On Sun, Jul 07, 2002 at 07:13:54AM -0700, Optimizzin Al-gorithym wrote:
At 07:05 PM 7/6/02 -0700, Lucky Green wrote:,
Adding the cost of an EMBASSY or SEE environment to the,purchase of
every new PC is more than the market for bare-bones or even,mid-range
PC's will bear.,,--Lucky,
Too bad
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On 8 Jul 2002 at 7:43, Anonymous wrote:
The death of democracy is at hand.
http://www.zmag.org/meastwatch/hertz.htm
If only it were true.
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On 8 Jul 2002 at 11:25, Trei, Peter wrote:
Some forms of creation require little in the way of up-front
investment. Others do. Consider movies. While some of the people
involved get to do creative work that they love, many don't, and
they all have to make a living somehow. Would the
Bill Stewart[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
At 06:31 PM 07/06/2002 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
First, closed source testing, beginning in the late Alpha testing stage,
is
generally done without any assistance from source code, by _anyone_, this
significantly hampers the testing.
[...]
One
The death of democracy is at hand.
http://www.zmag.org/meastwatch/hertz.htm
At 06:31 PM 07/06/2002 -0700, Joseph Ashwood wrote:
First, closed source testing, beginning in the late Alpha testing stage, is
generally done without any assistance from source code, by _anyone_, this
significantly hampers the testing.
This has led to observed situations where
QA engineers sign
But right now copies of recent release movies (post screen release,
but pre DVD/VHS relase) are not generally available in high quality
format, suitable for projecting.
So one way that the movie distribution industry could plausibly
continue to make money would be rather than the movie theatre
Tim May:
People would go to theaters to see the film in all of its glory, true.
But the theaters would no longer, in your scenario, have to fork over
money to the studios.
(Or that theaters would face special regulation by government, etc.)
Hopefully this 'what-if' world has anti-trust
On Monday, July 8, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Anonymous wrote:
be available. A substantial number of consumers will voluntarily adopt
DRM if it lets them have a Napster-style system of music on demand,
with wide variety and convenient downloads, as long as the songs are not
too expensive.
I doubt
