The content providers have no incentive to employ a middleman for selling subscription packages in this scenario.
So why don't the authors market directly to us? Salon is already something of a middleman. The overhead of selling subscriptions is high enough that they don't want to be selling limited subscriptions for $5, but there may be a large market for buying limited subscriptions to a number of websites for $50, of which Salon might get a $5 cut. If you get more than six times as many subscribers that way as you would $30 subscribers by selling directly, it's a win.
I may rent [Chamber] once or twice, but I won't be buying it.
"Sorceror's Stone" is $9.99 at Best Buy this week. That's barely more than two rentals. Heck, if you itemize, buy it, watch it, and donate it to your library.
Of course, the right way to do GOF is to film two three-hours movies simultaneously and release one in October (ending with a cliffhanger) and the other in December.
Only problem is, your child stars would age 3-4 years during the making of the movies...
Listen, just because the entire world of 6 billion people is motivated by money, it doesn't mean that the few thousand of us here at Slashdot have to be as well.
Perhaps, but if you're going to work for free, don't do it for someone who is. Help Habitat for Humanity of something.
Surely these "luxury of freedoms" are part of your way of life, so the terrorists are threatening your way of life, but the goverment is actually taking away your way of life to protect it from the terrorists.
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
KMED is at 0.01 according to the stock report available at USA Today. (Why that doesn't make it a 50% drop I don't know.) It's weird to see insider trading sales listed that net $230.00...
Maybe what we need is a *trusted* network (not in the ether sense of the word) where vulnerabilities could be posted without getting the word out to the people that would use this information maliciously.
To me, I don't see any indication that the companies need to disclose technical details of the way the break-in was achieved, it's more of an issue of what may have been affected from the break-in. If Fred's Bank reports a breach where crackers may have gotten access to my account info, that doesn't tell me anything about how the breach occured.
But in all seriousness, and at the risk of sounding incredibly arrogant, I've not met someone who can keep up with me when writing code....not to mention reading and posting to Slashdot is really a one-person operation.
The continued success of OpenGL is vital for the survival of Linux on the desktop.
Remember that Apple and the Mac OS rely on OpenGL for graphics. That combined with continued interest in OpenGL on the PC side for CAD and the like -- not mention Carmack and Co. -- should keep OpenGL around as a viable alternative.
Point #1 (no Scouring of the Shire) is reasonably well-corroborated
That seems weird, given that they must have done a fair bit of the necessary setup for it just to get the Galadriel mirror scene. I also doubt they're that close to the final edit, so it seems unlikely they'd have filmed it but edited it out already. Though perhaps it is just for the extended editions.
I don't understand why people were so ambivalent about it. I'd read the book but am hardly a buff, and thought it was superbly cast, written, acted, costumed staged and shot.
I thought Rupert was terrific, Emma overacted at times but was good otherwise, Daniel was good except when trying to be hesitant. The adults were all good, and Richard Harris will definitely be missed in the later movies. My biggest dislike was the overly cartoony bits; the near swallowing of the snitch and exaggerated expelling of it, Fluffy's long pauses before action to drool and let the kids scream, etc. Perhaps a "Sorceror's Edit" is needed? KEvin Smith, where are ya?
If you're granting only "non-exclusive" rights to selling a song, it's not worth investing in promotion, mastering, or even recording--because you can turn around and sell it to my competition, who doesn't have to eat the costs that I, as a label, spend on the artist.
But who said anything about promotion, et al? The original post proposed an arrangement that is like publisher to retailer. An artist who creates a work to be distributed electronically doesn't need a publisher. Promotion can be done in many ways, recording and mastering just require hiring a studio and an engineer. I know people who have paid for making recordings out of their own pocket, it doesn't have to be that expensive.
That gives all of the control to the artist, who could jump record companies at any time, despite the "90 days notice" thing.
So?
If I publish a book and sell it to bookstores, nothing obliges me to keep selling Waldenbooks more copies to sell. If I'm an artist, if I've sold you a non-exclusive right to sell a song, what's my incentive to prevent you from continuing to do so?
It's a bit low-tech, but since I moved to NY I've been getting four or five movies a week from the public library.
I'm considering becoming a library contributor; I'll buy a movie, watch it until I'm tired of it, and then give it to the library for the tax break and the possibility of renting it again later.
1) Why is there a "quit" or "exit" menu item when a modern computer can run more than one program? Because sometimes I really do want the program to STOP RUNNING.
No you don't. (Ok, if you have to use task manager, kill, or Force Quit you do, but let's assume a well-behaving program.) What you want is for application Foo to stop using resources on your system (or to use very little). Why not have this done automagically when you close the last document of the appropriate type? Then when you reopen that document, the app should automatically start up. Why have Word open at all if you have no open documents?
Under that sort of system, you would want a way to create new documents, but Windows has a "New" menu that will create a blank document of a given type.
What if I change something in my Word document, but later on decides it was no good and wish to discard it?
Perhaps your document should save its entire creation history, with annotations of when you did key saves or something, rather than just its current state. Then you could open it and undo your most recent changes if you needed, save a copy of an intermediate version, etc.
Cable companies should be able to sell you whatever they want, and whatever makes them money.
Sounds fine, as long as they have potential competition, and pay me a fee for running that line that goes across my yard to my neighbor's house. What's that? They don't? Well then...
Slashdot Mirror
I say enough's enough, let's beat these people up.
"I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure." --Aliens
everything is liberal 24 hour news like CNN.
Yeah, I mean that ultraliberal Robert Novak is on three different shows on CNN...
The content providers have no incentive to employ a middleman for selling subscription packages in this scenario.
So why don't the authors market directly to us? Salon is already something of a middleman. The overhead of selling subscriptions is high enough that they don't want to be selling limited subscriptions for $5, but there may be a large market for buying limited subscriptions to a number of websites for $50, of which Salon might get a $5 cut. If you get more than six times as many subscribers that way as you would $30 subscribers by selling directly, it's a win.
I may rent [Chamber] once or twice, but I won't be buying it.
"Sorceror's Stone" is $9.99 at Best Buy this week. That's barely more than two rentals. Heck, if you itemize, buy it, watch it, and donate it to your library.
Of course, the right way to do GOF is to film two three-hours movies simultaneously and release one in October (ending with a cliffhanger) and the other in December.
Only problem is, your child stars would age 3-4 years during the making of the movies...
Listen, just because the entire world of 6 billion people is motivated by money, it doesn't mean that the few thousand of us here at Slashdot have to be as well.
Perhaps, but if you're going to work for free, don't do it for someone who is. Help Habitat for Humanity of something.
Surely these "luxury of freedoms" are part of your way of life, so the terrorists are threatening your way of life, but the goverment is actually taking away your way of life to protect it from the terrorists.
"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."
KMED is at 0.01 according to the stock report available at USA Today. (Why that doesn't make it a 50% drop I don't know.) It's weird to see insider trading sales listed that net $230.00...
How can they be losing money?
Outrageous executive salaries, perhaps?
The need is driven by games. I'm a gamer, so I have to have all of this bleeding edge hardware.
I don't know, my P4/2.4 / GF4/4200 and I got our butts kicked in Medal of Honor: Spearhead last night. Do I need an upgrade?
(I just realized the answer is yes, but it's not the computer that needs upgrading...)
My caffiene level is low, so I'm not sure. Google didn't even help :^(
Try imdb.com. (Internet Movie Database.)
# 100. Bugzilla - OK, lots of people use this, but Bugzilla != Mozilla.
;)
...and the lizard is cool.
No, but Mozilla does have a publicly accessible Bugzilla database, which is a feature. You can report bugs and get an idea of progress on them.
# 99. Open Source - Yeah, but good luck sifting through it
I may not, but some people outside Netscape have, and have done interesting things as a result.
Not in America, Commie swine!
Don't be such a cold war relic. It's socialist swine now.
Maybe what we need is a *trusted* network (not in the ether sense of the word) where vulnerabilities could be posted without getting the word out to the people that would use this information maliciously.
To me, I don't see any indication that the companies need to disclose technical details of the way the break-in was achieved, it's more of an issue of what may have been affected from the break-in. If Fred's Bank reports a breach where crackers may have gotten access to my account info, that doesn't tell me anything about how the breach occured.
But in all seriousness, and at the risk of sounding incredibly arrogant, I've not met someone who can keep up with me when writing code. ...not to mention reading and posting to Slashdot is really a one-person operation.
The continued success of OpenGL is vital for the survival of Linux on the desktop.
Remember that Apple and the Mac OS rely on OpenGL for graphics. That combined with continued interest in OpenGL on the PC side for CAD and the like -- not mention Carmack and Co. -- should keep OpenGL around as a viable alternative.
Point #1 (no Scouring of the Shire) is reasonably well-corroborated
That seems weird, given that they must have done a fair bit of the necessary setup for it just to get the Galadriel mirror scene. I also doubt they're that close to the final edit, so it seems unlikely they'd have filmed it but edited it out already. Though perhaps it is just for the extended editions.
I don't understand why people were so ambivalent about it. I'd read the book but am hardly a buff, and thought it was superbly cast, written, acted, costumed staged and shot.
I thought Rupert was terrific, Emma overacted at times but was good otherwise, Daniel was good except when trying to be hesitant. The adults were all good, and Richard Harris will definitely be missed in the later movies. My biggest dislike was the overly cartoony bits; the near swallowing of the snitch and exaggerated expelling of it, Fluffy's long pauses before action to drool and let the kids scream, etc. Perhaps a "Sorceror's Edit" is needed? KEvin Smith, where are ya?
If you're granting only "non-exclusive" rights to selling a song, it's not worth investing in promotion, mastering, or even recording--because you can turn around and sell it to my competition, who doesn't have to eat the costs that I, as a label, spend on the artist.
But who said anything about promotion, et al? The original post proposed an arrangement that is like publisher to retailer. An artist who creates a work to be distributed electronically doesn't need a publisher. Promotion can be done in many ways, recording and mastering just require hiring a studio and an engineer. I know people who have paid for making recordings out of their own pocket, it doesn't have to be that expensive.
That gives all of the control to the artist, who could jump record companies at any time, despite the "90 days notice" thing.
So?
If I publish a book and sell it to bookstores, nothing obliges me to keep selling Waldenbooks more copies to sell. If I'm an artist, if I've sold you a non-exclusive right to sell a song, what's my incentive to prevent you from continuing to do so?
You grant us the non-exclusive right to sell your songs over the internet or on CDs at the rate of $X per song, of which you get Y%.
No price fixing. Just do "You pay us $X per copy you sell." Let 'em set their own prices, that's their business.
It's a bit low-tech, but since I moved to NY I've been getting four or five movies a week from the public library.
I'm considering becoming a library contributor; I'll buy a movie, watch it until I'm tired of it, and then give it to the library for the tax break and the possibility of renting it again later.
1) Why is there a "quit" or "exit" menu item when a modern computer can run more than one program? Because sometimes I really do want the program to STOP RUNNING.
No you don't. (Ok, if you have to use task manager, kill, or Force Quit you do, but let's assume a well-behaving program.) What you want is for application Foo to stop using resources on your system (or to use very little). Why not have this done automagically when you close the last document of the appropriate type? Then when you reopen that document, the app should automatically start up. Why have Word open at all if you have no open documents?
Under that sort of system, you would want a way to create new documents, but Windows has a "New" menu that will create a blank document of a given type.
What if I change something in my Word document, but later on decides it was no good and wish to discard it?
Perhaps your document should save its entire creation history, with annotations of when you did key saves or something, rather than just its current state. Then you could open it and undo your most recent changes if you needed, save a copy of an intermediate version, etc.
Cable companies should be able to sell you whatever they want, and whatever makes them money.
Sounds fine, as long as they have potential competition, and pay me a fee for running that line that goes across my yard to my neighbor's house. What's that? They don't? Well then...