Um.
This is the CES news?
So I guess my hopes for a Ipod Nano Video in 20gb and 40gb with built-in 1024x768 projectors is out?
This years' mega CES gadget! USB drives in a bracelet! And soon to be available in necklace, earring, pinky ring, toe ring, anklet, and belly button ring. Some items may have USB mini and may not be compatible with all computers.
Show that special girl how much you love her, give her USB jewelry this Valentine's Day.
Remember when CES had new items like, I dunno, quarter sized 40 gb drives and micro computer chips that we hadn't had in the store for a year or more already?
Bring back the days when men were men and software all fit on a stack of 120kb disks or audio tape.
The sad part is, I'm betting tomorrow we see this story again.
You see, the allotment of the second shipment of X360s is based on selling games and accessories, since that's where the money is made. But since so few X360s were sent to stores, game and accessory sales are low.
So when Microsoft reviewed the sales of X360s with games and accessories, they shipped the majority of the 2nd production run to an online store that only sells the units with a full complement of games and accessories.
This resulted in all the other vendors not having units to sell.
So 3rd shipment, even fewer B&M stores have sold X360s with accessories and games, ebay is owning the market, and all the 3rd shipment goes to a guy in Des Moines who has a left ver fortune from the Dot bomb day and begins his Wehavex360too.com website with a team of venture capitalists that are looking for anything Microsoft and internet related.
4th shipment goes international.
5th shipment goes to South Korea to be used in defending against N. Korea on Xbox Live.
Shipments 6-9 recalled due to bugs found in 1-5.
Shipment 10, scheduled for May 2006 will put a minimum of 300 units in every store that carries X360 in US, Wal-Mart to announce Low Price X360 Everyday program as X360 price is lowered to 199/299 due to low sales and competition from Playstation 3.
Sony announces shortage of Playstation 3 and begins to follow the same marketing program as X360 due to the amazing buzz created.
My apologies to Sony for outing their marketing plan. And explanation for the first three shipments is similar to how it was explained to me from a person in the computing retail industry.
COMPUsa has a solution that I can't find the link to right now. It's a condom for the CD, a clear cover that goes over the data side of the disk to protect it. YMMV as I have not tried it yet. But I think that when I get a X360 I'll buy them just to improve my scratch resistance and to have something else to blame when my X360 crashes.
Well, you already noted that it's in Berlin, but then mentioned that Germany might be soft on terrorists.
But since the 1972 olympics security failure, and neo-nazi activities, Germany is not very soft on terror.
Oh hell, I mentioned nazis, I've killed the thread.
Well, with the news reporting his latest release and the number of high page rank sites that are now linking to him in their articles, he stands to swing his page rank even higher.
I just wish I had thought of it.
You're using the same flawed logic as the **AA's. You're assuming that since they claim that the people have commited the infringement that they must have.
The burden of proof is on the plaintiff. The defense has the opportunity to defend but the best defense can sometimes be based on the fact that the plaintiff may not be able to prove the allegation based on a preponderance of the evidence. Since MAC addresses and IP's can be spoofed and hijacked and even firewalls can be penetrated, unless there is a credible witness or a video showing the john doe committing the act of copyright violation, then there are some severe holes in the plaintiff's allegations. Just because a computer on a sharing network says it is my computer that does not definitively show that it is my machine. My cell phone can be cloned, my mac address can be spoofed, my email can be spoofed, my machine could be a zombie. The reason that the majority of the people sued have settled is the monetary loss just in defending the lawsuit can bankrupt the average american and people are caving because they can't afford to defend themselves against a major industry representative that's willing to funnel costs into a deductible legal expense vs the mom and pop doe that have to choose between a settlement or sending junior doe off to college.
I think that next week we'll see the BMG settlement enter into the Enron trial proceedings. My guess is that the defense will contend that the Sony rootkit was possibly installed on their computers, resulting in their accounting software reporting music company profits instead of the actual profits that Enron may or may not have had. This resulted in the senior management relying on data that while it may have been incorrect, they had no reason to suspect it and should thereby recieve a complete download of an album from 1 of 200 (my goodness, I'm betting that 198 of them will be in the public domain and the other too will be Buck Owens' Greatest Hits and Buck Owens with AC/DC on "Dirt Road to Hell". In turn they will not only go free, but get some great Tunes!
No, fuel cells! This is the year that they are only a year away!
But maybe given all the stem cell research we could get monkeys flying from my butt.
I predict digital ink will be big with lots of press releases and upcoming projects in future years.
And this will be the year that a slashdot editor goes power crazy and tries to ransom sites with the threat of a slashdotting, and that he will fail miserably due to two other editors posting dupes of the story that editor #1 is threatening to post. The lack of faith in the negotiation will lead to long term hostility against the slashdot editors for posting duplicate stories on the same page causing multiple slashdotting. The end story will be that the submissions come from host servers with high per GB fees that had their customers intentionally slashdotted. This will cause mass user support for **Beatles.
And in the Soviet New Year, technology puts out a list on you!
There are three levels (at least) to the power companies.
There's the Generation, the Transmission, and Distribution.
Generation may be owned by the local utility or they may purchase all or part of their power. May municipals have no generation and buy all there power from other utilities. If your local utility still owns it's generation, then that does help to control your costs because they are not always paying market prices.
The Transmission system- those big towers with the high voltage lines- may or may not be owned by your local utility. In Michigan the transmission systems from Consumers and Detroit Edison were recently sold to Independent system operators (ISOs)and you'll hear that phrase often in utility discussions. The ISOs are also the common "highway" that ties the regions together into operating areas, there's a midwest, a northeast, west, Texas, southeast, and FL. FL has been connecting more into the SE and may now be part of ECAR but FL and TX are so large they are effectively their own operating region for power gen and transmission. Texas has been nearly independent in power gen and previously had primarily DC links to other operating regions.
The local distribution. The guys that you call when your power goes out. They provide the "last mile" of utility service. The prices that you pay to them are either completely regulated or are under a deregulated market where you can buy power from a 3rd party (and the utility still delivers it) just like you can get a 3rd party DSL/phone service that rides on SBC/SWBell/ATT lines. The utility carries the 3rd party power over their lines. If you are on standard offer rates or completely regulated power, then the amount of profit that the utility makes is controlled by your state's public service commission. Typically the utility's ROI is capped at 10% annually. So if Electric United of Toldeo (hypothetically) offers BPL to regulated customers through the regulated utility, then even if the regulated utility makes 1 billion in profit on that service, then the price to the customers will be adjusted for electricity.
Now the other way around is - The utility charges a service fee to the BPL ISP operator to use the power lines. In return, the utility may have a deregulated affiliate "EUToledo Networks LLC" that would partner with the BPL equipment provider and be the ones that implement the BPL and the profit is shared by EUToledo and the BPL provider. The money made by the networks LLC would go as profit to the parent holding company and thier share holders. But the rate payers would not be subsidizing it and would actually get lower rates because the local utility generated revenue by renting out the power lines to the ISP/LLC. The shareholders risk losing their money on the BPL investment and make the money from the investment. The rate payers are protected by the Public Service Commission that oversees affilliate transactions to make sure that EU Toledo electric isn't helping the networks guys. In actuality, as a person that works for an unregulated affiliate of a utility, it's harder for me to get something done than a regular company, because to make sure they don't play favorites, many people will actually delay me as much as possible.
But in the end, this might mean more profits for the companies that own the companies that own the power lines, but if your utility tries to charge you more to offer you BPL other than as a regulated service, then you need to go to your state PSC and raise holy hell.
I've worked with several different PSC's, and the people on the commissions take great delight in catching a utility breaking the rules, so if there's smoke, they will make a fire.
Exactly! With the increased exposure to different music genres and the availability to pre-screen the additional songs on an album, I haven't bought a CD in nearly 2 years. When I listen to music it's normally in the car between my preferred talk radio or news shows. Because I know that if I listen to 99.5 for an hour, I'll hear Golddigger 3 times.
So until I find another album where I like more than 1 or two songs, I'll buy the ones I like off Itunes. My total Itunes purchases in the last 2 years is about 10 songs by 10 different artists. So really, in some cases a song = a CD, it's just that their gross revenue is less when I buy 1 song.
And we have to have the obligatory -> It's the pirates! The pirates are destroying their business.
My company is going out of business in the next month, we should tell the stockholders that it was Pirates! Not mismanagement or the changes in the economy that caused our cost of goods to skyrocket, it was pirates! And we should be allowed to hunt the pirates! Someone issue me a letter of marque, I'm hunting pirates!
In Iowa, he recieved the MPAA letter through his cable ISP. They requested ~$5000 for his sharing of several movies on Bittorrent. His response was to get a wireless router, tell them that it was someone accessing his unsecured WAP, they let him off. But they didn't have police raid his house. Maybe that raid is the result of guys like him using the "open wap, sorry" excuse?
Now that they know people can create excuses, the MPAA has to escalate the response. Soon you'll just get a package at your door that explodes when it hears the MGM or Paramount music and senses a WAP.
*Sarcasm On*
It's obvious that Apple's responsible for piracy. The lack of an increased sale of CDs along with increased sale of ipods means that Jobs needs to buy Young Jeezy a new Mercedes.
It's all about the rich getting richer, and the poor musicians getting the shaft from RIAA/MPAA and the consumers that are stealing their creations.
*Sarcasm Off*
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Um.
This is the CES news?
So I guess my hopes for a Ipod Nano Video in 20gb and 40gb with built-in 1024x768 projectors is out?
This years' mega CES gadget! USB drives in a bracelet! And soon to be available in necklace, earring, pinky ring, toe ring, anklet, and belly button ring. Some items may have USB mini and may not be compatible with all computers.
Show that special girl how much you love her, give her USB jewelry this Valentine's Day.
Remember when CES had new items like, I dunno, quarter sized 40 gb drives and micro computer chips that we hadn't had in the store for a year or more already?
Bring back the days when men were men and software all fit on a stack of 120kb disks or audio tape.
The sad part is, I'm betting tomorrow we see this story again.
You see, the allotment of the second shipment of X360s is based on selling games and accessories, since that's where the money is made. But since so few X360s were sent to stores, game and accessory sales are low.
So when Microsoft reviewed the sales of X360s with games and accessories, they shipped the majority of the 2nd production run to an online store that only sells the units with a full complement of games and accessories.
This resulted in all the other vendors not having units to sell.
So 3rd shipment, even fewer B&M stores have sold X360s with accessories and games, ebay is owning the market, and all the 3rd shipment goes to a guy in Des Moines who has a left ver fortune from the Dot bomb day and begins his Wehavex360too.com website with a team of venture capitalists that are looking for anything Microsoft and internet related.
4th shipment goes international.
5th shipment goes to South Korea to be used in defending against N. Korea on Xbox Live.
Shipments 6-9 recalled due to bugs found in 1-5.
Shipment 10, scheduled for May 2006 will put a minimum of 300 units in every store that carries X360 in US, Wal-Mart to announce Low Price X360 Everyday program as X360 price is lowered to 199/299 due to low sales and competition from Playstation 3.
Sony announces shortage of Playstation 3 and begins to follow the same marketing program as X360 due to the amazing buzz created.
My apologies to Sony for outing their marketing plan. And explanation for the first three shipments is similar to how it was explained to me from a person in the computing retail industry.
COMPUsa has a solution that I can't find the link to right now. It's a condom for the CD, a clear cover that goes over the data side of the disk to protect it. YMMV as I have not tried it yet. But I think that when I get a X360 I'll buy them just to improve my scratch resistance and to have something else to blame when my X360 crashes.
Construct your future, get a new job! Jobdot.org. Not affilliated with Slashdot.
Well, you already noted that it's in Berlin, but then mentioned that Germany might be soft on terrorists. But since the 1972 olympics security failure, and neo-nazi activities, Germany is not very soft on terror. Oh hell, I mentioned nazis, I've killed the thread.
Well, with the news reporting his latest release and the number of high page rank sites that are now linking to him in their articles, he stands to swing his page rank even higher. I just wish I had thought of it.
No, woot is a different page than this one. Anyone else think that the bandwith costs from a slashdotting might eat into his profits?
You're using the same flawed logic as the **AA's. You're assuming that since they claim that the people have commited the infringement that they must have. The burden of proof is on the plaintiff. The defense has the opportunity to defend but the best defense can sometimes be based on the fact that the plaintiff may not be able to prove the allegation based on a preponderance of the evidence. Since MAC addresses and IP's can be spoofed and hijacked and even firewalls can be penetrated, unless there is a credible witness or a video showing the john doe committing the act of copyright violation, then there are some severe holes in the plaintiff's allegations. Just because a computer on a sharing network says it is my computer that does not definitively show that it is my machine. My cell phone can be cloned, my mac address can be spoofed, my email can be spoofed, my machine could be a zombie. The reason that the majority of the people sued have settled is the monetary loss just in defending the lawsuit can bankrupt the average american and people are caving because they can't afford to defend themselves against a major industry representative that's willing to funnel costs into a deductible legal expense vs the mom and pop doe that have to choose between a settlement or sending junior doe off to college.
I think that next week we'll see the BMG settlement enter into the Enron trial proceedings. My guess is that the defense will contend that the Sony rootkit was possibly installed on their computers, resulting in their accounting software reporting music company profits instead of the actual profits that Enron may or may not have had.
This resulted in the senior management relying on data that while it may have been incorrect, they had no reason to suspect it and should thereby recieve a complete download of an album from 1 of 200 (my goodness, I'm betting that 198 of them will be in the public domain and the other too will be Buck Owens' Greatest Hits and Buck Owens with AC/DC on "Dirt Road to Hell". In turn they will not only go free, but get some great Tunes!
No, fuel cells! This is the year that they are only a year away! But maybe given all the stem cell research we could get monkeys flying from my butt. I predict digital ink will be big with lots of press releases and upcoming projects in future years. And this will be the year that a slashdot editor goes power crazy and tries to ransom sites with the threat of a slashdotting, and that he will fail miserably due to two other editors posting dupes of the story that editor #1 is threatening to post. The lack of faith in the negotiation will lead to long term hostility against the slashdot editors for posting duplicate stories on the same page causing multiple slashdotting. The end story will be that the submissions come from host servers with high per GB fees that had their customers intentionally slashdotted. This will cause mass user support for **Beatles. And in the Soviet New Year, technology puts out a list on you!
That's the funniest thing I have seen on slashdot in a long time. Too bad I have no mod points.
There are three levels (at least) to the power companies. There's the Generation, the Transmission, and Distribution. Generation may be owned by the local utility or they may purchase all or part of their power. May municipals have no generation and buy all there power from other utilities. If your local utility still owns it's generation, then that does help to control your costs because they are not always paying market prices. The Transmission system- those big towers with the high voltage lines- may or may not be owned by your local utility. In Michigan the transmission systems from Consumers and Detroit Edison were recently sold to Independent system operators (ISOs)and you'll hear that phrase often in utility discussions. The ISOs are also the common "highway" that ties the regions together into operating areas, there's a midwest, a northeast, west, Texas, southeast, and FL. FL has been connecting more into the SE and may now be part of ECAR but FL and TX are so large they are effectively their own operating region for power gen and transmission. Texas has been nearly independent in power gen and previously had primarily DC links to other operating regions. The local distribution. The guys that you call when your power goes out. They provide the "last mile" of utility service. The prices that you pay to them are either completely regulated or are under a deregulated market where you can buy power from a 3rd party (and the utility still delivers it) just like you can get a 3rd party DSL/phone service that rides on SBC/SWBell/ATT lines. The utility carries the 3rd party power over their lines. If you are on standard offer rates or completely regulated power, then the amount of profit that the utility makes is controlled by your state's public service commission. Typically the utility's ROI is capped at 10% annually. So if Electric United of Toldeo (hypothetically) offers BPL to regulated customers through the regulated utility, then even if the regulated utility makes 1 billion in profit on that service, then the price to the customers will be adjusted for electricity. Now the other way around is - The utility charges a service fee to the BPL ISP operator to use the power lines. In return, the utility may have a deregulated affiliate "EUToledo Networks LLC" that would partner with the BPL equipment provider and be the ones that implement the BPL and the profit is shared by EUToledo and the BPL provider. The money made by the networks LLC would go as profit to the parent holding company and thier share holders. But the rate payers would not be subsidizing it and would actually get lower rates because the local utility generated revenue by renting out the power lines to the ISP/LLC. The shareholders risk losing their money on the BPL investment and make the money from the investment. The rate payers are protected by the Public Service Commission that oversees affilliate transactions to make sure that EU Toledo electric isn't helping the networks guys. In actuality, as a person that works for an unregulated affiliate of a utility, it's harder for me to get something done than a regular company, because to make sure they don't play favorites, many people will actually delay me as much as possible. But in the end, this might mean more profits for the companies that own the companies that own the power lines, but if your utility tries to charge you more to offer you BPL other than as a regulated service, then you need to go to your state PSC and raise holy hell. I've worked with several different PSC's, and the people on the commissions take great delight in catching a utility breaking the rules, so if there's smoke, they will make a fire.
Exactly! With the increased exposure to different music genres and the availability to pre-screen the additional songs on an album, I haven't bought a CD in nearly 2 years. When I listen to music it's normally in the car between my preferred talk radio or news shows. Because I know that if I listen to 99.5 for an hour, I'll hear Golddigger 3 times. So until I find another album where I like more than 1 or two songs, I'll buy the ones I like off Itunes. My total Itunes purchases in the last 2 years is about 10 songs by 10 different artists. So really, in some cases a song = a CD, it's just that their gross revenue is less when I buy 1 song. And we have to have the obligatory -> It's the pirates! The pirates are destroying their business. My company is going out of business in the next month, we should tell the stockholders that it was Pirates! Not mismanagement or the changes in the economy that caused our cost of goods to skyrocket, it was pirates! And we should be allowed to hunt the pirates! Someone issue me a letter of marque, I'm hunting pirates!
I agree. When he first told us about the letter, we figured he was going to have to pay at least something. He's a weasel.
In Iowa, he recieved the MPAA letter through his cable ISP. They requested ~$5000 for his sharing of several movies on Bittorrent. His response was to get a wireless router, tell them that it was someone accessing his unsecured WAP, they let him off. But they didn't have police raid his house. Maybe that raid is the result of guys like him using the "open wap, sorry" excuse? Now that they know people can create excuses, the MPAA has to escalate the response. Soon you'll just get a package at your door that explodes when it hears the MGM or Paramount music and senses a WAP.
*Sarcasm On* It's obvious that Apple's responsible for piracy. The lack of an increased sale of CDs along with increased sale of ipods means that Jobs needs to buy Young Jeezy a new Mercedes. It's all about the rich getting richer, and the poor musicians getting the shaft from RIAA/MPAA and the consumers that are stealing their creations. *Sarcasm Off*