My point is that how do they expect to sell games in countries that have average monthly salary of $800 pre tax for $59+?
Because I live in a country with such prices and salaries. No one in their right mind would buy a game for 5% of their salary, I doubd they would lower the price with draconian DRM. Sopre costs here same as in Germany.
The main problem is that you are not allowed to verify the quality of the product you pay for. If you do not like some physical item you bought, you can easily take it back to the store and get your money back.
With software, movies and music you are stuck. For centuries great artists would get their money from sponsors that happen to like their work, now mediocre artists ask a lot of money for their "art". While it works with paintings and books, to some extent, it does not work with software and movies. If you buy a ticket to a movie in a cinema, you cannot walkout of the movie and demand your money back, because the movie is utter crap. Thus you subsidize the mediocre and bad artists.
If we equate watching a movie or playing a computer game to eating(consuming) at a restaurant, you are basically allowed to not pay any money for badly made food in a restaurant, even if you have taken a bite out of it.
You cannot imagine how many games I have bought that were utter crap. Yet their developers got money from me. Yet, if I write bad code at my workplace I am expected to spend my personal time to fix it. Not where is the fairness in that?
Yeah, and should we mention the news piece that said that IBM was licensing the Oracle compatibility from EnterpriseDB.
Oracle just bought a company that not only owns MySQL, but is also heavily invested in PostgreSQL. Sun has a bunch of people working on PostgreSQL.
Comparing System z9 and Sun's M9000. M9000 looks like a joke. Even HP systems aren't close enough. Both Sun's and HP's systems look like glorified Celeron servers, compared to System z.
It's just incredible how much data z9 and z10 can crunch.
Most opponents ARE "hysterical", that live not far from a more-than-any-other-nuclear-power-plant radioactive coal power plant.
Knowing a quite a lot of Ukrainians, stare wildly at any of those "opponents". Because Ukrainians are pro nuclear power, even after Chernobyl.
Nuclear power is one of the least expensive power sources over when you take into account the number of years it will serve and the nuclear fuel is relatively cheap. The non marked up price difference between coal and nuclear is something about 4 times. Nuclear is cheaper.
Actually English is rather poor on sounds. The fact, that you can express approximate sounds using LATIN letters has no relation to English.
And talking about Russian, you have no idea how much Russians incorporate foreign words int Russian language.
English is less probable to switch or incorporate any foreign words, since it is lingua franca.
Ok, what about plain old mathematics and logic?
Let me split it up:
A) $100 is very low, when:
- The artist does not play the instruments for his personal, non financial, benefit
- The artist does not play at public events, free or otherwise
- The artist records only one album with software
- The software is not used for anything else, other than recording the album
- The artist does not do ANYTHING except record the album
- The artist's time is valued significantly over the average per hour pay
B) $100 is about right:
- The artist does recording in his off work time
- The artist plays instruments, instead of going to the psychiatrist(very real situation)
- The artist records more that that one single album
- The software and hardware capital costs are already recouped
Does Nokia even have CDMA phones!?!?!?
And I don't believe that Nokia is even targeting US. China and India will be the biggest mobile phone growth markets now.
Sure US will get their Nokias, but I don't think that US is their target market.
I don't assume, I know.
Caveat, I live in Europe, where giving a bad rate will loose all of the customers.
We actually had number one mobile operator(carrier for you Americans) loose 15% of subscribers, because of one single plan.
Knowing Nokia and their paranoia, you will probably have to attend a super secret key signing party. Where into a video camera stuffed room people enter in pairs only, no more than 4 people can be there at a time and both parties have to enter the room using doors on opposing sides. Just to get a certificate signed:)
At one financial institution it was even mandated that Linux be tested before any other Unix because of the cost savings.
Because some financial institutions actually are there to count the money. I had a lot of people in the financial sector, who were not technologically educated, tell me to go with Linux and ditch Windows. And to add a bit of frosting, people in the financial sector are more open to contributing software to F/OSS and release internal stuff as OSS, since it might lessen the workload on developers.
On point #2: To be correct, health care system is not only doctors and hospitals(what you probably meant by health care system). It includes education for healthy living, witch US lacks very much. In general, US lacked any health awareness for a long time and you are overcompensating now.
I am European and I am comparing multiple European countries to Colorado, where I lived for a while. And my friends say that in other states there is a bigger issue with obesity.
The problem is that the government is taking numbers from a statistical research paper, that was commissioned by a biased entity.
We all know, that statistics tend to sway towards the point of view of the paying party.
And then we get a problem with Wikipedia Source paradox. The state takes numbers from a biased corporate study and present's them as fact, then that entity will say that "According to the government..." and present that study as official government sponsored study.
Patents are application of ideas (just like pharma patent for viagra: idea=boner, implementation=specific chemical compound). Copyrights protect implementation only.
And yet the United States of America emerged as the most wealthy and dominant power in the world AFTER WW1 and WW2. After those 2 wars everybody owed US a lot of money.
railroads were funded *privately* not publicly. And now that rail has been taken-over by government, it's constantly on the verge of bankruptcy. Ditto the government-run post office.
I will be corrected if I am wrong. But isn't US postal service a non profit seeking organization, that sets it's service prices just to cover expenses? And when you don't target profit, you are by definition "on the verge of bankruptcy", so is any other 0 profit seeking entity.
Yet, now no company is willing to invest in seemingly dead end applied research. And all the thanks to the power of the quarterly earnings and fast ROI demanding investors.
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My point is that how do they expect to sell games in countries that have average monthly salary of $800 pre tax for $59+?
Because I live in a country with such prices and salaries. No one in their right mind would buy a game for 5% of their salary, I doubd they would lower the price with draconian DRM. Sopre costs here same as in Germany.
The main problem is that you are not allowed to verify the quality of the product you pay for. If you do not like some physical item you bought, you can easily take it back to the store and get your money back.
With software, movies and music you are stuck. For centuries great artists would get their money from sponsors that happen to like their work, now mediocre artists ask a lot of money for their "art". While it works with paintings and books, to some extent, it does not work with software and movies. If you buy a ticket to a movie in a cinema, you cannot walkout of the movie and demand your money back, because the movie is utter crap. Thus you subsidize the mediocre and bad artists.
If we equate watching a movie or playing a computer game to eating(consuming) at a restaurant, you are basically allowed to not pay any money for badly made food in a restaurant, even if you have taken a bite out of it.
You cannot imagine how many games I have bought that were utter crap. Yet their developers got money from me. Yet, if I write bad code at my workplace I am expected to spend my personal time to fix it. Not where is the fairness in that?
Yeah, and should we mention the news piece that said that IBM was licensing the Oracle compatibility from EnterpriseDB.
Oracle just bought a company that not only owns MySQL, but is also heavily invested in PostgreSQL. Sun has a bunch of people working on PostgreSQL.
Comparing System z9 and Sun's M9000. M9000 looks like a joke. Even HP systems aren't close enough. Both Sun's and HP's systems look like glorified Celeron servers, compared to System z.
It's just incredible how much data z9 and z10 can crunch.
Read the post, he does not need superior, he needs cheaper version of Oracle RAC.
However any floating point operations make the T2000 look like Pentium 2.
Most opponents ARE "hysterical", that live not far from a more-than-any-other-nuclear-power-plant radioactive coal power plant.
Knowing a quite a lot of Ukrainians, stare wildly at any of those "opponents". Because Ukrainians are pro nuclear power, even after Chernobyl.
Nuclear power is one of the least expensive power sources over when you take into account the number of years it will serve and the nuclear fuel is relatively cheap. The non marked up price difference between coal and nuclear is something about 4 times. Nuclear is cheaper.
Unless the artist promised a huge cut off the settlement deal or court fine :)
Corruption works both ways. See Chodorkovsky for example.
Actually English is rather poor on sounds. The fact, that you can express approximate sounds using LATIN letters has no relation to English.
And talking about Russian, you have no idea how much Russians incorporate foreign words int Russian language.
English is less probable to switch or incorporate any foreign words, since it is lingua franca.
Ok, what about plain old mathematics and logic?
Let me split it up:
A) $100 is very low, when:
- The artist does not play the instruments for his personal, non financial, benefit
- The artist does not play at public events, free or otherwise
- The artist records only one album with software
- The software is not used for anything else, other than recording the album
- The artist does not do ANYTHING except record the album
- The artist's time is valued significantly over the average per hour pay
B) $100 is about right:
- The artist does recording in his off work time
- The artist plays instruments, instead of going to the psychiatrist(very real situation)
- The artist records more that that one single album
- The software and hardware capital costs are already recouped
When did they get a patent on software and patent trolling in Europe!? Is it still 2009?!
Does Nokia even have CDMA phones!?!?!?
And I don't believe that Nokia is even targeting US. China and India will be the biggest mobile phone growth markets now.
Sure US will get their Nokias, but I don't think that US is their target market.
I don't assume, I know.
Caveat, I live in Europe, where giving a bad rate will loose all of the customers.
We actually had number one mobile operator(carrier for you Americans) loose 15% of subscribers, because of one single plan.
Oh, I am not exaggerating. I was at one of those "parties", had to escort my colleague.
Knowing Nokia and their paranoia, you will probably have to attend a super secret key signing party. Where into a video camera stuffed room people enter in pairs only, no more than 4 people can be there at a time and both parties have to enter the room using doors on opposing sides. Just to get a certificate signed :)
He is forgetting that Nokia is Finnish. And we all know who else is Finnish :)
Aaaa zo ze Shermans have taken ove' your military communications? Zat ist newz to me :)
Because some financial institutions actually are there to count the money. I had a lot of people in the financial sector, who were not technologically educated, tell me to go with Linux and ditch Windows. And to add a bit of frosting, people in the financial sector are more open to contributing software to F/OSS and release internal stuff as OSS, since it might lessen the workload on developers.
On point #2: To be correct, health care system is not only doctors and hospitals(what you probably meant by health care system). It includes education for healthy living, witch US lacks very much. In general, US lacked any health awareness for a long time and you are overcompensating now.
I am European and I am comparing multiple European countries to Colorado, where I lived for a while. And my friends say that in other states there is a bigger issue with obesity.
That is true. I use P2P to download World of Warcraft patches, the Blizzard patch downloader uses it actualy. So I use P2P, but absolutely legally.
The problem is that the government is taking numbers from a statistical research paper, that was commissioned by a biased entity.
We all know, that statistics tend to sway towards the point of view of the paying party.
And then we get a problem with Wikipedia Source paradox. The state takes numbers from a biased corporate study and present's them as fact, then that entity will say that "According to the government..." and present that study as official government sponsored study.
Patents are application of ideas (just like pharma patent for viagra: idea=boner, implementation=specific chemical compound). Copyrights protect implementation only.
And yet the United States of America emerged as the most wealthy and dominant power in the world AFTER WW1 and WW2. After those 2 wars everybody owed US a lot of money.
I will be corrected if I am wrong. But isn't US postal service a non profit seeking organization, that sets it's service prices just to cover expenses? And when you don't target profit, you are by definition "on the verge of bankruptcy", so is any other 0 profit seeking entity.
Yet, now no company is willing to invest in seemingly dead end applied research. And all the thanks to the power of the quarterly earnings and fast ROI demanding investors.