This may be slightly off but I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good reading materials for setting up clustered sites or how to spread out work loads like they're doing with their systems.
Lets not forget that 5 minutes after it's initial release all the bugs that were found. Those were just people going back trying to download Safari again and hope it fixed the disastrous browsing experience they just had.
This software is absolutely amazing, especially when you consider the programmatic side of this.
People bashing this without actually watching the video AND playing with the operating demo are really missing out. You don't have to like it but at least have a reason that shows some form of intelligence. Not just "the intro was poorly done".
Personally, I'd just create my own homepage. That way I can have it look EXACTLY like I want it to and have easily have all my favorite links on there. Not to mention, pretty much every ISP out there today gives you at least 10 megs of web hosting that you can use so you can access it anywhere. In addition, it's a good learning experience:).
Plus, they are going to end up developing a database of information about you based off what feeds you want, links you have, sites you visit. May as well not feed them anymore then you have to.
Maybe instead of teaming up with law officials they can start holding classes for parenting. The parents could have prevented these situations from happening by informing their children of the dangers. And as a parent it is their responsibility if they do not understand the "internet" or what their children are doing to find out and provide the proper care for them.
If you take a step back and put this into perspective you are able to really get a clear picture of how much money this companies are making on a per track basis.
If they are charging.70 to music retailers then consider the following:.99 = iTunes (cheaper if CD is purchased).93 = CD of 15 songs priced at $16
I recently came across an article suggesting that artists on average get paid around.25 per song. This computes into an estimated profit of roughly.45 per song. Of course compute that into a couple of million songs sold for one major artist and you're looking at $900,000 in profit for the record company. Not to shabby for one major artist.
The point being I still see plenty of reports of artists selling this many records on a regular basis. I would find it difficult to do much complaining about profit loss when I am bringing in something like that from one person. All the smaller artists you have can cover costs.
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This may be slightly off but I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good reading materials for setting up clustered sites or how to spread out work loads like they're doing with their systems.
Lets not forget that 5 minutes after it's initial release all the bugs that were found. Those were just people going back trying to download Safari again and hope it fixed the disastrous browsing experience they just had.
This software is absolutely amazing, especially when you consider the programmatic side of this. People bashing this without actually watching the video AND playing with the operating demo are really missing out. You don't have to like it but at least have a reason that shows some form of intelligence. Not just "the intro was poorly done".
Personally, I'd just create my own homepage. That way I can have it look EXACTLY like I want it to and have easily have all my favorite links on there. Not to mention, pretty much every ISP out there today gives you at least 10 megs of web hosting that you can use so you can access it anywhere. In addition, it's a good learning experience :).
Plus, they are going to end up developing a database of information about you based off what feeds you want, links you have, sites you visit. May as well not feed them anymore then you have to.
Maybe instead of teaming up with law officials they can start holding classes for parenting. The parents could have prevented these situations from happening by informing their children of the dangers. And as a parent it is their responsibility if they do not understand the "internet" or what their children are doing to find out and provide the proper care for them.
If you take a step back and put this into perspective you are able to really get a clear picture of how much money this companies are making on a per track basis. If they are charging .70 to music retailers then consider the following: .99 = iTunes (cheaper if CD is purchased) .93 = CD of 15 songs priced at $16
I recently came across an article suggesting that artists on average get paid around .25 per song. This computes into an estimated profit of roughly .45 per song. Of course compute that into a couple of million songs sold for one major artist and you're looking at $900,000 in profit for the record company. Not to shabby for one major artist.
The point being I still see plenty of reports of artists selling this many records on a regular basis. I would find it difficult to do much complaining about profit loss when I am bringing in something like that from one person. All the smaller artists you have can cover costs.
Now people are just waiting for jenna jameson to start doing short clip advertisements for her (pun)deeply(/pun) involved movies.
Next thing you know they're going to reduce the price of Vista!