thats all well and good but how exactly does a speed camera stop you speeding? it silently takes your photo, and the first you hear about it is a letter in the mail with a nice big fine. they collect revenue, nothing more.
You seriously don't think that NO ONE ever speeds less when they KNOW there's a camera nearby? NO ONE? In Florida, we have SunPass electronic toll lanes, and they are pretty vigilant about sending you a ticket in the mail if you blow through the lane too fast. I absolutely slow down to the speed limit JUST because of the camera.
If the punishment for their actual crime is not sufficient, why do we not just increase the punishment? Why create all sorts of imaginary pseudo-crimes to heap onto them? How is this justice?
Because sometimes pedophiles get off on technicalities. You might lose them on one charge, but still nail them on using a non-registered name. Same way you can if they don't register their real name and location.
By the way - to those who worry about it infringing on your freedom - unless you're a convicted pedophile, molester, etc, it hardly seems to apply to you.
But if ad revenues drop below a certain threshold, the networks might decide to make the show iTunes-only, or at least move it to (for example) 3:00 AM Wednesday, to free up the time-slot for something where people will watch the ads.
They might... but then we're so far away from that happening, that the market will have substantially changed by then. Let's not forget who is Joe TV User. We're all rather technical here - and therefore a higher percentage of us have Tivo and other DVRs, may have tried iTunes for TV Shows, and may use BitTorrent for downloading of TV shows that we may not have legal right to... but we're still a vast minority.
The great bulk of TV viewing still happens live or via VCR, watching TV, mostly through Cable, many through Satellite and some through OTA antennas.
iTunes, BitTorrent, Tivo, etc still represents a very small fraction of the marketplace. Cable represents a far greater threat to CBS then Tivo at this point, and has for many years.
When alternative forms of viewing become prevalent, those who distribute and air TV shows will have figured out how to make money. Right now, that comes from a) commercials, b) product placements to help with the small but growing DVR crowd, and c) charging $1.99 on iTunes to cover those who download without commercials legally.
The only difference between what iTunes does and BestBuy, is iTunes charges $2 an episode or $35-45 a season, but makes episodes available immediately. Best Buy and other retailers don't get them in individual episode form, and you can't get it until the season is over. But most (all?) of the same shows are still available on DVD format. Oh and the quality is less, but you are paying for convienence.
But I suspect that the network's share of $1.99 is far greater than what their share of advertising revenue is for one viewer.
Why would the networks care if advertising revenue dropped because more people downloaded on iTunes? Look, I've bought a few episodes... mostly things I missed and forgot to Tivo. I paid $1.99 and got no commercials. Do you think advertisors pay $1.99 per show, per person? It's just a different revenue stream, just as valueable.
If $100,000 of ad money is lost, but they make $100,000 off iTunes downloads... overall, who cares? Advertisors pay less, reach fewer people, and CBS makes about the same. If this didn't make sense, they wouldn't let their shows be carried online.
Sucks to use Windows, doesn't it, not being able to use "su -" and control everything from a command window while logged in as a limited-permissions user?
Honestly - why should it matter if another web site posts a story first? If something happens and a 24 hour cable news network covers it at 4pm, should the nightly news NOT talk about it, since it's been covered already? That's absurd!!
Not sure I understand the problem here. If her biggest offense is arguing the law instead of personal opinions - isn't she an excellent choice? Idealistically, isn't the perfect judge one who puts personal opinion aside and weighs in based on the Constitution? That's why so many conservative groups are against this nominee - it doesn't further political goals very well.
The market for mp3 players is still very much in its infancy. Just as the first computers were expensive and owned only by the rich, mp3 players are expensive yuppie toys.
Infancy? Yuppie toy? Expensive? They start at $99, in line with say any but the cheapest home DVD players at Best Buy. DVD players are hardly expensive, nor for yuppies only.
"You overestimate how much of the market is sandal-wearing, coffee-drinking left-wing trendies who thing the ipod makes them look 'cool'. Most people don't really give a shit, most people won't want to spend such huge amounts of money on an mp3 player, most people hate white headphones. Stop making marketing conclusions based on what you see on Slashdot or in Starbucks."
Call me crazy - but doesn't Apple dominate market share for BOTH hard drive AND flash based players? I think people DO like white headphones and cool looks. I bet a fairly high percentage of plasma owners bought equally for the "cool looks of a TV on a wall" as for any technical or size considerations.
Also, the dominance will continue as long as Apple's music store is easy to use, and installed everywhere. Same reason Windows isnt going anywhere anytime soon - it's EVERYWHERE!
"Hasn't the shuffle been obsoleted by the nano anyway? I can't keep track of all these non-descriptive ipod names.
Shuffle is still on the market. The Nano replaces the Mini. And the full size sticks around. And Apple's naming seems at least as descriptive as the "DJ Ditty". Creative has a few names too, which individually are descriptive, but collectively seem a little confusing:
Zen Micro Photo, Zen Vision, Zen Micro, Zen Neeon, Zen Sleek, Zen, Zen Touch, Zen Nano Plus, Zen Xtra. And no I didn't make any of those up http://www.creative.com/products/mp3/, and no, Neeon is not spelled wrong.
If I was Joe Consumer, and not self-described Joe IT Geek, and I had to choose between 3 ipods, or think about 9 Creative products, that surely weren't ALL available in the same store - I'd buy an ipod too! Now I'll admit, I buy a lot of things for the novelty, but my Walmart purchased cube MP3 player (forget the name already, but it was a story on Slashdot awhile back) has never been used, because it's a hassle to convert M4A to MP3, and I've been ripping to Apple's default settings for a long time now, even though I used to use command-line LAME for "optimal audio quality." Apple's stuff just plain works -- and works WELL!
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thats all well and good but how exactly does a speed camera stop you speeding? it silently takes your photo, and the first you hear about it is a letter in the mail with a nice big fine. they collect revenue, nothing more.
You seriously don't think that NO ONE ever speeds less when they KNOW there's a camera nearby? NO ONE? In Florida, we have SunPass electronic toll lanes, and they are pretty vigilant about sending you a ticket in the mail if you blow through the lane too fast. I absolutely slow down to the speed limit JUST because of the camera.
If the punishment for their actual crime is not sufficient, why do we not just increase the punishment? Why create all sorts of imaginary pseudo-crimes to heap onto them? How is this justice?
Because sometimes pedophiles get off on technicalities. You might lose them on one charge, but still nail them on using a non-registered name. Same way you can if they don't register their real name and location.
By the way - to those who worry about it infringing on your freedom - unless you're a convicted pedophile, molester, etc, it hardly seems to apply to you.
If I had a little more equity, I'd buy it and rename it Petoria..
They might... but then we're so far away from that happening, that the market will have substantially changed by then. Let's not forget who is Joe TV User. We're all rather technical here - and therefore a higher percentage of us have Tivo and other DVRs, may have tried iTunes for TV Shows, and may use BitTorrent for downloading of TV shows that we may not have legal right to... but we're still a vast minority.
The great bulk of TV viewing still happens live or via VCR, watching TV, mostly through Cable, many through Satellite and some through OTA antennas.
iTunes, BitTorrent, Tivo, etc still represents a very small fraction of the marketplace. Cable represents a far greater threat to CBS then Tivo at this point, and has for many years.
When alternative forms of viewing become prevalent, those who distribute and air TV shows will have figured out how to make money. Right now, that comes from a) commercials, b) product placements to help with the small but growing DVR crowd, and c) charging $1.99 on iTunes to cover those who download without commercials legally.
The only difference between what iTunes does and BestBuy, is iTunes charges $2 an episode or $35-45 a season, but makes episodes available immediately. Best Buy and other retailers don't get them in individual episode form, and you can't get it until the season is over. But most (all?) of the same shows are still available on DVD format. Oh and the quality is less, but you are paying for convienence.
But I suspect that the network's share of $1.99 is far greater than what their share of advertising revenue is for one viewer.
Why would the networks care if advertising revenue dropped because more people downloaded on iTunes? Look, I've bought a few episodes... mostly things I missed and forgot to Tivo. I paid $1.99 and got no commercials. Do you think advertisors pay $1.99 per show, per person? It's just a different revenue stream, just as valueable.
If $100,000 of ad money is lost, but they make $100,000 off iTunes downloads... overall, who cares? Advertisors pay less, reach fewer people, and CBS makes about the same. If this didn't make sense, they wouldn't let their shows be carried online.
Sucks to use Windows, doesn't it, not being able to use "su -" and control everything from a command window while logged in as a limited-permissions user?
Use runas...
Honestly - why should it matter if another web site posts a story first? If something happens and a 24 hour cable news network covers it at 4pm, should the nightly news NOT talk about it, since it's been covered already? That's absurd!!
Not sure I understand the problem here. If her biggest offense is arguing the law instead of personal opinions - isn't she an excellent choice? Idealistically, isn't the perfect judge one who puts personal opinion aside and weighs in based on the Constitution? That's why so many conservative groups are against this nominee - it doesn't further political goals very well.
Infancy? Yuppie toy? Expensive? They start at $99, in line with say any but the cheapest home DVD players at Best Buy. DVD players are hardly expensive, nor for yuppies only.
Infancy?! Apple's 1Q results are 4,580,000 iPods sold (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jan/12result s.html). 2Q results? 5,311,000 iPods(http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/apr/13r esults.html). 3Q? 6,155,000 iPods (http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2005/jul/13result s.html).
Thats 16 million in 9 months. Are you sure there are THAT many Yuppies?
Call me crazy - but doesn't Apple dominate market share for BOTH hard drive AND flash based players? I think people DO like white headphones and cool looks. I bet a fairly high percentage of plasma owners bought equally for the "cool looks of a TV on a wall" as for any technical or size considerations.
Also, the dominance will continue as long as Apple's music store is easy to use, and installed everywhere. Same reason Windows isnt going anywhere anytime soon - it's EVERYWHERE!
"Hasn't the shuffle been obsoleted by the nano anyway? I can't keep track of all these non-descriptive ipod names.
Shuffle is still on the market. The Nano replaces the Mini. And the full size sticks around. And Apple's naming seems at least as descriptive as the "DJ Ditty". Creative has a few names too, which individually are descriptive, but collectively seem a little confusing:
Zen Micro Photo, Zen Vision, Zen Micro, Zen Neeon, Zen Sleek, Zen, Zen Touch, Zen Nano Plus, Zen Xtra. And no I didn't make any of those up http://www.creative.com/products/mp3/, and no, Neeon is not spelled wrong.
If I was Joe Consumer, and not self-described Joe IT Geek, and I had to choose between 3 ipods, or think about 9 Creative products, that surely weren't ALL available in the same store - I'd buy an ipod too! Now I'll admit, I buy a lot of things for the novelty, but my Walmart purchased cube MP3 player (forget the name already, but it was a story on Slashdot awhile back) has never been used, because it's a hassle to convert M4A to MP3, and I've been ripping to Apple's default settings for a long time now, even though I used to use command-line LAME for "optimal audio quality." Apple's stuff just plain works -- and works WELL!