If one was to implement this idea in is U.S., most states have the infrastructure needed to bill people for the miles they drive.
AFAIK, all U.S. states (at least all the ones I've lived in) require you to renew your car license every year. Some states allow you to renew for multiple years.
When one registers a car, the initial odometer is recorded. When that person sends in the forms and money (or does it in person) a form is filled out with the odometer reading. The difference in odometer readings is used to calculate the "road tax" and a bill is sent.
Cheaters? Use a system of "random" audits like the IRS. It would an easy audit, bring you car down to the local DMV and have the odometer checked.
I would suspect the cost of such a system would be relatively low.
My ultimate point here is that using technology to track the movements of a large percentage of the citizenry is not necessarily the only, nor the best solution.
If this is true, then why isn't Adobe trumpeting it? Photoshop users would love to know that their existing plugins will work. Users of other Adobe products, like After Effects and Illustrator are faced with having to upgrade/update all their plugins. On the Adobe website they basically plead, "It's not our fault, Apple upgraded the OS, so everything must be rev'ed, including the plugins".
My home computer didn't come with a copy of MS Office when I bought it (I guess that's my fault somehow). So, when friends/family/etc. send me Word attachments I ask them to also send me a check for $479.99 so I can buy a copy of Office XP.
Really though, MS Office is expensive, even individual parts (i.e. MS Word) are quite pricey for someone to purchase for home use. I'm not inclined to drop a couple hundred $$$ just to read email attachments. When I make that point to the sender, they rarely volunteer the cash to enable me to read their attachments. They find doing a "save as text" or "save as html" or the like to be easier on the wallet.
Yes! Make it up in volume! Treat the DVDs as a loss leader to get your friends into your dorm room. Once inside, hit 'em up with some really over-priced appliances and personal electronics.
Just watch out from a lawsuit from Best Buy or Circuit City on their "patented" business method.
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If one was to implement this idea in is U.S., most states have the infrastructure needed to bill people for the miles they drive.
AFAIK, all U.S. states (at least all the ones I've lived in) require you to renew your car license every year. Some states allow you to renew for multiple years.
When one registers a car, the initial odometer is recorded. When that person sends in the forms and money (or does it in person) a form is filled out with the odometer reading. The difference in odometer readings is used to calculate the "road tax" and a bill is sent.
Cheaters? Use a system of "random" audits like the IRS. It would an easy audit, bring you car down to the local DMV and have the odometer checked.
I would suspect the cost of such a system would be relatively low.
My ultimate point here is that using technology to track the movements of a large percentage of the citizenry is not necessarily the only, nor the best solution.
If this is true, then why isn't Adobe trumpeting it? Photoshop users would love to know that their existing plugins will work. Users of other Adobe products, like After Effects and Illustrator are faced with having to upgrade/update all their plugins. On the Adobe website they basically plead, "It's not our fault, Apple upgraded the OS, so everything must be rev'ed, including the plugins".
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My home computer didn't come with a copy of MS Office when I bought it (I guess that's my fault somehow). So, when friends/family/etc. send me Word attachments I ask them to also send me a check for $479.99 so I can buy a copy of Office XP.
Really though, MS Office is expensive, even individual parts (i.e. MS Word) are quite pricey for someone to purchase for home use. I'm not inclined to drop a couple hundred $$$ just to read email attachments. When I make that point to the sender, they rarely volunteer the cash to enable me to read their attachments. They find doing a "save as text" or "save as html" or the like to be easier on the wallet.
In your FAQ, you say that you are working on "fundamental ways of improving the tools and techniques we use to build large real-world systems."
That's been on your FAQ for at least 3 years now. What can you tell us about this work? What have you found?
A *GIF*, now that's funny.
Why two hours?
That seems pretty arbitrary. Why not 1 second or some amount of time that wouldn't impace the user.
It sounds like the 2 hour thing is exploiting some loophole (or at least trying to).
Yes! Make it up in volume! Treat the DVDs as a loss leader to get your friends into your dorm room. Once inside, hit 'em up with some really over-priced appliances and personal electronics.
Just watch out from a lawsuit from Best Buy or Circuit City on their "patented" business method.
Help realize that vision by lending a hand to Broadcast 2000. Yes, it would be very cool to be able to do it yourself.
I could put my face on the pitcher at a ballgame, and my friends faces on all the other players...
Or how about being Sonny Crockett in Miami Vice re-runs?
[Sorry about the "realize your vision" bit, I just got out of a meeting with the marketing folk]