In fact please give us higher quality than CDs
And just to anticipate, yes I can hear the difference, it's why I buy vinyl, when I can and only buy CDs, when there is no choice. With a decent (non-free) pair of headphones I can from my portable player
It needs to compare the artists marketed in each model and ask what it means.
I think that 10% for eMusic is remarkable, considering these are primarily either artists have not yet achieved major commercial success; or achieved it some time ago.
For my money and they get it. eMusic is doing a fine job of widening the range of available artists, and in the new business model, the costs of doing so are marginal and the potential profits high.
My only complaint and the reason I will one day move away from them is there continued overcharging of non-US based customers. Electrons and bits don't cost more on the other side of the pond!
you can't win with flight attendants - if they aren't with "the phone is off"; "it's inflight mode" etc.
I'd like to see this work, but I worry that the power of the lobbies will take will hand the benefits to big business
Having grown-up in post Thatcher UK, I think many of us have been forceably persuaded of the benefits of capitalism, so it is strange with this report and the earlier one about cellphone companies seeking to smother wi-fi, that the USA is often moving from capitalistic competition to a (post-capitalist) monopoly
This is a worthwhile dream...
I found no links or reference to this pseudo science.
This seems an "exciting" topic with little or no real substance, please provide the substantiation.
or has global warming brought warm temperatures & the August silly season early?
Alcohol = prohibition & Mafia
Drugs = DEA & trafficking
put it in clear view, like Amsterdam and cannabis, most people will get bored and ignore it
The article makes it clear they're trying to discover the cause. That so many different parties are involved, it would be unlikely that anyone would deliberately ignore "an unknown external influence". - a false negative. Indeed it would be strange to put that much effort in without the potential excitement of really discovering something. an increased risk of a false positive. Peer review of the results is a powerful tool for this kind of issue...
Wired and others speculated whether the "new economy" would spawn different behaviour patterns. The answer appears to be that business wants to buy in and dominate, using old patterns.
Clearly a fork to a truly free wiki 2.0 ;~)would be permitted under the wikipedia copyright terms. This would seem to be the only answer to such commercialisation.
The strange reflection I have reading what I have written, is that having spent years questioning religion and the belief in "unlimited riches etc" like the dot-com boom, I find that I feel a near relgous need to see communities like Wikipeadia succeed - which for me means no advertising... I believe, I believe.
Usually the best programmers get offered a chance to manage. When you've worked to be the best, it's not immediately obvious that you don't need to compete with the techies anymore, you need to work to get the best out of them.
There is a difference between "keeping up with" and understanding the problems and basic techniques. It also helps to have a wider technical base, so you can understand all the other technical issues.
This leads to successful delivery - the difficulty is to translate that into recognised success, as "just a good techie" (usually from managers competing with you - who presumably aren't)- is still seen as damning.
The only things I've found is getting close to the business and understanding their issues and constant good delivery - the b.......t merchants only get away with it for a year or so.
It's when it's thought perfect - it represents a risk - for already stated reasons. Whilst it is only able to direct a human to investigate what is going it seems to be a valuable aid. In the examples of false positives from physical friends - what's the difference to a bystander misunderstanding and using their cell phone (mobile)?
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Stop pirate radio stealing music...
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Cassette sales harm Musicians...
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Tax on cassette sales...
The truth was greater exposure brought about an enormous boom - in talent, revenue and music. But musicians toured because it was the only way to make money, due to the way the music industry ripped the musicians off. The big difference here is that enthusiasts promoted and geniune and talented musicians grew in stature - and the overall size of the market grewThere were few "ready made" vehicles - and yes I actually enjoyed the Monkees, though we all knew what they were, but the competition was such they had to be good, even if manufactured
Come on guys we know how it works!
- Plenty of RAM half gig minimum
- fast disk (especially if RAM is cramped)
- Access to fast network
observationsI disagree with the review about the ...same quality on the PC.....
IMHO Wired http://www.wired.com/news/technology/audiophiles/0 ,2934,68891,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html have the sense of it, vinyl will survive - it's the CD format that will go - it's too compromised between quality and convenience.
Open source is a threat to prosperity and general well being it is claimed that..
To stand there would be little or few developments not protected by IP- Geostationary satellites
- Television
- Telephones
- Moving pictures
- Computers
Clearly the list goes on - but these seem to cover some of the main items the IP lobbyists themselves have built their business on. mutter... mutter...