Actually, MS does have to do business in Europe for the simple reason that if they withdraw from a major market, something will replace their products. It doesn't matter if that something is Linux or something else, what ever it was would gain a huge market base and may just turn around and start to eye other areas in which to expand. Oops a viable competitor is born.
I've often wondered why the production companies don't market direct to a world wide audience. The technology is in place and there is an audience for the most minortity interest.
The thermal noise in the circuit will limit both the rate of data exchange and the confidence that a tap will be detected (or a false positive.) Over a long distance, the quality of the connection will be an important factor.
There is also the slight problem of the common clock which must be available at each end. Somehow both sides need to be synchronised which implies either quite expensive atomic clocks or a side channel containing the information. Either limits the practibility of the idea.
There is a shitload of bands out their, but none of the big labels will see or hear them.
Hopefully the band members will be more knowledgable than the media companies. Already we are seeing some that completely bypass the tradition route. They put out a few tracks as free MP3s and gain a following to whom they sell CDs direct. The fans do the marketing.
But in court it would have to be proved that the accused conducted the searches and not some other person. And with that bag of holes called WindowsXP, who can claim beyond all reasonable doubt that a PC wasn't owned?
Linspire was paid a lot of money by Microsoft NOT to continue with a court case which would almost certainly have resulted in "Windows" being declared a pre-existing generic name.
Surely any complaint should go to Microsoft for not supporting a popular and soon to be commonly available document format?
OTOH, perhaps a note to Google who are planning on supporting some programming work on OO.org could be effective?
To presume that Microsoft is the alpha and omega of software is to surrender your world to a company whose only interest is to restrict innovation and kill competition.
It's not hard to see that the book publishers have been very lax marketing their products. Amazon was a success in part because the online book ordering services from the old publishers were uniformly terrible. Now Google is offering FREE services that will enable the world to discover book content that would be impossible to discover even if you lived in a library.
Free scan, free search, free marketing. Of course the book publishers would be against it. It might mess up their carefully constructed marketing plans by creating a demand they were previously unaware of:-)
many classical orchestras now have their own publishing label. They record, produce and market their own CDs. Music recording is a service industry. Everything you need is there in the phone book.
The hardware companies HATE having to deal with regional differences of any kind. They want to see a single product sold over a wide range of countries. DVD regions is a real pain for them and they solved it by making the facility a programmed function that could be set up by the distributer or dealer. The methods to do this leaked and the result is anybody who wants to can find the instructions to remove region controls from most DVD players.
The software companies had different motivations at first because of the way they released movies over time. It made sense to insist on region controls. Today the software companies are moving toward symultanious release across the world and digital distribution. Region controls make less sense today.
Of course, none of this made any difference to the high volume "pirates" who just copied stuff that was popular with zero difficulty.
...is aware that Apple might start dealing directly with the artists? Of course, they would have to come to a deal with the other Apple, but I'm sure that wouldn't be a huge problem.
There is no reason at all that the artists need a middle man taking his cut and doing nothing but reduce their income by being stupid.
...which is wasted. Why on earth would any computer company create yet another base operating system every few years. All the shiny stuff is in the applications not the OS. Apple finally realised that the UI is the important part and bought in an OS to run it on. A few months ago there were rumours that MS were looking at using a unix-like base OS (SunOS was mentioned.) It would have made sense.
So, MS is going to spend something close to $1B over the next few years to get Vista out the door. In that same time, Apple/IBM/Redhat will not spend that much money all together and will still have compeditive products -- maybe even a new killer application that MS misses because all it's best developers are creating an unnecessary OS.
And every other person is carrying a fat backpack or suitcase. They all look out of place and/or suspiciously foreign. Many carry curious electronic gismos and have difficulty with the english language. Some are obviously looking for high security Physics departments.
That's the problem with non-random targetting. It lacks context.
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Actually, MS does have to do business in Europe for the simple reason that if they withdraw from a major market, something will replace their products. It doesn't matter if that something is Linux or something else, what ever it was would gain a huge market base and may just turn around and start to eye other areas in which to expand. Oops a viable competitor is born.
I've often wondered why the production companies don't market direct to a world wide audience. The technology is in place and there is an audience for the most minortity interest.
Week after week the buzz is about Google and new products while MS is struggling to get updates to existing products out of the door.
So who exactly is innovating in the marketplace and who is just protecting existing investment just like an old fossilised company?
There is also the slight problem of the common clock which must be available at each end. Somehow both sides need to be synchronised which implies either quite expensive atomic clocks or a side channel containing the information. Either limits the practibility of the idea.
None of the secret phrases was "xyzzy"
Open source material DEPENDS on strong copyright laws.
Open source is NOT public domain.
Hopefully the band members will be more knowledgable than the media companies. Already we are seeing some that completely bypass the tradition route. They put out a few tracks as free MP3s and gain a following to whom they sell CDs direct. The fans do the marketing.
The Internet is NOT Television.
...applications then even a desktop machine will benefit from multiple cores.
I tried fixing a broken fibre, but the solder wouldn't stick!
But in court it would have to be proved that the accused conducted the searches and not some other person. And with that bag of holes called WindowsXP, who can claim beyond all reasonable doubt that a PC wasn't owned?
Did it work?
Are Sony CDs distinquished by appearing less often on rips?
Linspire was paid a lot of money by Microsoft NOT to continue with a court case which would almost certainly have resulted in "Windows" being declared a pre-existing generic name.
They are impossible to secure to any reasonable standard.
They don't prove identity (just that the passport data matches the carrier.)
Getting rid of them would save money and put an end to forgeries.
Surely any complaint should go to Microsoft for not supporting a popular and soon to be commonly available document format?
OTOH, perhaps a note to Google who are planning on supporting some programming work on OO.org could be effective?
To presume that Microsoft is the alpha and omega of software is to surrender your world to a company whose only interest is to restrict innovation and kill competition.
Free scan, free search, free marketing. Of course the book publishers would be against it. It might mess up their carefully constructed marketing plans by creating a demand they were previously unaware of
...space time.
You ALL owe me bigtime.
... a chipmonk who is an expert in magnetohydrodynamics.
I guess the singing career didn't work out in the end.
many classical orchestras now have their own publishing label. They record, produce and market their own CDs. Music recording is a service industry. Everything you need is there in the phone book.
The software companies had different motivations at first because of the way they released movies over time. It made sense to insist on region controls. Today the software companies are moving toward symultanious release across the world and digital distribution. Region controls make less sense today.
Of course, none of this made any difference to the high volume "pirates" who just copied stuff that was popular with zero difficulty.
There is always Bob and.... clippy and ....
...what the answer will be but...
:-)
It's fun to make them say the word "Linux" over and over again
There is no reason at all that the artists need a middle man taking his cut and doing nothing but reduce their income by being stupid.
So, MS is going to spend something close to $1B over the next few years to get Vista out the door. In that same time, Apple/IBM/Redhat will not spend that much money all together and will still have compeditive products -- maybe even a new killer application that MS misses because all it's best developers are creating an unnecessary OS.
And every other person is carrying a fat backpack or suitcase. They all look out of place and/or suspiciously foreign.
Many carry curious electronic gismos and have difficulty with the english language. Some are obviously looking for high security Physics departments.
That's the problem with non-random targetting. It lacks context.