How much is a kilowatt hour? How many KwHs does your refrigerator use? Or your furnace, or front-porch light? How many gallons of water do you use when you shower? How many gallons of gas do you use to drive to the grocery store? Yes, a MB is an abstract measurement that is hard to visualize, but so are many other measurements we use every day.
The biggest problem is the arbitrary caps, and the problems in trying to see where you are at any given moment. In theory you can go out to the water meter or Electric box and get a reading to see where you are, but even those are difficult to understand if you don't have a reading from the billing date to compare to.
That works until the tattoo artist puts the same image on someone else. Would the first customer have a claim to say you can't use that art anywhere else?
This technology is built into the new Intel chips and will become even more important once wireless display technology like Intel?s WiDi become more popular, as it would prevent pirates from stealing movies remotely just by snooping the airwaves.
As if there are pirates snooping around every rock trying to STEAL YOUR MOVIES!
The real issue is that with today's technology, if you don't ASSUME that someone is going to pirate your work (and come up with a business model that works around or with that) you are essentially just "giving it away and praying".
I like Wil's work a lot, and would buy the hard copy of his book just to support him, but he is essentially just saying "Here is my business model, if you go around it, you are a dick." This would be equivalent to me trying to sell a book for $10 in Washington State, and $15 in Oregon, and just calling everyone in Portland who drove across the river to save a few bucks "Dicks".
Today, there is no amount of DRM that is going to prevent piracy, it won't even slow it down much. Even only releasing hard-copies will only last until someone gets bored. You HAVE to make free downloads a part of your business model, whether you like it or not.
I live in Denver and was interested in how they were going to run this site, so I set up my RSS feed to follow them for a while.
They were doing it wrong. I was getting 50-60 stories a day, many of which were just 'stubs' pointing to other news sources. "Something exciting happened in the middle east, go to NYTimes.com to read more" If I want NYTimes news stories, I will get it myself, I don't need this site to act as a 'Portal' of sorts.
I was really hoping for 1-2 good LOCAL stories a day from this site, and they were trying to recreate the same failed newspaper in it's entirety.
The problem with ANY paywall is that it shuts down any conversation about the article. For instance, if there was a local news story happening in a distant city (like an Earthquake in Portland, OR) I would want to go to a news site that is local to the event to get the most in-depth news (in theory). If that site is behind a pay-wall of any kind, I am going to look elsewhere. I am not going to sign up for a site or look for a 'local area establishment' to give me a cupon if all I care about is one news story.
"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
There are many legal (read: non-terrorist) motives for having privacy. You are not doing anything illegal in the bathroom or bedroom, but I don't know anyone that would want the government in there with them.
Isn't the big difference between MS in the 1990's and Google today that there was significant product lock-in with an operating system?
It would only take 1 misstep by google and everyone could point their browsers at a different search engine, but to change an operating system, you probably need a whole new computer.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Nobody Needs To Know
How much is a kilowatt hour? How many KwHs does your refrigerator use? Or your furnace, or front-porch light? How many gallons of water do you use when you shower? How many gallons of gas do you use to drive to the grocery store? Yes, a MB is an abstract measurement that is hard to visualize, but so are many other measurements we use every day.
The biggest problem is the arbitrary caps, and the problems in trying to see where you are at any given moment. In theory you can go out to the water meter or Electric box and get a reading to see where you are, but even those are difficult to understand if you don't have a reading from the billing date to compare to.
Re: Work made for hire
That works until the tattoo artist puts the same image on someone else. Would the first customer have a claim to say you can't use that art anywhere else?
Best line from Intel Blog
The reality of free
The real issue is that with today's technology, if you don't ASSUME that someone is going to pirate your work (and come up with a business model that works around or with that) you are essentially just "giving it away and praying".
I like Wil's work a lot, and would buy the hard copy of his book just to support him, but he is essentially just saying "Here is my business model, if you go around it, you are a dick." This would be equivalent to me trying to sell a book for $10 in Washington State, and $15 in Oregon, and just calling everyone in Portland who drove across the river to save a few bucks "Dicks".
Today, there is no amount of DRM that is going to prevent piracy, it won't even slow it down much. Even only releasing hard-copies will only last until someone gets bored. You HAVE to make free downloads a part of your business model, whether you like it or not.
Nothing new about InDenver Times
I live in Denver and was interested in how they were going to run this site, so I set up my RSS feed to follow them for a while.
They were doing it wrong. I was getting 50-60 stories a day, many of which were just 'stubs' pointing to other news sources. "Something exciting happened in the middle east, go to NYTimes.com to read more" If I want NYTimes news stories, I will get it myself, I don't need this site to act as a 'Portal' of sorts.
I was really hoping for 1-2 good LOCAL stories a day from this site, and they were trying to recreate the same failed newspaper in it's entirety.
Re: Till we get some value
The problem with ANY paywall is that it shuts down any conversation about the article. For instance, if there was a local news story happening in a distant city (like an Earthquake in Portland, OR) I would want to go to a news site that is local to the event to get the most in-depth news (in theory). If that site is behind a pay-wall of any kind, I am going to look elsewhere. I am not going to sign up for a site or look for a 'local area establishment' to give me a cupon if all I care about is one news story.
Re: My Question
I would say that it's the businesses that are trying to charge for news that are the ones failing.
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"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
There are many legal (read: non-terrorist) motives for having privacy. You are not doing anything illegal in the bathroom or bedroom, but I don't know anyone that would want the government in there with them.
Operating System vs Web Page?
Isn't the big difference between MS in the 1990's and Google today that there was significant product lock-in with an operating system?
It would only take 1 misstep by google and everyone could point their browsers at a different search engine, but to change an operating system, you probably need a whole new computer.