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At this point you'd have to suggest a solution, because I cannot get what you're hinting at. If you can't my point original point is evident: the news agencies are stuck between a rock and a hard place.

US laws on ownership are retarded. You know you live in a screwed up country when you can sell everything above the ground and below the air(gov't territory) to one buyer and everything below the ground to another.

I'd like to see you try to get interoperability between Billings by Marketcircle and Peachtree by Sage, or with Quickbooks and Money Dance. Or by one version of Office and another. What you describe plagues all software. No one gives enough of a shit to make everything interoperable and lazy programmers will always make their own lazy file formats which are undocumented because they are lazy. The problem is how much involvement people have with their code.

What is "professional UI"? How is a UI Professional? What qualities make a UI Professional? That's a pretty ambiguous qualifier.

The point is even if you get everything used and at eBay pricing, you still have to buy the SDK and you still have to be financially involved.

What about skylights?

Okay so say 600 + 200 + 100 + contract, still well over a thousand for what the kill you with on a contract.

The problem is that they have tried that. It doesn't work because web advertising is significantly cheaper than print advertising is, especially because you cannot guarantee that someone has seen the advert on the web. Which is why they're currently losing money. A full page ad in the NY times on the cover is 75,000$ or 100,000$ depending on the day, one could only dream of making that kind of money on web adverts.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01062009/business/front_page_new...

I disagree, I still believe that the revenue streams are incompatible (due to culture, web users don't want to pay) or insufficient (such as ads) for a news agency to operate. What needs to happen is for someone to suggest a web culture compatible revenue stream that is sufficient to quench the financial need of a news agencies operations. This is lame attempt to do so, i.e. an iTunes for news segments. But at the end of the things the main problem is that users still don't want to pay for these things.

Well if you want to save big on energy costs and you don't mind your house being quirky an underground home is for you. When you're below the frost line, the underground temperature is 55-57 degrees F, in winter or summer. Plus you get great noise insulation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_sheltering

HoN if you like games, currently in beta.I have a few invites left if you want one.

What exactly is podcasting? Ever since I heard that term it just sounded like a trendy way to say shit you download automatically through RSS/Atom or call home mechanisms.

Since updates are a form of media, doesn't Windows Update fall under this term and therefore under this patent? It provides episodic content, ie patches, some that depend on others.

I've heard this statement before in many different incarnations some with intonations of piracy, some without. However they all fail to see the basis of where the other party is coming from. They want to be adequately rewarded for you using their content. However adequately differs very much from person to person, you may think that a news story costs a quarter to read, I may think it costs 15 cents, the CEO of AP may think it costs a buck fifty, and the 13 year old down the street thinks AP should pay him to read the news story.

The problem that news companies suffer that makes this a significantly different problem for them rather than a company like the RIAA is that journalists get paid by the company as a primary source of income, journalists have to get sent places which costs the company money, and the company's primary source of revenue is the output of the journalists. For a second lets forget print media ever existed, in the current state of the web where media such as this is demanded by users to be free this is a failing business because of extravagant costs, and almost no profits. Why print media is a failing is because less people buy print and more people read it online.

There are players who beat the market by having a niche audience, low costs, and a high price, ie the Economist. Unlike the NY Times or AP they didn't have to send several photographers and journalists to China several times for pre, during, and post Olympics. While I don't necessarily agree with this business model, an exchange of cash has to exist somewhere, finding where such an exchange is most acceptable is a another story.

I wouldn't say 4chan is the "smaller guy".

I'd say that Freedom is a good price to fool around, after you break $200 for an iPhone + Contract price, + $100 for SDK, + $1,000 for a basic Macbook for development (AFAIK you can only use Mac to develop for iPhone) you've got a $1,300 investment. I'd think that anyone serious about writing a iPhone program would do it after spending that much capital, however not everyone is willing to spend that much cash to fool around. The difference is that after that level of monetary involvement people want to make it back, or just want to make a product (IE, I spend $1,300 on nothing). However it stops people who wish to make a serious product but don't wish to be so financially involved.

IMO, Android hasn't really launched yet, and Google isn't pushing hard enough to counter the iPhone.

Also ssh-copy-id will not work if you don't have password authentication enabled. The only way to get ssh keys on top a ssh box without password auth, is to download them with some other method.