Didn't work for DIVX, won't work for this. My hope is that someone puts a lot of money into this and it bankrupts them real real bad. That's the only thing these people will listen to. Money.
Not an expert by any means but Nintendo probably wanted the spotlight to itself. Honestly, everyone is talking about Xbox vs. PS3 --- Nintendo can wait a few weeks/months and release info on the Revolution once PS3/Xbox talks get a bit stale.
My question is if Nintendo and Sony are going to have U.S. launch dates at around the same time as Japan, or is the PS3 going to be out months and months before, like the PS2?
Yes, except that doesn't benefit the company any. If they ship 50,000 units of Fad Toy 5, and sell it for $15 each, then there's not enough Fad Toy 5s to go around. So now on eBay they cost $50.
Guess what. Fad Toy 5's manufacturer doesn't get more than the 15.
Say they ship 100,000 units, and sell it for $15 each, then they will make twice as much money. It might only sell for $17 on eBay. But the company is better off.
The marketing practice is something that is actual, but doesn't matter to toy manufacturers (unless they have the perfect timing of getting rid of scarcity two weeks before the holidays, and no one I know of has done that yet).
I would have to agree. They are atrocious. Whoever is helping promote Firefox/Mozilla doesn't know what they are talking about. First, a full-page ad in the New York Times won't be read by that many people. That money could've been used to get some stories or PR to be run in AP and a thousand small local papers in the "technology" section. The NYT ad was a waste of money.
These ads, on the other hand, are even worse. They don't explain what Firefox is, they don't talk about it's advantages, and are therefore completely irrelevant. (Compare this to the AOL with Spamblocker buffet line ad, which is a lot better, even if the product isn't). Worse, they're not even funny. And then to top it all off, you try "viral marketing" them on a bunch of blogs --- these are people that already know about Firefox.
I can guarantee that infomercials running in the morning advertising Firefox for $4.95 would be loads more succesful than this crap.
Well, if they can launch it early, they will launch it early. It's simply stupid for them to wait around before releasing the console if it's truly ready. They can test out their supply chains, and if a console is released in September, shortages in October won't be as bad as shortages in November and December. Nintendo also has a history (SNES, N64) of releasing systems not right before Christmas. That's the smart play anyway. Release something in the summer, by the holiday you will have at least a few good games out.
Unfortunately there are some sites where I still need to use IE for work, whether or not I want to. The issue is when I am browsing the internet with IE I feel like a lost tourist driving around the bad part of town with my windows only partially rolled up. Sure, if I am smart I can avoid trouble, but you just never know.
No, they just rate it low because the price they (may) be paying will be a slow/non-perfect developer. The ideal is "Hey, let's find the retired millionaire whiz and have him help out on a couple of things." In reality, the opposite extreme is you find the college aged whiz kid who disappears for three months because of terms or a big important project or he quit school.
While not similar work, I find this all the time in the graphic design field. You find a lot of people who ask for a "custom logo for my new website" and will pay paltry sums ($20, $200) when the real value of a logo (or a good designer's time) is worth a lot more than that.
I would imagine that putting low bounties on something is going to backfire. To someone who earns a living doing task X, spending 20 hours of their time helping out on OSS Project Y is going to be just difficult whether or not you pay. These projects need to un-monetize the incentives. Offering $100 for something that takes a lot of hours isn't going to be a big draw.
Of course, the bigger the project the less of a monetary incentive might be necessary. Ask me to create a logo for your company and get paid $50, I'll pass. Ask me to do the next logo for Firefox 1.5, and I don't need $50, I'll do it for free. (Note I am not comparing my work to Burka & Desroches, or saying the logo needs a replacement, just using Firefox as an example).
Of course, even with an OSS project, you can use free market concepts. The "price" of your product is people's time and resources as they download & learn your product. If you have informed a good number of people about your product and they are not willing to give their time to learn it, it may be because something better already exists. That's one reason why someone's new CD ripper project may not be that popular, or why your Java tetris clone is not being downloaded. It's not really "needed". Or at least, not yet.
I really don't mean to troll or flame, and I don't see a problem with people getting together on something for the sake of learning and/or collaborating. But before your five team members pool together $500 to take your project to the next level, take some time to consider if it is really realyl worth it.
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"
And here I thought Google did no evil.
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Although I'm not defending the mistake in the article, it makes sense for Google to go after Windows users. Not only are they the largest share of the market, they are the people that you need to convince to try other products. Once Google can control a critical mass they can make their customers aware that their email, office, photo, and games all work on "the internet" and you don't need Microsoft to do that.
This reminds me of Sun's "network" arguments from 5-6 years ago. Looks like they were ahead of their time.
That's pretty much the easiest solution. I have everything sorted into 5 basic genre umbrellas: Rock-Pop-Alt-Country\ Rap-HipHop-RnB-Reggae\ D ance-Techno-Electronic\ Jazz-Classical-Internatio nal-Vintage\ Scores-Soundtracks-Words\
Then after that into albums. Artists-Album-Year\Track-Artist-Song.mp3
If an artist has more than one album, they get their own folder. I generally group related artists together (Dave Matthews Band, Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds). There are a few artists that could be under either umbrella but for the most part you will know where everyone goes. For any live performances I like to append the date. So on Prince's concert on 21 March 1981, the filename for his performance of "Head" is 10-Prince-Head_032181.mp3
What's the catch? You use a utility like Nipkick's nmp3 that catalogs the name and location of all your mp3 files (or write your own). Anytime you are at a command line interface (or in nmp3's case, IRC), you type/mp3 followed by a search string. For example,/mp3 eric will bring up anything from Eric B. & Rakim to Eric Clapton to any song with the word "America" in it. At that point you type/mp3 06 and it plays song #6 on the list (06-Stevie_Wonder-Jesus_ Children_of_America). Not everyone has mIRC, but I am sure a lot of people on/. can script something very similar and do it very quickly, and I'm sure other clients have similar scripts.
I find typing something is always quicker than scrolling through anything. But that's just me.
That's an extremely valid point. Many RPTVs have reasonably good viewing angles, but if your setup is the TV and couch(es) on the longer side of the room, you will have that problem. I don't have many friends, so we all get a good view.
Well, not sure what you mean by CRT but I would say the compelling reason is size. CRTs can only be so big. If you want to go bigger, you can go with what I call the "MTV Cribs" TVs, plasma/LCD, etc. or you can go with a quality RPTV or a projector. I have yet to see a plasma or LCD that has a better quality picture than a decent RPTV.
I find it much easier to just alter Wikipedia history entries that time traveling. And just like time traveling, someone comes along and "fixes" my mistake. Sigh.
As someone who went to Dell to save $40 but now has spent the past three hours on the phone trying to return a damaged product, I completely agree with you. Service still counts, and even if Netflix (or GreenCine) is a bit more expensive, if the service is better, people will buy your product. That applies to almost any business. As much as things have become commodities, there is always going to be a niche for someone who does things well. That's not Blockbuster.
Also, a lot of their links work. For example the "stickers" page now links to Google logos, where you can see their logos from early on. Some of them are less than... artful.
I love generalizations in articles. I tried the free Rhapsody player for 30 days back when they had it for free -- this was summer of 2002 approximately. I showed it to two people, both of whom still subscribe to this day. By those standards, Rhapsody is used by 67% of people who try it.
My day would go by a lot faster if I read news without having to look around the gigantic chip on the writer's shoulder.
The music at the beginning of the trailer is Kasabian's song "Club Foot" --- and yes, the movie looks hot. Although the young-girl-fighting-people-using-Buffy-techniques- thing was a bit odd. Another downside: I have no idea what the movie is about. Although that could be good too.
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Perhaps on consoles. But look at puzzle games online and you will see a whole lot of them are extremely innovative, and a lot of them are American. I think there's more of a focus on big huge new games from American companies, who perhaps don't focus on innovative gameplay as much as they could.
It looks like the filmmakers were as faithful to the book (or the ideas in the book) as possible. It genuinely seems that they tried their best. I would love to see a magical new classic come out of this, although I am not really sure of how well this will do. I personally don't know ANYTHING about this series, but will still see the movie in the theatre.
Here's my wishes of good luck to everyone that was involved and that your hard work shows up on screen. I'd like nothing more than more original work to be succesful in the film industry.
I have gotten girls of all ages really really interested in the DOA fighting series, as sexist/fetishist as they might be. I think it's because DOA works at a much slower pace and is a bit more interactive than other fighting games.
Still trying to have the SO get better at Halo...:)
The incentive is still there -- for the to remain in business.
If you are Friendly Neighborhood Bank (A Division of FinancialFirst GlobalCon Holdings Unlimited), will you use Choicepoint or someone that has 100% perfect records?
That's like saying, "Well, if the company doesn't host their own servers, how could they trust a hosting company? What does the hosting company care?"
They are performing a service and are being paid for it.
I noticed that too for a client that I set up. All the "searches" we were getting were coming from very very odd sites, that I can't imagine anyone would ever visit. (These are the sites spammers mention when they say "Add your site to over 45,000 search engines!"). Stupid sites like QuestSale.com or ABC911.com.
Needless to say we are not paying any more money to LookSmart.
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Didn't work for DIVX, won't work for this. My hope is that someone puts a lot of money into this and it bankrupts them real real bad. That's the only thing these people will listen to. Money.
Not an expert by any means but Nintendo probably wanted the spotlight to itself. Honestly, everyone is talking about Xbox vs. PS3 --- Nintendo can wait a few weeks/months and release info on the Revolution once PS3/Xbox talks get a bit stale.
My question is if Nintendo and Sony are going to have U.S. launch dates at around the same time as Japan, or is the PS3 going to be out months and months before, like the PS2?
The PSP isn't a home console. That's like saying "Which desktop will be the most popular this season?" "Apple's Powerbook!"
Yes, except that doesn't benefit the company any. If they ship 50,000 units of Fad Toy 5, and sell it for $15 each, then there's not enough Fad Toy 5s to go around. So now on eBay they cost $50.
Guess what. Fad Toy 5's manufacturer doesn't get more than the 15.
Say they ship 100,000 units, and sell it for $15 each, then they will make twice as much money. It might only sell for $17 on eBay. But the company is better off.
The marketing practice is something that is actual, but doesn't matter to toy manufacturers (unless they have the perfect timing of getting rid of scarcity two weeks before the holidays, and no one I know of has done that yet).
I would have to agree. They are atrocious. Whoever is helping promote Firefox/Mozilla doesn't know what they are talking about. First, a full-page ad in the New York Times won't be read by that many people. That money could've been used to get some stories or PR to be run in AP and a thousand small local papers in the "technology" section. The NYT ad was a waste of money.
These ads, on the other hand, are even worse. They don't explain what Firefox is, they don't talk about it's advantages, and are therefore completely irrelevant. (Compare this to the AOL with Spamblocker buffet line ad, which is a lot better, even if the product isn't). Worse, they're not even funny. And then to top it all off, you try "viral marketing" them on a bunch of blogs --- these are people that already know about Firefox.
I can guarantee that infomercials running in the morning advertising Firefox for $4.95 would be loads more succesful than this crap.
Well, if they can launch it early, they will launch it early. It's simply stupid for them to wait around before releasing the console if it's truly ready. They can test out their supply chains, and if a console is released in September, shortages in October won't be as bad as shortages in November and December. Nintendo also has a history (SNES, N64) of releasing systems not right before Christmas. That's the smart play anyway. Release something in the summer, by the holiday you will have at least a few good games out.
Unfortunately there are some sites where I still need to use IE for work, whether or not I want to. The issue is when I am browsing the internet with IE I feel like a lost tourist driving around the bad part of town with my windows only partially rolled up. Sure, if I am smart I can avoid trouble, but you just never know.
Firefox at least doesn't give me that feeling.
No, they just rate it low because the price they (may) be paying will be a slow/non-perfect developer. The ideal is "Hey, let's find the retired millionaire whiz and have him help out on a couple of things." In reality, the opposite extreme is you find the college aged whiz kid who disappears for three months because of terms or a big important project or he quit school.
While not similar work, I find this all the time in the graphic design field. You find a lot of people who ask for a "custom logo for my new website" and will pay paltry sums ($20, $200) when the real value of a logo (or a good designer's time) is worth a lot more than that.
I would imagine that putting low bounties on something is going to backfire. To someone who earns a living doing task X, spending 20 hours of their time helping out on OSS Project Y is going to be just difficult whether or not you pay. These projects need to un-monetize the incentives. Offering $100 for something that takes a lot of hours isn't going to be a big draw.
Of course, the bigger the project the less of a monetary incentive might be necessary. Ask me to create a logo for your company and get paid $50, I'll pass. Ask me to do the next logo for Firefox 1.5, and I don't need $50, I'll do it for free. (Note I am not comparing my work to Burka & Desroches, or saying the logo needs a replacement, just using Firefox as an example).
Of course, even with an OSS project, you can use free market concepts. The "price" of your product is people's time and resources as they download & learn your product. If you have informed a good number of people about your product and they are not willing to give their time to learn it, it may be because something better already exists. That's one reason why someone's new CD ripper project may not be that popular, or why your Java tetris clone is not being downloaded. It's not really "needed". Or at least, not yet.
I really don't mean to troll or flame, and I don't see a problem with people getting together on something for the sake of learning and/or collaborating. But before your five team members pool together $500 to take your project to the next level, take some time to consider if it is really realyl worth it.
I Googled it and it came up with:
"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!"
And here I thought Google did no evil.
Although I'm not defending the mistake in the article, it makes sense for Google to go after Windows users. Not only are they the largest share of the market, they are the people that you need to convince to try other products. Once Google can control a critical mass they can make their customers aware that their email, office, photo, and games all work on "the internet" and you don't need Microsoft to do that.
This reminds me of Sun's "network" arguments from 5-6 years ago. Looks like they were ahead of their time.
That's pretty much the easiest solution. I have everything sorted into 5 basic genre umbrellas:
D ance-Techno-Electronic\o nal-Vintage\
/mp3 followed by a search string. For example, /mp3 eric will bring up anything from Eric B. & Rakim to Eric Clapton to any song with the word "America" in it. At that point you type /mp3 06 and it plays song #6 on the list (06-Stevie_Wonder-Jesus_ Children_of_America). Not everyone has mIRC, but I am sure a lot of people on /. can script something very similar and do it very quickly, and I'm sure other clients have similar scripts.
Rock-Pop-Alt-Country\
Rap-HipHop-RnB-Reggae\
Jazz-Classical-Internati
Scores-Soundtracks-Words\
Then after that into albums.
Artists-Album-Year\Track-Artist-Song.mp3
If an artist has more than one album, they get their own folder. I generally group related artists together (Dave Matthews Band, Dave Matthews, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds). There are a few artists that could be under either umbrella but for the most part you will know where everyone goes. For any live performances I like to append the date. So on Prince's concert on 21 March 1981, the filename for his performance of "Head" is 10-Prince-Head_032181.mp3
What's the catch? You use a utility like Nipkick's nmp3 that catalogs the name and location of all your mp3 files (or write your own). Anytime you are at a command line interface (or in nmp3's case, IRC), you type
I find typing something is always quicker than scrolling through anything. But that's just me.
That's an extremely valid point. Many RPTVs have reasonably good viewing angles, but if your setup is the TV and couch(es) on the longer side of the room, you will have that problem. I don't have many friends, so we all get a good view.
Well, not sure what you mean by CRT but I would say the compelling reason is size. CRTs can only be so big. If you want to go bigger, you can go with what I call the "MTV Cribs" TVs, plasma/LCD, etc. or you can go with a quality RPTV or a projector. I have yet to see a plasma or LCD that has a better quality picture than a decent RPTV.
I find it much easier to just alter Wikipedia history entries that time traveling. And just like time traveling, someone comes along and "fixes" my mistake. Sigh.
Ironic for someone who's username is "Sickness" in German. Maybe it's the diet? :)
As someone who went to Dell to save $40 but now has spent the past three hours on the phone trying to return a damaged product, I completely agree with you. Service still counts, and even if Netflix (or GreenCine) is a bit more expensive, if the service is better, people will buy your product. That applies to almost any business. As much as things have become commodities, there is always going to be a niche for someone who does things well. That's not Blockbuster.
Actually, it's more like:
2) Profit??
Because I doubt they will see more than $10,000 of this iPod tax.
Also, a lot of their links work. For example the "stickers" page now links to Google logos, where you can see their logos from early on. Some of them are less than... artful.
I love generalizations in articles. I tried the free Rhapsody player for 30 days back when they had it for free -- this was summer of 2002 approximately. I showed it to two people, both of whom still subscribe to this day. By those standards, Rhapsody is used by 67% of people who try it.
My day would go by a lot faster if I read news without having to look around the gigantic chip on the writer's shoulder.
The music at the beginning of the trailer is Kasabian's song "Club Foot" --- and yes, the movie looks hot. Although the young-girl-fighting-people-using-Buffy-techniques- thing was a bit odd. Another downside: I have no idea what the movie is about. Although that could be good too.
Perhaps on consoles. But look at puzzle games online and you will see a whole lot of them are extremely innovative, and a lot of them are American. I think there's more of a focus on big huge new games from American companies, who perhaps don't focus on innovative gameplay as much as they could.
It looks like the filmmakers were as faithful to the book (or the ideas in the book) as possible. It genuinely seems that they tried their best. I would love to see a magical new classic come out of this, although I am not really sure of how well this will do. I personally don't know ANYTHING about this series, but will still see the movie in the theatre.
Here's my wishes of good luck to everyone that was involved and that your hard work shows up on screen. I'd like nothing more than more original work to be succesful in the film industry.
SSX 3 is definite.
:)
I have gotten girls of all ages really really interested in the DOA fighting series, as sexist/fetishist as they might be. I think it's because DOA works at a much slower pace and is a bit more interactive than other fighting games.
Still trying to have the SO get better at Halo...
The incentive is still there -- for the to remain in business.
If you are Friendly Neighborhood Bank (A Division of FinancialFirst GlobalCon Holdings Unlimited), will you use Choicepoint or someone that has 100% perfect records?
That's like saying, "Well, if the company doesn't host their own servers, how could they trust a hosting company? What does the hosting company care?"
They are performing a service and are being paid for it.
I noticed that too for a client that I set up. All the "searches" we were getting were coming from very very odd sites, that I can't imagine anyone would ever visit. (These are the sites spammers mention when they say "Add your site to over 45,000 search engines!"). Stupid sites like QuestSale.com or ABC911.com.
Needless to say we are not paying any more money to LookSmart.