No, 10.1 billion per year in game sales versus 200 million per month in app sales. Also, TFA says that app sales may have already reached 300 million per month in the past few months, which shows how rapidly online sales are catching up with with physical games' 840 million per month.
Being first means you get a premium on sales without competition, and can reinvest the extra money to continuously improve your product to stay ahead as competition starts to appear, and always have better margins.
Who created the first personal computer again? The first television? The first radio?
Often the company that becomes rich off an invention isn't the one that first creates it but the one that waits for the technology to mature and spread a bit. It's very easy for the pioneers to become associated with the inconveniences and incompatibilities of an emerging technology, while relative latecomers simply by virtue of their delay become associated with a much smoother experience.
Sorry, my last post could have used a bit more editing. The Dropbox reference actually came from the GP, who suggested:
something very like Dropbox will be more integrated into the system
I was expanding on that, saying it would be nice to see all of MobileMe become included with OS X instead of being sold as a separate product. With Chrome OS (and Google's services in general) offering cloud-based storage for free, Apple should suck up the cost and make free MobileMe another selling point for the Mac.
In addition to a Dropbox-like service, it seems reasonable for Apple to fully integrate MobileMe into the next version of OS X, and as you mentioned backup/sync for iOS seems obvious. They might even extend that service to the Mac App Store.
Considering the upload speed and reliability of typical residential broadband, I also don't see what the cloud offers end users at this point beyond limited storage and syncing. Anything else would raise privacy concerns, waste bandwidth, and—perhaps most importantly—detract from the "native app experience" that Apple so cares about.
After Mark Jensen’s wife died mysteriously in 1998, he consented to police searching his home for causes.
In October 1998, the Jensens’ home computer revealed that searches for various means of death coincided with e-mails between Jensen and his then-paramour, Kelly, discussing how they planned to deal with their respective spouses and begin “cleaning up [their] lives” so they could be together and take a cruise the next year.
So it sounds like a dumb criminal got caught by police doing their job. Is Slashdot so far toward the anarchist fringe that this is being spun...
from the unless-everybody-joins-in dept.
What if searches for devious, undetectable methods of murder were in everyone's history?
Considering that middle management and bureaucracy continue to expand, pointless consumerism runs rampant, obsolete or oversized corporations get billions in subsidies and tax loopholes, and the largest sector of the US economy is now finance (surpassing all goods-producing industries combined), it's arguable that we've long passed the point where society required full employment to provide its needs, and we have now entered the phase of endlessly inventing new high-paid welfare jobs that do little other than keep unemployment low and the GDP high (on paper).
(holy run-on sentence, Batman!)
If there was a strong social safety net, it's true that many people would simply drop out and live off the state's dime. But it would mostly weed out the unmotivated, the burned out, and those ill-suited to their jobs—in other words, people who were barely contributing if not detrimental to their own companies. If companies could no longer frighten workers with the spectre of unemployment, employees would have much greater bargaining power without resorting to labor unions. It would also give many people the chance to spend some quality time in their garage on that crazy idea they think might change the world. Or the chance to go back to school and learn some useful things. Or the chance to spend some time with their kids. Eliminating retirement and unemployment benefits would go a long way towards removing highly paid but underperforming employees and positions**. All in all, the workforce would be smaller but much more active; agile, motivated, and organic, like capitalism is supposed to be.
I don't think we've yet reached the point where we could switch to such a system without pain and suffering, but the inexorable advance of technology brings a world of employment-by-choice closer to reality. Population growth is slowing worldwide thanks to increasing affluence. For once we find much of our industry—like cars, airplanes, computers, and appliances—becoming more efficient over time, not less. Our most industrialized countries already have more than enough resources and technology to meet the fundamental desires of their populace—subsistence, transportation, communication, and recreation. Since we already have proven the practicality of an industrial base large enough to satisfy the entire population, it becomes mostly an issue of optimization and labor reduction. Assuming we can adopt a better source of energy than fossil fuels, and assuming materialism hasn't been ordained the state religion by then, I doubt this century will end without reaching the point where we can offload enough of our menial work onto computers and machines that we don't mind doing the remainder. It might not be a Star Trek techno-utopia, but it would solve a lot of problems.
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**(If an employee is particularly valuable, they should be paid more now, not promised pensions twenty, thirty, forty years down the line. If the employee is smart, they'll invest the money wisely. If they're not smart, at least the safety net means they won't be sleeping in the gutter. In either case, you won't see the triune problems of employees twiddling their thumbs until their pensions mature, companies unwilling to fire underperforming executives because they don't want to pay their golden parachutes, and the financial ruin of victims of Enron-type collapses.)
To be fair, Chinese property rights are slowly improving, and compulsory purchase (in one form or another) is fairly common worldwide. After all, you've got to build bypasses...
The ISRO mentions a "large altitude error"; I'm no rocket scientist, but if I had to guess I'd say that the first stage stopped thrusting evenly, causing the GSLV to veer off course and the errant rocket was destroyed for safety reasons. Or the resulting torque from the offset thrust vector tore the second stage off.
There are also reports of locals finding hunks of charred reindeer throughout the region, but I'd chalk that up to coincidence.
There's a lot of things that won't run under Rosetta. Besides, Rosetta was emulating a RISC architecture on higher-powered CISC chips. This would be emulating a CISC architecture on lower-powered RISC chips. Good luck.
But Windows' main (and practically lone) selling point is that it works with all your old software. If they rewrite it for ARM, it may say "Windows" on it but it won't run your apps or play your games.
And I'm sure users will enjoy discovering that after they buy "Windows" tablets and netbooks.
I'd go with the Flintstones sound effects; the xylophone tiptoe noise for < 10km/h, the running noise for acceleration, and the braking noise for, well, braking.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can hear examples of all three in the first 60 seconds of this clip. And please get off my lawn.
In the future it would be nice if sign makers were required to include a data matrix in some corner, and put various translations into an online database. That way, any device with the most rudimentary camera and data service could translate it accurately, and it would be a lot cleaner than putting multilingual signs everywhere.
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No, 10.1 billion per year in game sales versus 200 million per month in app sales. Also, TFA says that app sales may have already reached 300 million per month in the past few months, which shows how rapidly online sales are catching up with with physical games' 840 million per month.
There are other consoles.
Like that would ever happen...
Being first means you get a premium on sales without competition, and can reinvest the extra money to continuously improve your product to stay ahead as competition starts to appear, and always have better margins.
Who created the first personal computer again? The first television? The first radio?
Often the company that becomes rich off an invention isn't the one that first creates it but the one that waits for the technology to mature and spread a bit. It's very easy for the pioneers to become associated with the inconveniences and incompatibilities of an emerging technology, while relative latecomers simply by virtue of their delay become associated with a much smoother experience.
Sorry, my last post could have used a bit more editing. The Dropbox reference actually came from the GP, who suggested:
something very like Dropbox will be more integrated into the system
I was expanding on that, saying it would be nice to see all of MobileMe become included with OS X instead of being sold as a separate product. With Chrome OS (and Google's services in general) offering cloud-based storage for free, Apple should suck up the cost and make free MobileMe another selling point for the Mac.
In addition to a Dropbox-like service, it seems reasonable for Apple to fully integrate MobileMe into the next version of OS X, and as you mentioned backup/sync for iOS seems obvious. They might even extend that service to the Mac App Store.
Considering the upload speed and reliability of typical residential broadband, I also don't see what the cloud offers end users at this point beyond limited storage and syncing. Anything else would raise privacy concerns, waste bandwidth, and—perhaps most importantly—detract from the "native app experience" that Apple so cares about.
It reminds me of an old (and unintentionally hilarious) Crucial memory ad: "Your computer...at Internet speed!"
Maybe he was using Vista's voice recognition.
After Mark Jensen’s wife died mysteriously in 1998, he consented to police searching his home for causes.
In October 1998, the Jensens’ home computer revealed that searches for various means of death coincided with e-mails between Jensen and his then-paramour, Kelly, discussing how they planned to deal with their respective spouses and begin “cleaning up [their] lives” so they could be together and take a cruise the next year.
So it sounds like a dumb criminal got caught by police doing their job. Is Slashdot so far toward the anarchist fringe that this is being spun...
from the unless-everybody-joins-in dept.
What if searches for devious, undetectable methods of murder were in everyone's history?
as some sort of The People vs. Big Brother thing?
or the other, um way around in the case of um... ladies.
It's been done, at least in Japan (where else?)
I'm waiting for the model that tells me when radiation will reach lethal levels. To the second if possible.
Considering that middle management and bureaucracy continue to expand, pointless consumerism runs rampant, obsolete or oversized corporations get billions in subsidies and tax loopholes, and the largest sector of the US economy is now finance (surpassing all goods-producing industries combined), it's arguable that we've long passed the point where society required full employment to provide its needs, and we have now entered the phase of endlessly inventing new high-paid welfare jobs that do little other than keep unemployment low and the GDP high (on paper).
(holy run-on sentence, Batman!)
If there was a strong social safety net, it's true that many people would simply drop out and live off the state's dime. But it would mostly weed out the unmotivated, the burned out, and those ill-suited to their jobs—in other words, people who were barely contributing if not detrimental to their own companies. If companies could no longer frighten workers with the spectre of unemployment, employees would have much greater bargaining power without resorting to labor unions. It would also give many people the chance to spend some quality time in their garage on that crazy idea they think might change the world. Or the chance to go back to school and learn some useful things. Or the chance to spend some time with their kids. Eliminating retirement and unemployment benefits would go a long way towards removing highly paid but underperforming employees and positions**. All in all, the workforce would be smaller but much more active; agile, motivated, and organic, like capitalism is supposed to be.
I don't think we've yet reached the point where we could switch to such a system without pain and suffering, but the inexorable advance of technology brings a world of employment-by-choice closer to reality. Population growth is slowing worldwide thanks to increasing affluence. For once we find much of our industry—like cars, airplanes, computers, and appliances—becoming more efficient over time, not less. Our most industrialized countries already have more than enough resources and technology to meet the fundamental desires of their populace—subsistence, transportation, communication, and recreation. Since we already have proven the practicality of an industrial base large enough to satisfy the entire population, it becomes mostly an issue of optimization and labor reduction. Assuming we can adopt a better source of energy than fossil fuels, and assuming materialism hasn't been ordained the state religion by then, I doubt this century will end without reaching the point where we can offload enough of our menial work onto computers and machines that we don't mind doing the remainder. It might not be a Star Trek techno-utopia, but it would solve a lot of problems.
-
**(If an employee is particularly valuable, they should be paid more now, not promised pensions twenty, thirty, forty years down the line. If the employee is smart, they'll invest the money wisely. If they're not smart, at least the safety net means they won't be sleeping in the gutter. In either case, you won't see the triune problems of employees twiddling their thumbs until their pensions mature, companies unwilling to fire underperforming executives because they don't want to pay their golden parachutes, and the financial ruin of victims of Enron-type collapses.)
To be fair, Chinese property rights are slowly improving, and compulsory purchase (in one form or another) is fairly common worldwide. After all, you've got to build bypasses...
Robot... BAD!
The ISRO mentions a "large altitude error"; I'm no rocket scientist, but if I had to guess I'd say that the first stage stopped thrusting evenly, causing the GSLV to veer off course and the errant rocket was destroyed for safety reasons. Or the resulting torque from the offset thrust vector tore the second stage off.
There are also reports of locals finding hunks of charred reindeer throughout the region, but I'd chalk that up to coincidence.
There's a lot of things that won't run under Rosetta. Besides, Rosetta was emulating a RISC architecture on higher-powered CISC chips. This would be emulating a CISC architecture on lower-powered RISC chips. Good luck.
But Windows' main (and practically lone) selling point is that it works with all your old software. If they rewrite it for ARM, it may say "Windows" on it but it won't run your apps or play your games.
And I'm sure users will enjoy discovering that after they buy "Windows" tablets and netbooks.
That's actually a common trait among woo-woo.
I'd go with the Flintstones sound effects; the xylophone tiptoe noise for < 10km/h, the running noise for acceleration, and the braking noise for, well, braking.
If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you can hear examples of all three in the first 60 seconds of this clip. And please get off my lawn.
http://www.cooltownstudios.com/2008/03/31/pub-on-wheels
But what will you do when spammers train their bots to make automated identifications of galaxies or exoplanets?
They're very generous about it: As soon as you plant a flag, it's yours.
In the future it would be nice if sign makers were required to include a data matrix in some corner, and put various translations into an online database. That way, any device with the most rudimentary camera and data service could translate it accurately, and it would be a lot cleaner than putting multilingual signs everywhere.
"I said we should host Wikipedia, you idiot!"
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