The thing that I'm trying to figure out is how did they actually do the math, the article basically says "The study compared the logs of two OpenNAP P2P servers with sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, tracking the effects of 1.75 million songs downloads on 680 different albums sold during that same period.". I can't figure out if the estimated 6 million affected downloaded CDs were from a model based on estimates of the total downloads/average number of songs on the album or the lack of purchasing an album because the person downloads just the songs they like. i.e. The range, at least to me, spans 6 million - 72 million (assuming 12 tracks/per album) downloads. So assuming the most downloads, if everyone downloaded just the one song they liked off the album and then didn't bother following through with the purchase that would be 72 million CDs unsold rather than the 6 million.
Interesting, just looking at your first equation for acceleration, if I was to sit at one end of the bar drinking beer it would take me only 4273 and a half years to end up next to the cute blond at the other end of the bar, if we don't take into account her acceleration towards me, friction and all the other people sitting in between.
"Disclosure: I'm a contractor working on Vista at Microsoft"
My brother-in-law is a 6 year veteran tester at microsoft (FTE not contracter) on the Vista project and his Vista advice was, to quote "leave it alone, it sucks and is not worth upgrading to", he also questions "what exactly have we been trying to work on for the last 5 years?" and has explained to me that of the 3 original pillars for Longhorn, which would've made it innovative, only 1 one made it into the product and that was the GUI - in a reduced form.
You must be an IT guy, someone who has never left the idealistic world of a desk and worked in the field (no I'm not talking about the server room). $600 verses backups is simple math when you're in the field. Also, say I'm on a processing platform in the middle of the Thai Gulf and my laptop has been collecting data for >5 hours using a program that can't be interrupted then the harddrive bombs...where's my backup? There's only so much redundancy that can be planned for and implemented with any logistical sense.
"The fact is, while a certain part subsidizes the industry, the rest is just pure greed and power trips on the part of the corps.""rest assured that money doesn't go the theater"
My exact point in my questions. It's the way that this society makes money. Every service takes it cut, and while people keep paying (basic supply and demand) they'll keep taking their cut. Market competition will drive the cuts to be smaller, but while a company exists they need to pay overhead. Someone like Comcast is just taking their piece of pie for giving you the ability to access the TV shows and the internet. DVD with ads are just a way that the distributors can make more money off of their product to keep themselves going, and trust me, making the shareholders happy is what keeps them going and you make the shareholders happy by making more money. You don't agree with this? nuke your 401K retirement accounts that use mutual funds consisting of Comcast (As an aside - I bet a bunch of anti-M$ people on/. are developing retirement cash from M$ shares) don't buy the advertised products, don't support the system, but damn! You really really want to watch that new episode of Battlestar Galatica, you really want to retire at 55 and you really want the fastest inetrnet connection that you can buy so that you can read/. and complain about people taking your money out of greed.
Why do I have to pay for each movie in a movie theater? Surely, I'm just paying for access to the building and thus all the screens? Why do I have to pay for all the different bands on different days at a venue when I've already paid for access once? Why can I not go to a carnival and pay once? Why must I pay separately for all my rides? Why, in the old days, did I have to pay my ISP to connect, while paying the phone company per minute for my internet connection? In fact why do I have to pay for minutes used on my cell phone?
You, like me, are a bad demographic for the gaming industry. For the same reasons you have stated (kids in diapers) I will buy a single game play it until bored and then get the next one. At the moment I have been only playing Guild Wars for the last ~1 year. I get together with a group of friends, some play it every night, some play it on the weekend, I play Wednesday nights.
What exactly is acting young? Isn't it all relative? I would think that a 55 year old would be acting young compared to a 90 year old, or even a 56 year old to be pedantic. According to my wife I act very juvenile at times, but how many years younger do I need to act to be classed as acting young? I could be drooling all over my keyboard, as my 5-month old is currently doing, would that be acting young or just acting as thought I have some physical/mental deficiency. Or should I been smoking behind the back of the school gym, as I did at 13? What about stumbling around drunk off my ass in Glasgow, as I did as an undergraduate. Where are the specs for acting young?
wouldn't that be Imperial units? Personally, being British and living in the US I'm very happy with the mix of units. In my personal life I use F for the weather temperature, but being a scientist I use C in the lab. I use miles for driving, but at work everything is metric. I buy groceries by the pound, but happily weigh out grams for experiments. The interesting thing is that living in this dual measurement world I can write a paper in metric, but easily present that paper in metric and/or imperial. I can also converse in Imperial with plant operators when out in the field. I find the whole mixed units thing very useful. The only thing that bugs the hell out of me is the difference between a British gallon and a US Gallon, now that has caught me out a few times when I'm think about one and it's actually the other.
The one thing that I could never deal with was the pre-decimalization coinage in the UK, Didn't they just (+30 years) change it the beginning of 1971? My mum to this day still swears that it's easier to understand 240 pence in a pound than 100 pence in a pound, and she still bitches about the switch to litres (no Mr. US spellchecker I will not spell it liter) from gallons for petrol, or kg from lbs. She was telling my that TESCO or Sainsbury's tried the kg switch and went back to lbs at some point, was that true?
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The thing that I'm trying to figure out is how did they actually do the math, the article basically says "The study compared the logs of two OpenNAP P2P servers with sales data from Nielsen SoundScan, tracking the effects of 1.75 million songs downloads on 680 different albums sold during that same period.". I can't figure out if the estimated 6 million affected downloaded CDs were from a model based on estimates of the total downloads/average number of songs on the album or the lack of purchasing an album because the person downloads just the songs they like. i.e. The range, at least to me, spans 6 million - 72 million (assuming 12 tracks/per album) downloads. So assuming the most downloads, if everyone downloaded just the one song they liked off the album and then didn't bother following through with the purchase that would be 72 million CDs unsold rather than the 6 million.
What did you say? I see lips moving but nothing's coming out
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Interesting, just looking at your first equation for acceleration, if I was to sit at one end of the bar drinking beer it would take me only 4273 and a half years to end up next to the cute blond at the other end of the bar, if we don't take into account her acceleration towards me, friction and all the other people sitting in between.
I'll definitely pass on the information, he's in Redmond, if he turns up and wants to openly discusses his concerns, well that's up to him. Cheers
My brother-in-law is a 6 year veteran tester at microsoft (FTE not contracter) on the Vista project and his Vista advice was, to quote "leave it alone, it sucks and is not worth upgrading to", he also questions "what exactly have we been trying to work on for the last 5 years?" and has explained to me that of the 3 original pillars for Longhorn, which would've made it innovative, only 1 one made it into the product and that was the GUI - in a reduced form.
You must be an IT guy, someone who has never left the idealistic world of a desk and worked in the field (no I'm not talking about the server room). $600 verses backups is simple math when you're in the field. Also, say I'm on a processing platform in the middle of the Thai Gulf and my laptop has been collecting data for >5 hours using a program that can't be interrupted then the harddrive bombs...where's my backup? There's only so much redundancy that can be planned for and implemented with any logistical sense.
So that's where I left it!
My exact point in my questions. It's the way that this society makes money. Every service takes it cut, and while people keep paying (basic supply and demand) they'll keep taking their cut. Market competition will drive the cuts to be smaller, but while a company exists they need to pay overhead. Someone like Comcast is just taking their piece of pie for giving you the ability to access the TV shows and the internet. DVD with ads are just a way that the distributors can make more money off of their product to keep themselves going, and trust me, making the shareholders happy is what keeps them going and you make the shareholders happy by making more money. You don't agree with this? nuke your 401K retirement accounts that use mutual funds consisting of Comcast (As an aside - I bet a bunch of anti-M$ people on /. are developing retirement cash from M$ shares) don't buy the advertised products, don't support the system, but damn! You really really want to watch that new episode of Battlestar Galatica, you really want to retire at 55 and you really want the fastest inetrnet connection that you can buy so that you can read /. and complain about people taking your money out of greed.
Why do I have to pay for each movie in a movie theater? Surely, I'm just paying for access to the building and thus all the screens? Why do I have to pay for all the different bands on different days at a venue when I've already paid for access once? Why can I not go to a carnival and pay once? Why must I pay separately for all my rides? Why, in the old days, did I have to pay my ISP to connect, while paying the phone company per minute for my internet connection? In fact why do I have to pay for minutes used on my cell phone?
Crap! I'm 5 and can't hear anything...I must be deaf
One could question whether Universal owes MySpace advertising revenues...just a thought
I thought that he was just using the wonderful British colloquial phrase for 'thanks', oh and no I didn't mod him.
You mean like the CCTV in Britain?
You, like me, are a bad demographic for the gaming industry. For the same reasons you have stated (kids in diapers) I will buy a single game play it until bored and then get the next one. At the moment I have been only playing Guild Wars for the last ~1 year. I get together with a group of friends, some play it every night, some play it on the weekend, I play Wednesday nights.
They should have released Vista during NASCAR season, then the crackers would've been too distracted to mess with it.
What exactly is acting young? Isn't it all relative? I would think that a 55 year old would be acting young compared to a 90 year old, or even a 56 year old to be pedantic. According to my wife I act very juvenile at times, but how many years younger do I need to act to be classed as acting young? I could be drooling all over my keyboard, as my 5-month old is currently doing, would that be acting young or just acting as thought I have some physical/mental deficiency. Or should I been smoking behind the back of the school gym, as I did at 13? What about stumbling around drunk off my ass in Glasgow, as I did as an undergraduate. Where are the specs for acting young?
I thought that Sony was the beginning of the end of Sony
But you can on the SanDisk eSeries
So then a British gallon should be referred to as a British unit?
The one thing that I could never deal with was the pre-decimalization coinage in the UK, Didn't they just (+30 years) change it the beginning of 1971? My mum to this day still swears that it's easier to understand 240 pence in a pound than 100 pence in a pound, and she still bitches about the switch to litres (no Mr. US spellchecker I will not spell it liter) from gallons for petrol, or kg from lbs. She was telling my that TESCO or Sainsbury's tried the kg switch and went back to lbs at some point, was that true?
In Soviet Russia reality doesn't deal with Bill OReilly
and http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6168838.stm
Dup warning - http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/21/04 38238&from=rss I suppose that they only technically arrested him after tasering the guy a few times in the library.
You obviously haven't watched enough cartoons or played enough FPS's.