"As I've said before, the traditional business model has to change rapidly to ensure that our journalistic businesses can return to their old margins of profitability," Murdoch said. "Quality journalism is not cheap, and an industry that gives away its content is simply cannibalizing its ability to produce good reporting."
The traditional business model doesn't need to change, it needs to die. The vast majority of people are not going to pay when they know they can get it for free elsewhere. All it takes is one hold out, and suddenly the pay-for-play model is out of business as the majority goes to the free site and pay sites are left with their minute loyalist groups.
News isn't an exclusive commodity; every major news organization has essentially the same story packaged a different way. What little that actually IS exclusive isn't enough for most people to want to buy a subscription, and bombarding people with ads only pisses them off and makes them look elsewhere or install an adblock service. Go back to the drawing board people. It's time to come up with a brand new model of business.
So... They want to find a non-addictive treatment for a condition the patient will have to treat for the rest of his life? Am I the only one who sees that as ridiculous? Why not just get a prescription for a nicotine patch and be done with it?
Yes, the headline of the article proved to me: "Scary ancient spiders revealed..." Very scientific.
And is it just me, or do they look more like ticks than spiders?
I wonder how many people got duped before someone noticed it was fake. You just know it happened, but no nerd is willing to take that kind of hit to their pride by fessing up.
I think it's safe to say that in the "create a need" category of product, there is a threshold of what most people are willing to dupe themselves into. I think we should call it the 'segway point'.
And let's be honest here. If you're lazy enough to spend 5 grand to not walk, you're going electric cart. Fuck standing.
Can someone explain to me what the point of this is removed/not removed thing is? I seemed to have missed it.
I'm not a fan of IE, so I came up with the novel solution of not using IE. Wow, problem solved.
Nay my friend, give them bologna. Even the hardiest technician can be brought to tears by a disk drive full of luncheon meat. If applied to a hard drive, then... who knows? Entire data centers brought to its' knees.
Absolutely true, but I would bet money that even though this is a case of obvious parental negligence (on the part of letting the kid play the game and not paying enough attention to let their car get taken for a ride), and even though the game has an 'M' rating, and even though Rockstar has never even hinted at GTA being suitable for children, advocacy groups are going to go apeshit and the whole restrictions/ban on games flame war and sue-fest will start all over again. Where the hell is the advocacy group for personal and parental responsibility?
With appropriate fuel reprocessing, nuclear has the potential for the LEAST environmental impact of any power source including wind (kills birds, spoils view), solar (takes up large land areas), and hydro (kills fish, prevents return to spawning grounds).
Emphasis on with. How often are proper disposal and reprocessing procedures ignored or cut to save time and money? The amount of damage that can be done with improper disposal is enormous.
I'd be comfortable with nuclear energy if they could develop a method to neutralize the radiation. The real problem here is storage. Even properly reprocessed and stored material is still dangerous. We have tons and tons of materials with centuries of half-life left before they become inert, and some types more than 1000 years. What man-made material lasts for centuries? Certainly not concrete, which is the material of choice right now. And insofar the best method of disposal is to dig a really, really deep hole and hope the earth doesn't shift in the meantime. For all the benefits of nuclear power, there are areas that just need more work before we start making even more plants.
Shouldn't something be said as to why these parents feel compelled to share photos of themselves breastfeeding their kids? I've got no problem with a mom breastfeeding her kid in public - perfectly natural and the kid needs to eat and all - but last time I checked you couldn't stream a webcam from MySpace or Facebook. So these women are intentionally taking pictures of themselves breastfeeding and then posting it online. Not saying it's right or wrong, but it seems a little strange to me they couldn't wait until after mealtime for a photo op.
I understand that mutilation and bastardization of languages is how languages evolve, but it will be a cold, dark day indeed when n3t5p34k becomes accepted as it's own language. The grammatical rules alone... the horror...
I'd much prefer it go the way of Ebonics, and be kept as an extremely irritating language variant.
I believe "stuff that matters" is an entirely subjective term. In the short time I've been reading/. I've found that no matter the topic, it's followed by 1000 replies of OMGWTFBBQ bastardizations of the original blurb where no one has RTFA and everyone claims to be right. I think the question you're really trying to ask is: 'Is this "stuff that matters" really going to be interesting enough for me to bitch about it to others?'
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The traditional business model doesn't need to change, it needs to die. The vast majority of people are not going to pay when they know they can get it for free elsewhere. All it takes is one hold out, and suddenly the pay-for-play model is out of business as the majority goes to the free site and pay sites are left with their minute loyalist groups.
News isn't an exclusive commodity; every major news organization has essentially the same story packaged a different way. What little that actually IS exclusive isn't enough for most people to want to buy a subscription, and bombarding people with ads only pisses them off and makes them look elsewhere or install an adblock service. Go back to the drawing board people. It's time to come up with a brand new model of business.
So... They want to find a non-addictive treatment for a condition the patient will have to treat for the rest of his life? Am I the only one who sees that as ridiculous? Why not just get a prescription for a nicotine patch and be done with it?
The problem is that you need jailbroken iphone, which wont be so easy for average joe.
With the purported 4mil instances of Cydia out there already, it must not be too hard.
When all else fails, send in the dinosaurs.
Agreed. This isn't news, it's common knowledge. All Blizzard fans know not to get excited about their games until after the 3rd delay.
Yes, the headline of the article proved to me: "Scary ancient spiders revealed..." Very scientific.
And is it just me, or do they look more like ticks than spiders?
more importantly, can you zoom in?
I wonder how many people got duped before someone noticed it was fake. You just know it happened, but no nerd is willing to take that kind of hit to their pride by fessing up.
I think it's safe to say that in the "create a need" category of product, there is a threshold of what most people are willing to dupe themselves into. I think we should call it the 'segway point'.
And let's be honest here. If you're lazy enough to spend 5 grand to not walk, you're going electric cart. Fuck standing.
Can someone explain to me what the point of this is removed/not removed thing is? I seemed to have missed it. I'm not a fan of IE, so I came up with the novel solution of not using IE. Wow, problem solved.
I guess that puts Sony's warnings about using a PlayStation as a missile guidance system into perspective.
Nay my friend, give them bologna. Even the hardiest technician can be brought to tears by a disk drive full of luncheon meat. If applied to a hard drive, then... who knows? Entire data centers brought to its' knees.
Wonderful! Now my microwave can't spy on my when I raid the fridge for a midnight snack.
...Word-of-mouth marketing works.
...list of tech vendors their readers think will fail, falter, or be sold off in 2009.
Nice of them to include "falter" in their list. In this financial climate it makes it about impossible for their "predictions" to fail.
Indeed. This thing makes an opossum looks like a sexy beast.
Absolutely true, but I would bet money that even though this is a case of obvious parental negligence (on the part of letting the kid play the game and not paying enough attention to let their car get taken for a ride), and even though the game has an 'M' rating, and even though Rockstar has never even hinted at GTA being suitable for children, advocacy groups are going to go apeshit and the whole restrictions/ban on games flame war and sue-fest will start all over again. Where the hell is the advocacy group for personal and parental responsibility?
Trust me, it can easily become a huge problem if you haven't thought through a laser-targeted organizational system.
Or he could just buy a hard drive.
So, what happens to all the music people already bought? Will Apple auto-magically convert it to DRM-free with an iTunes update?
With appropriate fuel reprocessing, nuclear has the potential for the LEAST environmental impact of any power source including wind (kills birds, spoils view), solar (takes up large land areas), and hydro (kills fish, prevents return to spawning grounds).
Emphasis on with. How often are proper disposal and reprocessing procedures ignored or cut to save time and money? The amount of damage that can be done with improper disposal is enormous.
I'd be comfortable with nuclear energy if they could develop a method to neutralize the radiation. The real problem here is storage. Even properly reprocessed and stored material is still dangerous. We have tons and tons of materials with centuries of half-life left before they become inert, and some types more than 1000 years. What man-made material lasts for centuries? Certainly not concrete, which is the material of choice right now. And insofar the best method of disposal is to dig a really, really deep hole and hope the earth doesn't shift in the meantime. For all the benefits of nuclear power, there are areas that just need more work before we start making even more plants.
Shouldn't something be said as to why these parents feel compelled to share photos of themselves breastfeeding their kids? I've got no problem with a mom breastfeeding her kid in public - perfectly natural and the kid needs to eat and all - but last time I checked you couldn't stream a webcam from MySpace or Facebook. So these women are intentionally taking pictures of themselves breastfeeding and then posting it online. Not saying it's right or wrong, but it seems a little strange to me they couldn't wait until after mealtime for a photo op.
I believe there's a Soviet Russia joke in here somewhere... But seriously, how does their "crash-proof" car stop another car from crashing into it?
I understand that mutilation and bastardization of languages is how languages evolve, but it will be a cold, dark day indeed when n3t5p34k becomes accepted as it's own language. The grammatical rules alone... the horror...
I'd much prefer it go the way of Ebonics, and be kept as an extremely irritating language variant.
I believe "stuff that matters" is an entirely subjective term. In the short time I've been reading /. I've found that no matter the topic, it's followed by 1000 replies of OMGWTFBBQ bastardizations of the original blurb where no one has RTFA and everyone claims to be right. I think the question you're really trying to ask is: 'Is this "stuff that matters" really going to be interesting enough for me to bitch about it to others?'
Fill it with internet memes.