A) Microsoft handles the Office365 subscription outside of the Apple App Store ecosystem. The iOS Office365 app suite will be free to download, but requires a valid Office365 account login to even work. There are so many apps that already work in this exact way that this must be the "Captain Obvious" answer.
B) Stop bickering over Apple's App Store policies and pricing structure, and go focus all of your development efforts on Android and Windows RT. This is a very risky move with little returns to be had.
Option A is clearly the winner, no debate needed. This is just a corporate pissing contest. Apple knows how strong the iOS app marketplace is, and won't buckle to MS pressure. Sales of Surface have been slow, and Android users are stingy and won't pay out for Office on Android. Microsoft knows this and recognizes that their only hope of selling more than X million copies is through the iOS App Store.
Let me transpose this article to emphasize just how incredibly stupid this submission is:
Hey guys, I'm a game developer and my computer doesn't run things that I need to use to develop games. So I bought a new computer. You see, a computer is a machine that runs software and computes things for you. It has a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor. Some computers are big, but others are small. For instance, the computer I bought has 4GB of memory. That is more memory than other computers that have 2GB. When you buy a computer, it's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need to install the remaining 10% of things that you'll use and change the settings so it runs the way you like it. Computers are so neat.
This article isn't even asking a fucking question. It's just somebody telling the Slashdot crowd what a VPS is. What the fuck?
Made a typo. Ignore my extra zero. "1000 cents" and ".94 cents" respectively when comparing the normal data rate. Still ridiculous at $3300/Mbps. Would you cry over losing a slight edge on a 1000x markup?
As long as they want, assuming they don't take on the accounting practices of the bigger carriers. Companies like Verizon and AT&T make a ridiculous profit on their data service, yet they cry over losing even one cent. Here's my math to back it up.
I was bored one day and decided to do some digging on those data overages the cell phone carriers love to charge. $.10/MB seems like a fairly common rate, but what people don't realize is, that works out to about $33,000 per Mbps per month. The amount of data you can send in one month at a rate of 1Mbps is about 330GB, or 330,000MB. At the overage rate of $.10/MB, that's $33,000 a month. That's a new BMW, every damn month.
I know what you're thinking, though. "Well, it's a penalty. It's supposed to be ridiculously high..." Yeah, that's understandable, but it's not much higher than their normal data rates. Taking Verizon's plans as an example, 1GB is $50/month. 50,000 cents divided by 1024MB is $.48/MB. But that's unfair because that includes unlimited minutes and text messages, so let's consider this - their 2GB plan is $10 more. That's $10/GB. 10000 cents divided by 1024MB is $.094/MB.
9.4 cents per MB regular rate.
10 cents per MB at overage rates.
Either way, we're paying $33,000/Mbps for cellular data service. Do you know what the going rate is for IP transit in the telco industry? At bulk rates, $1-2/Mbps.
tl;dr: T-Mobile can play the Unlimited Data game as long as they want. The cost to them is low, they just choose not to fuck their customers as hard as the big guys do.
Okay, so, £52 in the first week? That's about $83. That's roughly $12/day. In the first week. On a brand new platform.
What the fuck was this guy thinking? That when he hit the magic "Submit" button on the developers portal for the MS App Store, money would start raining down from the ceiling? Did he think scantily clad women would arrive on his doorstep within minutes to personally "massage" him in a hot tub full of champagne?
The title might as well read, "Developer Underwhelmed by Product Success, Blames Everyone Else".
He released the memorandum on his own, totally undermining other staffers and most likely bypassing any sort of vetting, validation, and/or peer review stages. It's naturally in the RSC's best interests to put forth memos and reports that present a consistent argument and (most importantly) don't express opinions in a way that may offend constituents.
While I hate to see them distance themselves from a sane and rational argument for copyright reform, I can't help but think that any other organization would do the same thing when one of their employees decides to go all "cowboy" and fire off memos and reports without organizational consent.
Nothing good has ever come from the commander-in-chief tossing government money back to his buddies (and campaign donors) in industry. My statement applies to this president just as much as it does to those before him.
...and the stock Android browser coming out ahead of desktop favorites...
You mean, people are picking the stock browser over mobile versions of Firefox or Google Chrome? Wow. What could possibly be the meaning of this? Let's deconstruct it and find the real truth in all this...
Oh, here it is. It's a combination of No one cares and the mobile versions suck!
Firefox and Chrome may be competitive browsers in the PC realm, but in their transition to mobile platforms, they're bringing over all that bloat and feature creep and trying to cram it all into a small screen. My Android smartphone has acceptable (but not ideal) battery life when I use the mobile browser for quick things here and there, but when I've tried to use mobile FF/Chrome apps it drops like a rock. I suppose if you sit there tethered into the wall jack you'd be fine, but at that point, why not just whip out your laptop?
This study focuses on "tech" positions (a very broad description) that require a Bachelor's degree. Here's what I'm left wondering after reading this:
Are they adjusting for the fact that a low-skilled tech position (tech support) in 2000 paying $12/hr did not require a Bachelor's, but in the current workforce climate, the same low-skilled tech support job at the same pay rate commonly requires that applicants have "at least" an Associates, but preferably (read: we won't hire you if you don't have) a Bachelor's degree? If this was not adjusted for, then the reason they're seeing diluted wages vs. what they expected is because with that one little change in the requirements for a position, a lot more jobs fit their description now than did jobs in 2000, which adds a lot of low wages to their data set and reduces the overall average wage across the entire IT field.
The Surface commercial was an absolute joke, so I'm not surprised the product itself is rapidly becoming a flop. Dubstep, breakdancers, romantic old people, and crunk girl scouts don't make me want to buy a tablet. The director should have stuck to directing Justin Bieber's music videos. Even if you have to spend all day pandering to shrieking preteens, at least there's money in it.
The assholes you meet are not assholes because they're football players. They're assholes because they're assholes. Perhaps you, sir, are actually the asshole, and they just respond in kind.
There are plenty of very kind and caring people out there who also happen to play football. Come to terms with this and overcome your irrational (but understandable) hate of people who are more talented than you.
You're not legally bound to follow the terms of the EULA unless you accept it and use the software, and by extension, the license it comes with. You can reject the EULA after reading it and uninstall the software, or just not download it in the first place, and that's that.
Everybody could take the time to read all of the inane rambling bullshit that timothy clutters the front page with. Then we'd really be wasting time.
In other news, if you buy a $1 candy bar every Sunday, that's $52 a year! But wait, there's more. If everybody in Detroit, MI bought a candy bar every Sunday, that would be $36,742,420 a year! And if they bought THREE candy bars, then OMG! That's $110,227,260 per year! And OH EM GEE, IF THEY PAID 7% SALES TAX THAT WOULD BE $7,715,908.20 IN TAXES A YEAR FROM CANDY BARS!
All of those companies were doing things that (almost) nobody else was doing at the time of their inception. When 1000 people drop out of college with the exact same "great new idea", 999 people become unemployed and eventually discouraged.
Don't put the idea in someone's head that they should immediately drop out of college if they want to start a "tech company", because nowadays people think "tech company" means "I want to build a website like Flickr but with a red logo instead of a blue one". They also think you can get by by doing what someone else is already doing, only a little differently. This is very, very far from the truth.
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to think up a model on your own, and it needs to be very different from established businesses. You can't just copy-paste a business plan and call yourself an "entrepreneur", and nobody's going to pay you to sit there and wallow in your own perceived greatness. You have to do something that people want to pay for!
The last thing society should be doing is encouraging students with no unique or original ideas to drop out and create the next Pets.com. Encourage students to think of creative solutions to existing problems, not blindly follow the "entrepreneur" fad when they have no creative merit. That's a recipe for unemployment and a very rude awakening.
I have an incurable breathing addiction. I keep holding out for a cure of some kind, but all their proposed treatments seem to have a very high mortality rate.
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How about, because Microsoft doesn't charge a commission to anyone else using the Windows OS?
If they charged everybody else 30% on Windows, then sure, why the fuck not. But they don't. Apple does on iOS. It's a fair and level playing field.
Two possible solutions to this:
A) Microsoft handles the Office365 subscription outside of the Apple App Store ecosystem. The iOS Office365 app suite will be free to download, but requires a valid Office365 account login to even work. There are so many apps that already work in this exact way that this must be the "Captain Obvious" answer.
B) Stop bickering over Apple's App Store policies and pricing structure, and go focus all of your development efforts on Android and Windows RT. This is a very risky move with little returns to be had.
Option A is clearly the winner, no debate needed. This is just a corporate pissing contest. Apple knows how strong the iOS app marketplace is, and won't buckle to MS pressure. Sales of Surface have been slow, and Android users are stingy and won't pay out for Office on Android. Microsoft knows this and recognizes that their only hope of selling more than X million copies is through the iOS App Store.
And yes, I would like fries with that.
This is akin to someone writing into Car & Driver asking,
"HOW TO DRIVE CAR???? PLZ HELP!!"
Sorry, the DNS lines must have gotten crossed. This is actually Yahoo! Answers.
Let me transpose this article to emphasize just how incredibly stupid this submission is:
Hey guys, I'm a game developer and my computer doesn't run things that I need to use to develop games. So I bought a new computer. You see, a computer is a machine that runs software and computes things for you. It has a mouse, a keyboard, and a monitor. Some computers are big, but others are small. For instance, the computer I bought has 4GB of memory. That is more memory than other computers that have 2GB. When you buy a computer, it's maybe 90% set up for you, but you need to install the remaining 10% of things that you'll use and change the settings so it runs the way you like it. Computers are so neat.
This article isn't even asking a fucking question. It's just somebody telling the Slashdot crowd what a VPS is. What the fuck?
McAfee would kill for that.
Made a typo. Ignore my extra zero. "1000 cents" and ".94 cents" respectively when comparing the normal data rate. Still ridiculous at $3300/Mbps. Would you cry over losing a slight edge on a 1000x markup?
As long as they want, assuming they don't take on the accounting practices of the bigger carriers. Companies like Verizon and AT&T make a ridiculous profit on their data service, yet they cry over losing even one cent. Here's my math to back it up.
I was bored one day and decided to do some digging on those data overages the cell phone carriers love to charge. $.10/MB seems like a fairly common rate, but what people don't realize is, that works out to about $33,000 per Mbps per month. The amount of data you can send in one month at a rate of 1Mbps is about 330GB, or 330,000MB. At the overage rate of $.10/MB, that's $33,000 a month. That's a new BMW, every damn month.
I know what you're thinking, though. "Well, it's a penalty. It's supposed to be ridiculously high..." Yeah, that's understandable, but it's not much higher than their normal data rates. Taking Verizon's plans as an example, 1GB is $50/month. 50,000 cents divided by 1024MB is $.48/MB. But that's unfair because that includes unlimited minutes and text messages, so let's consider this - their 2GB plan is $10 more. That's $10/GB. 10000 cents divided by 1024MB is $.094/MB.
9.4 cents per MB regular rate.
10 cents per MB at overage rates.
Either way, we're paying $33,000/Mbps for cellular data service. Do you know what the going rate is for IP transit in the telco industry? At bulk rates, $1-2/Mbps.
tl;dr: T-Mobile can play the Unlimited Data game as long as they want. The cost to them is low, they just choose not to fuck their customers as hard as the big guys do.
...that nobody wants to pay for his game.
Okay, so, £52 in the first week? That's about $83. That's roughly $12/day. In the first week. On a brand new platform.
What the fuck was this guy thinking? That when he hit the magic "Submit" button on the developers portal for the MS App Store, money would start raining down from the ceiling? Did he think scantily clad women would arrive on his doorstep within minutes to personally "massage" him in a hot tub full of champagne?
The title might as well read, "Developer Underwhelmed by Product Success, Blames Everyone Else".
2/10. Good intentional misspelling of Linus's name, but the rest of it just didn't feel natural. Troll harder.
"Please, not in front of the press... until I post it on my blog."
He released the memorandum on his own, totally undermining other staffers and most likely bypassing any sort of vetting, validation, and/or peer review stages. It's naturally in the RSC's best interests to put forth memos and reports that present a consistent argument and (most importantly) don't express opinions in a way that may offend constituents.
While I hate to see them distance themselves from a sane and rational argument for copyright reform, I can't help but think that any other organization would do the same thing when one of their employees decides to go all "cowboy" and fire off memos and reports without organizational consent.
Nothing good has ever come from the commander-in-chief tossing government money back to his buddies (and campaign donors) in industry. My statement applies to this president just as much as it does to those before him.
...and the stock Android browser coming out ahead of desktop favorites...
You mean, people are picking the stock browser over mobile versions of Firefox or Google Chrome? Wow. What could possibly be the meaning of this? Let's deconstruct it and find the real truth in all this...
Oh, here it is. It's a combination of No one cares and the mobile versions suck!
Firefox and Chrome may be competitive browsers in the PC realm, but in their transition to mobile platforms, they're bringing over all that bloat and feature creep and trying to cram it all into a small screen. My Android smartphone has acceptable (but not ideal) battery life when I use the mobile browser for quick things here and there, but when I've tried to use mobile FF/Chrome apps it drops like a rock. I suppose if you sit there tethered into the wall jack you'd be fine, but at that point, why not just whip out your laptop?
Wow, you are getting gray. :)
I figure if the operator was a youngin' he probably wouldn't get the humor in labeling the speed dial "Giddy-up".
John McAfree?
What a clever pun considering the situation. Surely it was intentional!
This study focuses on "tech" positions (a very broad description) that require a Bachelor's degree. Here's what I'm left wondering after reading this:
Are they adjusting for the fact that a low-skilled tech position (tech support) in 2000 paying $12/hr did not require a Bachelor's, but in the current workforce climate, the same low-skilled tech support job at the same pay rate commonly requires that applicants have "at least" an Associates, but preferably (read: we won't hire you if you don't have) a Bachelor's degree? If this was not adjusted for, then the reason they're seeing diluted wages vs. what they expected is because with that one little change in the requirements for a position, a lot more jobs fit their description now than did jobs in 2000, which adds a lot of low wages to their data set and reduces the overall average wage across the entire IT field.
The Surface commercial was an absolute joke, so I'm not surprised the product itself is rapidly becoming a flop. Dubstep, breakdancers, romantic old people, and crunk girl scouts don't make me want to buy a tablet. The director should have stuck to directing Justin Bieber's music videos. Even if you have to spend all day pandering to shrieking preteens, at least there's money in it.
Troll.
The assholes you meet are not assholes because they're football players. They're assholes because they're assholes. Perhaps you, sir, are actually the asshole, and they just respond in kind.
There are plenty of very kind and caring people out there who also happen to play football. Come to terms with this and overcome your irrational (but understandable) hate of people who are more talented than you.
I am even legally allowed to download a pirated version of any software and run it without any type of explicit license.
Let me guess - you live in China?
You're not legally bound to follow the terms of the EULA unless you accept it and use the software, and by extension, the license it comes with. You can reject the EULA after reading it and uninstall the software, or just not download it in the first place, and that's that.
Everybody could take the time to read all of the inane rambling bullshit that timothy clutters the front page with. Then we'd really be wasting time.
In other news, if you buy a $1 candy bar every Sunday, that's $52 a year! But wait, there's more. If everybody in Detroit, MI bought a candy bar every Sunday, that would be $36,742,420 a year! And if they bought THREE candy bars, then OMG! That's $110,227,260 per year! And OH EM GEE, IF THEY PAID 7% SALES TAX THAT WOULD BE $7,715,908.20 IN TAXES A YEAR FROM CANDY BARS!
ERMAHGERD, NERMBERS!
All of those companies were doing things that (almost) nobody else was doing at the time of their inception. When 1000 people drop out of college with the exact same "great new idea", 999 people become unemployed and eventually discouraged.
Don't put the idea in someone's head that they should immediately drop out of college if they want to start a "tech company", because nowadays people think "tech company" means "I want to build a website like Flickr but with a red logo instead of a blue one". They also think you can get by by doing what someone else is already doing, only a little differently. This is very, very far from the truth.
If you want to be a successful entrepreneur, you need to think up a model on your own, and it needs to be very different from established businesses. You can't just copy-paste a business plan and call yourself an "entrepreneur", and nobody's going to pay you to sit there and wallow in your own perceived greatness. You have to do something that people want to pay for!
The last thing society should be doing is encouraging students with no unique or original ideas to drop out and create the next Pets.com. Encourage students to think of creative solutions to existing problems, not blindly follow the "entrepreneur" fad when they have no creative merit. That's a recipe for unemployment and a very rude awakening.
I have an incurable breathing addiction. I keep holding out for a cure of some kind, but all their proposed treatments seem to have a very high mortality rate.