Don't they make most of their money by performing dozes of times a year, anyway? I thought income from record sales was minimal, compared to touring and merchandise...
I'd imagine the more experience and clout a band has, the sweeter the contracts are for them (as far as money they see from record sales).
Right...because a golden vision and knowing what your customers want isn't worth anything *sigh*. All one has to do is look at Apple's income statement and stock price to figure out Jobs is doing something right.
This is a perfect example why software patents need to be invalidated across the board. They do nothing to help consumers or innovation...they're just a tool used by companies to extort money from legitimate businesses.
We use Confluence at work (as well as a bunch of other tools from Atlassian). It's ok, but it's search functionality has much to be desired (at least it's not as bad as JIRA's search functionality). What's wrong with using MediaWiki (the engine behind Wikipedia)?
That's not always the case or entirely true. The carriers/handset makers are free to change whatever they like in the Android source (and do). It's simply not realistic to test apps against every possible permutation of Android that'll surface.
But "I want to have these customers and I don't want to bother testing for them," just smacks of greed and/or stupidity.
Sure, you can test your Android apps against the vanilla version of Android via the SDK's emulator, but what about the hundreds of custom versions out there by the carriers/handset manufacturers that don't release their customized versions for testing purposes? Do you expect developers to buy one of each phone to test their apps on?
Or, you could just scrap the majority of this "probing for feature X, running version Y" crap and just develop for a platform with (for the most part) a common set of features. I'd imagine most developers would pick the route of least resistance (not to mention the platform with a wider audience). This may not bode well with the Fandoid crowd, but the truth is the truth...
I just read an article that states warranty companies are 82% more likely to write biased reviews about products they sell warranties for. Coincidence? Nah, it couldn't be.
Today, "you suck" or "it sucks" just means generic unwanted badness, perhaps with emotional overtones. Perhaps someone will be able to articulate the present meaning better than I can. But it doesn't mean what it used to mean.
You can probably thank Beavis and Butt-head for that.
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Well..it's good to see that it's not only cops in the US that are douches...
Don't they make most of their money by performing dozes of times a year, anyway? I thought income from record sales was minimal, compared to touring and merchandise...
I'd imagine the more experience and clout a band has, the sweeter the contracts are for them (as far as money they see from record sales).
From a business standpoint...yes, MS did/is doing something right (whether what they do is ethical or not is a matter for another discussion).
Right...because a golden vision and knowing what your customers want isn't worth anything *sigh*. All one has to do is look at Apple's income statement and stock price to figure out Jobs is doing something right.
This is a perfect example why software patents need to be invalidated across the board. They do nothing to help consumers or innovation...they're just a tool used by companies to extort money from legitimate businesses.
We use Confluence at work (as well as a bunch of other tools from Atlassian). It's ok, but it's search functionality has much to be desired (at least it's not as bad as JIRA's search functionality). What's wrong with using MediaWiki (the engine behind Wikipedia)?
That's not always the case or entirely true. The carriers/handset makers are free to change whatever they like in the Android source (and do). It's simply not realistic to test apps against every possible permutation of Android that'll surface.
But "I want to have these customers and I don't want to bother testing for them," just smacks of greed and/or stupidity.
Sure, you can test your Android apps against the vanilla version of Android via the SDK's emulator, but what about the hundreds of custom versions out there by the carriers/handset manufacturers that don't release their customized versions for testing purposes? Do you expect developers to buy one of each phone to test their apps on?
Or, you could just scrap the majority of this "probing for feature X, running version Y" crap and just develop for a platform with (for the most part) a common set of features. I'd imagine most developers would pick the route of least resistance (not to mention the platform with a wider audience). This may not bode well with the Fandoid crowd, but the truth is the truth...
LASIK is where it's at. Got my appointment for that in early Nov....can't wait.
...the differencebetween DVD and HD is meaningless on a 46" screen. Pretty meaningless on a 55" screen.
What, are you fucking blind?
...and I also got one of those belt holders for the phone. Why?
Lemme guess, to look like a tool?
I just read an article that states warranty companies are 82% more likely to write biased reviews about products they sell warranties for. Coincidence? Nah, it couldn't be.
I'm not sure what the biggest cause of smug is: hybrids, the unnecessary use of IPv6 on private networks, or the use of Dvorak.
David Spade called...he wants his only good joke back.
Oh yeah, he said to send you a DMCA takedown request too.
It's the unnecessary use of IPv6 on private networks.
Yeah..give me a call and we can "talk" it over.
...giving coders a couple of weeks' lead time to get their apps ready for the launch of the Windows Phone Marketplace in early October
Well, that sure is nice of them.
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"I'll be broke"
Ok, so I flew off half-cocked before reading the article (as is the /. tradition).
So, they do try to emulate a keyboard/mouse events as part of the conversion process, but it's pretty laggy apparently.
And yet this does nothing to solve the problem that most flash games are designed for a keyboard and mouse interface, not touch.
Peter Smith is blogging about the free iSwifter app, which aims to solve the 'no Flash games on iPads' problem.
That's a problem?
How about we make it illegal for businesses to make campaign contributions and lobby congress.
Good for consumers (in theory), horrible for developers, which is probably why most developers favor the iOS platform.
Today, "you suck" or "it sucks" just means generic unwanted badness, perhaps with emotional overtones. Perhaps someone will be able to articulate the present meaning better than I can. But it doesn't mean what it used to mean.
You can probably thank Beavis and Butt-head for that.