I'm not sure there would be all that much of a loss to the record industry by not selling physical CDs.
Retail shops (amazon, hmv etc) are going to take perhaps a 20% cut from the retail price. Then there's the physical cost of shipping, CD duplication and printing... so perhaps there's about $6-7 going back to the record company - that's $6-7 for 10-12 songs.
Or on iTunes - 10-12 songs cost around 10-12 dollars.
Presumably the costs of distribution are quite low on iTunes - after all there is no physical product or shop, and minimal staffing needs.
Which looks 'better' from a record industry point of view?
They're able to sell random old songs, and suffer (I presume) no limitations of keeping physical stock. Customers can pick random tracks and buy them as they see fit - classic long tail stuff. My hunch is that people will buy the same number of tracks (or spend the same amount on music at least) regardless of whether they're going for digital or 'hard copy' stuff... they just get to buy a better range for their money when it's digital.
This slashdot headline makes it sound like we're back in 1995.
Christine Monaco, a spokeswoman for the FBI in New York, said Monday that all FBI agents can communicate with each other via a secure internal e-mail system, and about 75 percent of the New York office's employees have outside e-mail accounts.
"The outside e-mail accounts have to be separately funded," she said.
Sounds like a nasty mixture of bureaucracy and inefficiency to me. Is there a difference between employees and agents? (do cleaners need email accounts?)
I wonder what their 'secure internal e-mail system' is?
My personal suspicion is that this is due to the government fixation over league tables and regular exams. The end result being that children/students are very good at taking exams and answering the (leading) questions with the right keywords - but unable to think for themselves, or probably answer a question they've never seen before.
When I undertook my GCSEs (age 16) exams over ten years ago it was clear that this was already the case, and I suspect it has become worse since then.
For a Gnome based desktop, Sabayon appears to be about the best thing I've found yet that allows you to create "profiles" for different users.
I don't think it's anywhere as good as what I've heard group policy to be, but it's a start in the right direction. I've found it to be quite buggy and it took me a couple of days to get the desktop _as_I_wanted_it_.
There are numerous other players on the market, which already have fm-radio/ogg/mp3/wma/aac(?) support, and support AA batteries (Which are far better than a non-changeable rechargeable one). And they have greater storage (e.g. 1gb+).
I fail to see how this is news or worth looking at.
- Bug tracking (let the customer have access etc, and they'll feel good;)) - Source code viewing - Timeline (commits, what changed when etc) - Integration between bugs (tickets) and source code via the Timeline - Milestones - Wiki for documentation, design notes etc.
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Ditto; and you've saved me from having to post as such :)
(Happy subscriber for the last 4+ years)
I couldn't help but think the poster/story was just looking to ignite the normal PostgreSQL vs MySQL comments.
well, at the very least they have to go to France for the launch anyway :)
:).
The professor involved did spend most of a year sailing around the Carribean a few years ago, so you might not be far from the truth there
I've heard it's undergone some considerable testing, so would hope it'll at least get half way (a bit like Beagle the space ship thing)
I'm not sure there would be all that much of a loss to the record industry by not selling physical CDs.
Retail shops (amazon, hmv etc) are going to take perhaps a 20% cut from the retail price. Then there's the physical cost of shipping, CD duplication and printing... so perhaps there's about $6-7 going back to the record company - that's $6-7 for 10-12 songs.
Or on iTunes - 10-12 songs cost around 10-12 dollars.
Presumably the costs of distribution are quite low on iTunes - after all there is no physical product or shop, and minimal staffing needs.
Which looks 'better' from a record industry point of view?
They're able to sell random old songs, and suffer (I presume) no limitations of keeping physical stock. Customers can pick random tracks and buy them as they see fit - classic long tail stuff. My hunch is that people will buy the same number of tracks (or spend the same amount on music at least) regardless of whether they're going for digital or 'hard copy' stuff... they just get to buy a better range for their money when it's digital.
Hi,
PDO and PEAR::DB both provide ways of doing this under PHP.
See http://pear.php.net/ and http://www.php.net/pdo for examples.
David.
Sounds like a nasty mixture of bureaucracy and inefficiency to me. Is there a difference between employees and agents? (do cleaners need email accounts?)
I wonder what their 'secure internal e-mail system' is?
Shit, I hope my dogs don't ask for IPods this next Christmas.
My personal suspicion is that this is due to the government fixation over league tables and regular exams. The end result being that children/students are very good at taking exams and answering the (leading) questions with the right keywords - but unable to think for themselves, or probably answer a question they've never seen before.
When I undertook my GCSEs (age 16) exams over ten years ago it was clear that this was already the case, and I suspect it has become worse since then.
DG
Clearly the government needs to require all breeding families register and pass a test before they're allowed to breed.
Alternatively, they could just add contraceptives in to the water supply.
Problem solved.
For a Gnome based desktop, Sabayon appears to be about the best thing I've found yet that allows you to create "profiles" for different users.
_ desktop_profiles which may be of some use as feedback/info)
I don't think it's anywhere as good as what I've heard group policy to be, but it's a start in the right direction. I've found it to be quite buggy and it took me a couple of days to get the desktop _as_I_wanted_it_.
(See http://www.codepoets.co.uk/sabayon_creating_linux
DG
There are numerous other players on the market, which already have fm-radio/ogg/mp3/wma/aac(?) support, and support AA batteries (Which are far better than a non-changeable rechargeable one). And they have greater storage (e.g. 1gb+).
I fail to see how this is news or worth looking at.
"Others who bought this player, also looked at : http://www.iaudio.com/ , http://www.iriver.com/ etc."
RCS / Subversion / CVS etc.
Choose your poison.
If you're looking to do it well, I'd recommend :
;))
Subversion (http://subversion.tigris.org/
Trac (http://trac.edgewall.com/
The combination of those will give you :
- Bug tracking (let the customer have access etc, and they'll feel good
- Source code viewing
- Timeline (commits, what changed when etc)
- Integration between bugs (tickets) and source code via the Timeline
- Milestones
- Wiki for documentation, design notes etc.
I don't see how MySQL could possibly benefit from SCOs O/S; if SCO collapse would MySQL support the O/S - I don't think so.
Surely MySQL are happy with Linux/Windows?
DG
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Was the transmission aerial/basestation moving to follow the car? Why is it relevant?
(I know a few years ago I had a lecture from a telecoms guy who mentioned moving aerials for 3G etc, but I didn't realise they were ready to be used)
DG
This is what the lpi ( http://www.lpi.org/ ) aims for.
It's not _free_, but at expos you can do an exam for something like 20 quid, which is pretty near free.
This Flash EULA has been around for some time, I came across it months ago when trying to deploy flash to a network of machines.....
It does appear that hardly anyone reads what they agree to!