I think you're right, and companies that do fly in the face of the new age are just begging to be killed off mercilessly. Look at today's/. article about the CDC in Canada rocking the boat and annoying the encumbents.
I'd like to find out how Brittish radio has been going with their new method of making tracks available as soon as they are aired on radio, rather than the previous minimum four weeks later that was found to cause people to find illegal copies: convenience is king.
The biggest issue is availability. There are so many times where I have wanted to pay hard-earned cash for product only to be knocked back with 'not available in your region' insanity. Thanks to being able to stream the same stuff fromYouTube from the 'official channel' makes this even more obnoxious.
The solution is simple: if you're going to release something, it must be available everywhere at the same time. Also, offer it for free with no DRM with the option of paying a reasonable sum and people will pay for it. I know this as I have been involved in the independant music business over here for nearly a decade now.
People want stuff to be convenient, regardless of price. Currently, piracy is the more convenient option for many situations. Make your product convenient and you will win.
Finally, there is a large portion of the market who do not have the ability to spend money on entertainment product. This is usually due to their being under sixteen years old and not eligible for credit cards and the like. These people are often the very ones that spread the awareness of your product furthest (just look at how McDonalds, for example, abuses such influence on a child's family and friends).
This whole argument is a stupid one: one group feels entitled to money, the other feels entitled to culture. The second group will always win.
According to TFA's comments, the Busybox replacement under discussion is Toybox, written by a former maintainer of Busybox. It cannot be clean room, whether or not that matters.
It's mostly because they're shipping an almost insignificant number of units to Australia in comparison to those shipped to the US. To the order that one retailer in America would probably order more in total than all of Australia's retailers put together.
It was Facebook telling me I'd been tagged in some photos. They solicited the information from the users they already had and then sought to widen their net even further. I'd been shown Facebook months before that happened and until then had happily avoided it. Now there are 'Like' buttons on as much of the internet as Google's Ads.
Good to see this is getting some wider exposure! They used to send a courtesy mail to tell you they had your information and suggest you get an account so you can see it. Do they not still do that?
If you don't want them building models of you, don't use the internet.
Do you seriously believe that not choosing to have an account protects you at all? Do you not see all the Facebook hooks everywhere? And no, blocking their domain is not a reasonable solution for the masses, and still won't prevent your details from entering their database.
Amiga Hardware Reference Manual: knowing how your program operates in physical reality will change your perception of how your code should best be structured. It will also open your mind to multiple processes running on multiple devices whilst sharing resources efficiently such as to allow real-time performance.
Market share is slowly trending up in an ever-expanding market. 1% is still many millions of users. It's not as though the results would be that much different, causing people to flood to the platform, surely?
Zelda did this. It's a little obnoxious with Navi popping up all the time when you're already going, but when you plug the 64 in for the first time in years and she says "hey, listen" and tells you who to talk to to progress the story to the next event, it's awesome!
(Almost) every time someone complains about articles posted on Slashdot having some form of suspected unimportance to the community here or 'uninformedness' in general, I find that it's useful to read the article and subsequent comments and ideological warfare in order to prepare for when those real-life ideological zealots present their arguments in this kind of upon-a-pedestal fashion: be informed against the deluge!
Back in primary school after a request to not do something, it was often the recourse of "No, it's a free country!". It was always a pleasure then to point out that "We're in Australia, not in America."
(mostly over the fact we haven't actually got a dusty document that states we are in fact a free society, apparently you cant be free without one)
I kind of like the idea of 'the right to all which hasn't had such right retracted' over what appears to be 'you have these explicit rights and we'll stomp on the rest if we please' and then stomping on the explicitly-granted rights, too...
Forget ergonomics! Your second point was my first thought: the only time I see my mouse is when I first sit down. Someone will come up with something useful for it, but there's no longer any money in it...
iPhones don't work 'out-of-the-box': you need to connect them to iTunes first. All other phones you can start making calls, etc., before you've finished signing the paperwork.
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I think you're right, and companies that do fly in the face of the new age are just begging to be killed off mercilessly. Look at today's /. article about the CDC in Canada rocking the boat and annoying the encumbents.
I'd like to find out how Brittish radio has been going with their new method of making tracks available as soon as they are aired on radio, rather than the previous minimum four weeks later that was found to cause people to find illegal copies: convenience is king.
The biggest issue is availability. There are so many times where I have wanted to pay hard-earned cash for product only to be knocked back with 'not available in your region' insanity. Thanks to being able to stream the same stuff fromYouTube from the 'official channel' makes this even more obnoxious.
The solution is simple: if you're going to release something, it must be available everywhere at the same time. Also, offer it for free with no DRM with the option of paying a reasonable sum and people will pay for it. I know this as I have been involved in the independant music business over here for nearly a decade now.
People want stuff to be convenient, regardless of price. Currently, piracy is the more convenient option for many situations. Make your product convenient and you will win.
Finally, there is a large portion of the market who do not have the ability to spend money on entertainment product. This is usually due to their being under sixteen years old and not eligible for credit cards and the like. These people are often the very ones that spread the awareness of your product furthest (just look at how McDonalds, for example, abuses such influence on a child's family and friends).
This whole argument is a stupid one: one group feels entitled to money, the other feels entitled to culture. The second group will always win.
According to TFA's comments, the Busybox replacement under discussion is Toybox, written by a former maintainer of Busybox. It cannot be clean room, whether or not that matters.
"Jumping on one foot" is normally called "hopping".
"Variety spice" sounds promiscuous...
It's mostly because they're shipping an almost insignificant number of units to Australia in comparison to those shipped to the US. To the order that one retailer in America would probably order more in total than all of Australia's retailers put together.
It was Facebook telling me I'd been tagged in some photos. They solicited the information from the users they already had and then sought to widen their net even further. I'd been shown Facebook months before that happened and until then had happily avoided it. Now there are 'Like' buttons on as much of the internet as Google's Ads.
Good to see this is getting some wider exposure! They used to send a courtesy mail to tell you they had your information and suggest you get an account so you can see it. Do they not still do that?
If you don't want them building models of you, don't use the internet. Do you seriously believe that not choosing to have an account protects you at all? Do you not see all the Facebook hooks everywhere? And no, blocking their domain is not a reasonable solution for the masses, and still won't prevent your details from entering their database.
Looks like I'm going to have to start my own hardware company. With blackjack, etc.
Are Microsoft's customers the OEMs, or consumers. If the former, what incentives would OEMs have to pass the decision on to consumers?
Amiga Hardware Reference Manual: knowing how your program operates in physical reality will change your perception of how your code should best be structured. It will also open your mind to multiple processes running on multiple devices whilst sharing resources efficiently such as to allow real-time performance.
Market share is slowly trending up in an ever-expanding market. 1% is still many millions of users. It's not as though the results would be that much different, causing people to flood to the platform, surely?
Zelda did this. It's a little obnoxious with Navi popping up all the time when you're already going, but when you plug the 64 in for the first time in years and she says "hey, listen" and tells you who to talk to to progress the story to the next event, it's awesome!
(Almost) every time someone complains about articles posted on Slashdot having some form of suspected unimportance to the community here or 'uninformedness' in general, I find that it's useful to read the article and subsequent comments and ideological warfare in order to prepare for when those real-life ideological zealots present their arguments in this kind of upon-a-pedestal fashion: be informed against the deluge!
Works out to be one new release Wii game every two-ish months for me.
Which is great for laundering!
Back in primary school after a request to not do something, it was often the recourse of "No, it's a free country!". It was always a pleasure then to point out that "We're in Australia, not in America."
I kind of like the idea of 'the right to all which hasn't had such right retracted' over what appears to be 'you have these explicit rights and we'll stomp on the rest if we please' and then stomping on the explicitly-granted rights, too...
Fedora 15 Alpha has a "force fallback to 2.3" option and will do so automatically if no composite modes are available.
...but it's not available in your region. I try to give you my money and you won't take it, and you wonder why?!
Fine by me. My mouse cursor resides in white space until I'm ready to click. Nervous habit.
Forget ergonomics! Your second point was my first thought: the only time I see my mouse is when I first sit down. Someone will come up with something useful for it, but there's no longer any money in it...
So, because they're not written down, they don't have them?
iPhones don't work 'out-of-the-box': you need to connect them to iTunes first. All other phones you can start making calls, etc., before you've finished signing the paperwork.