Could the labels actually be right?
Of course they could. But they aren't. There's a small problem with that interpretation of the long tail argument. The labels make enough money from 99 cent downloads already on popular songs and they say they want to make more money by selling more copies of less popular songs for less money.
They could easily do that already. If they told Apple that they wanted to make some songs cheaper and leave popular songs the same there wouldn't have been so much of a problem. They'd still make all that money from the long tail. This way they could increase their revenue from the long tail. Instead they have their hearts set on increasing prices and offering a carrot of dropping prices on their most worthless songs. They aren't even pretending that average prices will drop.
They don't care about customers and anyone who thinks they do are naive. Hell if they think their price model is so great they should try it on the other music stores and see how well it does. Oh wait they know that it won't work unless they force all the big stores to do things their way.
There's nothing good about variable pricing except that a large number of CDBaby artists would be able to sell all their songs for less money and hopefully grow a larger fanbase.
Actually, I think this is one instance where the music industry want to get caught. Then Apple's fixed price model gets ruled illegal and had to be changed. Record companies say sorry and immediately use their (untouched by this) cartel to jack up the prices on any songs that they think they can sell at a higher price.
They want to lose this case but the real losers will be the customers. If you're still unsure just look around for the labels vigourously denying price fixing in online music. They'd be all over it if it was any form of media other than downloads.
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The strain rate hardening effect is velocity dependent but also requires time. As body armour is wouldn't be fast enough to stop a bullet. Hence it hasn't been used yet in military armour. It could be developed to have been ballistic properties. For example using it in conjunction with kevlar/ceramic armour might allow for lighter more flexible armour. There's probably a whole lot of development needed before that happens. It might be useful for other applications such as light armour to stop knives, clubs etc.
For the moment sporting applications such as the ribcap allows this to occupy a place between tradional hard armour and soft padding. Sports like baseball, soccer and rugby could really benefit.
Actually no. But if the IRS came up with One Click and Amazon tried to sue them (or their IT contractor) then a way would be found to invalidate Amazons patent. The big mistake NPT made was going all the way to the wire to try and get Blackberrys turned off. If they'd settled for less than their court award after the award NPT would have done much better. Since RIM probably didn't steal IP they just parallel developed it the damages were excessive and the punishment of shutting Blackberry down was absurd.
It might be different if RIM had actually copied NPTs work. NPT didn't create much of a fuss when the Blackberry came out. Why did they wait so long before suing RIM if they were patent trolls.
He's sending a strong message of support for ODF and for his subordinates. The previous guy gets intimidated out of his job because of all the fuss M$ were making.
What better way to give two fingers to the bully boys than to appoint someone with a stronger track record of supporting open software? Its turns the resignation of Quinn from a victory for M$ into a defeat.
1 Disconnect the iMac from AC power
2 Disconnect the internal hard disk
3. Plug in AC while holding the power button
4. Power up the iMac and zap NVRAM (cmd-opt-P-R)
The hard disk can be reformatted and the operating system restored.
The instructions to UNBRICK yourself are slightly more complicated.
Not even the future. eSATA is already faster than FW800 and there should be expresscard/34 eSATA cards soon. There aren't any FW800 expresscard/34 cards that I could find out yet either.
If I had to choose between FW800 and expresscard I'd say expresscard is much more useful because it makes the MacBook Pro that little bit more future proof.
The intel iMac supports spanning!
I'm surprised Steve didn't make a big deal about this. There goes one more major reason for people to buy a powermac.
Kudos for Ars for mentioning that on the first page.
elilo http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo is a linux bootloader for efi.
Until Darwine comes along for intel it should be possible to load linux on an intel mac and run windows programs through wine for anyone who wants windows functionality.
I don't really see the need myself at the moment
Tell me about it. If those odds had been realistic I'd have been very happy and very rich. On reflection a $10 accumulator bet on a powerbook AND iLife06 would have been worth $5000 at those odds. How's that for insane?
A $100 bet would have made all sorts of headlines.
At 50:1 for an x86 PB I'd put $30-$40 on one and that way I could afford one to buy one straightaway. I don't think those odds are realistic. With iLife 06 being good value at 10:1 a $5 bet would more than pay for the PB bet even if there weren't PBs.
They're also giving you a letter which proves that your 360 is defective. You can use this to help get M$ to replace any scratched games you bought and get the console repaired.
Most people don't only rent games. They buy a few too and end up destroying their own disks too.
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Peter Andre? Our?
no. This is gonna be an origami killer! A product squashed is still a product squashed and Microsoft could do with a few more success stories lately.
Ballmer is still making his mind up about whether to throw the chair
imagine a Beowolf cluster of those...
Could the labels actually be right?
Of course they could. But they aren't. There's a small problem with that interpretation of the long tail argument. The labels make enough money from 99 cent downloads already on popular songs and they say they want to make more money by selling more copies of less popular songs for less money.
They could easily do that already. If they told Apple that they wanted to make some songs cheaper and leave popular songs the same there wouldn't have been so much of a problem. They'd still make all that money from the long tail. This way they could increase their revenue from the long tail. Instead they have their hearts set on increasing prices and offering a carrot of dropping prices on their most worthless songs. They aren't even pretending that average prices will drop.
They don't care about customers and anyone who thinks they do are naive. Hell if they think their price model is so great they should try it on the other music stores and see how well it does. Oh wait they know that it won't work unless they force all the big stores to do things their way.
There's nothing good about variable pricing except that a large number of CDBaby artists would be able to sell all their songs for less money and hopefully grow a larger fanbase.
Actually, I think this is one instance where the music industry want to get caught. Then Apple's fixed price model gets ruled illegal and had to be changed. Record companies say sorry and immediately use their (untouched by this) cartel to jack up the prices on any songs that they think they can sell at a higher price. They want to lose this case but the real losers will be the customers. If you're still unsure just look around for the labels vigourously denying price fixing in online music. They'd be all over it if it was any form of media other than downloads.
The strain rate hardening effect is velocity dependent but also requires time. As body armour is wouldn't be fast enough to stop a bullet. Hence it hasn't been used yet in military armour. It could be developed to have been ballistic properties. For example using it in conjunction with kevlar/ceramic armour might allow for lighter more flexible armour. There's probably a whole lot of development needed before that happens. It might be useful for other applications such as light armour to stop knives, clubs etc. For the moment sporting applications such as the ribcap allows this to occupy a place between tradional hard armour and soft padding. Sports like baseball, soccer and rugby could really benefit.
It's still a beta. It'll work fine with other versions.
iDiot?
LOL.
Actually no. But if the IRS came up with One Click and Amazon tried to sue them (or their IT contractor) then a way would be found to invalidate Amazons patent. The big mistake NPT made was going all the way to the wire to try and get Blackberrys turned off. If they'd settled for less than their court award after the award NPT would have done much better. Since RIM probably didn't steal IP they just parallel developed it the damages were excessive and the punishment of shutting Blackberry down was absurd.
It might be different if RIM had actually copied NPTs work. NPT didn't create much of a fuss when the Blackberry came out. Why did they wait so long before suing RIM if they were patent trolls.
He's sending a strong message of support for ODF and for his subordinates. The previous guy gets intimidated out of his job because of all the fuss M$ were making.
What better way to give two fingers to the bully boys than to appoint someone with a stronger track record of supporting open software? Its turns the resignation of Quinn from a victory for M$ into a defeat.
Interesting to see that Yahoo! got so much right by focusing on what they were good at and having a good grasp of the way the internet works.
.mac has about 1 mil users paying $99 each representing about $100 mil in revenue.
Apples
Yahoo! advertise but don't charge (mostly) and they pull in $5.2 billion in revenue.
Paid subscribers will always be a much smaller proportion of the market than free service users.
step 6. ??? step 7. PROFIT!!!!!!
1 Disconnect the iMac from AC power 2 Disconnect the internal hard disk 3. Plug in AC while holding the power button 4. Power up the iMac and zap NVRAM (cmd-opt-P-R) The hard disk can be reformatted and the operating system restored. The instructions to UNBRICK yourself are slightly more complicated.
No THIS is a new low for a grammer nazi. The correct form should be slabbed because of the shape of the iMac.
or perhaps we'll find out what went down behind the scenes when Otellini writes his autobiography.
Not even the future. eSATA is already faster than FW800 and there should be expresscard/34 eSATA cards soon. There aren't any FW800 expresscard/34 cards that I could find out yet either. If I had to choose between FW800 and expresscard I'd say expresscard is much more useful because it makes the MacBook Pro that little bit more future proof.
Fat binaries alright. Xcode 2.1 supports them and was released last June on the day that Apple announced the Intel switch.
The intel iMac supports spanning! I'm surprised Steve didn't make a big deal about this. There goes one more major reason for people to buy a powermac. Kudos for Ars for mentioning that on the first page.
Condoms over every CD and DVD inserted into the slot drive. Just 'cos my mac tells me that its on the pill doesn't mean I should take chances.
elilo http://sourceforge.net/projects/elilo is a linux bootloader for efi. Until Darwine comes along for intel it should be possible to load linux on an intel mac and run windows programs through wine for anyone who wants windows functionality. I don't really see the need myself at the moment
Tell me about it. If those odds had been realistic I'd have been very happy and very rich. On reflection a $10 accumulator bet on a powerbook AND iLife06 would have been worth $5000 at those odds. How's that for insane? A $100 bet would have made all sorts of headlines.
At 50:1 for an x86 PB I'd put $30-$40 on one and that way I could afford one to buy one straightaway. I don't think those odds are realistic. With iLife 06 being good value at 10:1 a $5 bet would more than pay for the PB bet even if there weren't PBs.
pr0S?
They're also giving you a letter which proves that your 360 is defective. You can use this to help get M$ to replace any scratched games you bought and get the console repaired. Most people don't only rent games. They buy a few too and end up destroying their own disks too.