Non-obvoiusness is and important factor. If as novice HS programmer can do it without assistance of any sort beyond knowing how to program, it is pretty obvious.
I'm afraid I am missing the sarcasm if it was present in that post...
You do know that XML Specification defines XML as a tree, a common structure in most (all?) programming languages. It is obvious to anyone even remotely skilled in the art. I wrote an XML editor as a toy project as a freshman in HS that would have violated this patent. I guess I am that much of a genius, or just not as much as a dumbass as you.
**Listens for WOOSHING**
As enjoyable as it is to bash the newspapers for all of their real flaws, I don't understand how people have come to find paywalls outrageous. I really don't. The difference between newspapers and random hearsay is (in the best cases) a lot of effort in developing broad and balanced sources, fact checking, having an editorial process for some degree of fairness and accuracy (as much as that's suffered in the past decade) and generally putting out a "report" on a subject (that's why we call them reporters). That's a lot of hard, often tedious work that is not going to get done well unless someone is paid to do it. And frankly we should all want to pay for that kind of good content to be made, even when we disagree with it.
What newspapers are you reading. None I've ever seen offer anything close to your "best cases" on even a semi-regular basis.
It's become trendy to say that bloggers do much of the work of the media and that is simply delusion. First of all, nearly all blog entries (including a large fraction of those on this site) are built around a link of a publication which employs its writers. Bloggers do a great job adding bits, contextualize and bringing together info, but they are most often not the generators of solid base information they work with. So if we really do lose newspapers we are not going to have the People's Republic of Blogistan stand up and replace them with real reporting, we're just going to have gasbaggery in its place.
Again, what blogs are you reading? Of course there are a lot that are simply trash. They cost nothing to put up and lets any idiot bask in an imagined sense of self-importance. However, there are some that are simply amazing. Try looking for some and your opinion will change quickly.
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My hope is that the newspapers will force the issue on micropayments. I would gladly pay $1, maybe $2 a day for a combination of stories from the Washington Post, NYT, LA Times, my local newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and on occasion some random others that I learned about from some blogger. I absolutely will not pay $20/mo to each of those. So if they can figure out a joint payment scheme that makes sense, I'm all for that. Double bonus points if they can use it to make their archives affordable and not priced for company and institutiional use.
MICROPAYMENTS SUCK!!! They are a huge inefficiency (the mental transaction cost) to the process of getting news because before reading each article you need to consider if the article is worth the 5c or whatever the cost is. However, the solution you propose is call a subscription, which is better but only marginally so. Newspapers have never made money selling subscriptions. The cost of a paper barely covers printing and delivery, if even that. Newspapers made money on advertisements, or more specifically, selling their readers attention. I sincerely hope a bunch of papers start charging. When they go bankrupt soon after, it will put this silly debate to rest. If they all do, they will all go bankrupt and then you will see the smart journalists starting blogs (the good kind, not the bads ones you use to soil the word) and make their money that way.
Name your genre and I'll game you some games supported either by Wine (out-of-the-box, no extensive modifications unless a very detailed tutorial is available online) or within Crossover.
I've managed to run all my peripherals without a problem. Let me know what you're using and I'll point you to the free drivers.
So by your logic, Linux will fail this test if even 1 game you define as popular cannot run on it, even if 99.9999% do? Linux runs many games with a fresh wine install, and many many more with Crossover installed. Sure, then you need to by additional software, but buying windows is significantly more. Once people start moving to Linux, this will be a non-issue since games will be developed with native Linux binaries available.
Assuming accurate enough readings, your complaint is a non-issue. Even without any readings, a very fine-tuned control that allows you to throttle it yourself would be great. This is not for use on a desktop, this is for mobile devices. What is more stressful; waiting an extra second while an app boots and being mildly annoyed before the device throttles up to finish a bit quicker or your battery dying in the middle of an important phone call? I know I'll waste a second for up to 50% more battery life.
That would work great, except that unless the system was specifically designed to do this only 1 person has to see this before someone can write crack to do it.
I did an interesting survey in psych class recently, asking people to rate proposals from 1 (low) to 5 (high) in terms of how much support they gave them. Out of 10 imaginary but realistic proposals, 5 were supported by imaginary members of each party, and 2 sets of surveys were give with only the (R) and (D) replaced. Universally, the (D) proposals had a score of 4.2 and the (R) proposals had a score of 1.7. As long as people refuse to look at anything other than (R) and (D), democracy does not exist and that is unlikely to change until people see the Dems fail. I want nothing more than for this nation to succeed, but it will not do that if 100% of the blame for everything rests at the feet of the Reps even if the Dems do it. Perhaps his statement would have been better stated "If this nation has to fall on hard times because the Dems I hope that the people realise that they are responsible" Hopefully we're wrong and the Dems can fix things, I just don't see it happening.
The 4 gig limit is a result of using unsigned integers to address the ram. It is not something you can just "crack." The 3 app limit will be cracked quickly, probably within few hours of release. It will be called "Windows 7 Ultimate CRACKED!!!!!!.torrent" or something like that. It will likely require a re-install, but you will never have trouble with the 3-app limit again.
Part (not all) of this is because people donate to this particular project. One of the things about directed donations in most countries is that they can only be used for what they are directed towards. If Bill Gates wanted to spend every last penny he had giving every church in the world a solid gold roof, that is what the money would have to go towards if the Church wanted to keep it. There are a lot of environmentalists in the Church, one of the being the pope. This should not surprise you, nor would most Catholics disagree with this decision.
"Criminals" (wrong word, but whatever) have technical means to get around any sort of traffic prioritisation, so it is not an issue for them. A small online book-store, however, would have a hard time competing if its traffic was intentionally delayed since Amazon's traffic were deemed more important (not just that Amazon purchased a faster connection)
Piracy can be countered by adapting your business model to account for it and take advantage of it. Legal or not, ethical or not, it is a market reality. The key is giving people a reason to buy. Not knowing what you develop, it is hard to say exactly how you should do it.
Do you simply code something and release it hoping people pay instead of download it? If so, you add no value that cannot be obtained for free and will have problems competing with piracy, however people that like your products will still buy them since they want you to release updates, bug-fixes, and add new features.
Do you offer support if someone has problems using your software? That can't easily be obtained or offered for free, so charge for it. Perhaps offer live classes for it.
Does your software allow access to a server (like WoW, etc.) or can add-ons or additional items be added like pictures and movies for presentation software? If so, charge a subscription fee for people that want access to a well-indexed, high-quality archive of whatever or want access to the server. People will pay to use your resources if it adds value.
Are there bugs in the software or highly requested features? Let people know that you will add whatever they want in the form or add-ons or build it into the main function if enough money is pledged to that new feature. People will pay if they have software they like that is almost perfect and can be fixed.
Is your software massively popular? If you told me what it was, would I have any clue what you were talking about? TPB et al give YOU for free on thing that you need more than anything else: users willing to try and eventually buy your products and services. Sure you can spend millions on a world-wide ad campaign that somehow targets all the potential users of your software and hope they all decide that yours is the best, but if someone downloads it and likes it, you have a future customer. If that person likes it but wants X feature added, you just started making money from him.
Replace "pirates" with "customers" and focus on adding value and potential future sales instead of on sales you might have lost.
I am watching the video on Linux. Ubuntu at least has a flash player that works perfectly, at least at Pandora, YouTube, Addictinggames.com, and (unfortunatly) the very few flash ads that get past AB+.
As long as people keep repeating and believing this lie, it will continue to be true. Grow some and vote for who you think is best and do your part in getting others to realise there are more than 2 choices.
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Non-obvoiusness is and important factor. If as novice HS programmer can do it without assistance of any sort beyond knowing how to program, it is pretty obvious.
I'm afraid I am missing the sarcasm if it was present in that post...
You do know that XML Specification defines XML as a tree, a common structure in most (all?) programming languages. It is obvious to anyone even remotely skilled in the art. I wrote an XML editor as a toy project as a freshman in HS that would have violated this patent. I guess I am that much of a genius, or just not as much as a dumbass as you. **Listens for WOOSHING**
As enjoyable as it is to bash the newspapers for all of their real flaws, I don't understand how people have come to find paywalls outrageous. I really don't. The difference between newspapers and random hearsay is (in the best cases) a lot of effort in developing broad and balanced sources, fact checking, having an editorial process for some degree of fairness and accuracy (as much as that's suffered in the past decade) and generally putting out a "report" on a subject (that's why we call them reporters). That's a lot of hard, often tedious work that is not going to get done well unless someone is paid to do it. And frankly we should all want to pay for that kind of good content to be made, even when we disagree with it.
What newspapers are you reading. None I've ever seen offer anything close to your "best cases" on even a semi-regular basis.
It's become trendy to say that bloggers do much of the work of the media and that is simply delusion. First of all, nearly all blog entries (including a large fraction of those on this site) are built around a link of a publication which employs its writers. Bloggers do a great job adding bits, contextualize and bringing together info, but they are most often not the generators of solid base information they work with. So if we really do lose newspapers we are not going to have the People's Republic of Blogistan stand up and replace them with real reporting, we're just going to have gasbaggery in its place.
Again, what blogs are you reading? Of course there are a lot that are simply trash. They cost nothing to put up and lets any idiot bask in an imagined sense of self-importance. However, there are some that are simply amazing. Try looking for some and your opinion will change quickly.
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My hope is that the newspapers will force the issue on micropayments. I would gladly pay $1, maybe $2 a day for a combination of stories from the Washington Post, NYT, LA Times, my local newspaper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and on occasion some random others that I learned about from some blogger. I absolutely will not pay $20/mo to each of those. So if they can figure out a joint payment scheme that makes sense, I'm all for that. Double bonus points if they can use it to make their archives affordable and not priced for company and institutiional use.
MICROPAYMENTS SUCK!!! They are a huge inefficiency (the mental transaction cost) to the process of getting news because before reading each article you need to consider if the article is worth the 5c or whatever the cost is. However, the solution you propose is call a subscription, which is better but only marginally so. Newspapers have never made money selling subscriptions. The cost of a paper barely covers printing and delivery, if even that. Newspapers made money on advertisements, or more specifically, selling their readers attention. I sincerely hope a bunch of papers start charging. When they go bankrupt soon after, it will put this silly debate to rest. If they all do, they will all go bankrupt and then you will see the smart journalists starting blogs (the good kind, not the bads ones you use to soil the word) and make their money that way.
Where is the -1: Dumbass mod when you need it...
Name your genre and I'll game you some games supported either by Wine (out-of-the-box, no extensive modifications unless a very detailed tutorial is available online) or within Crossover.
I've managed to run all my peripherals without a problem. Let me know what you're using and I'll point you to the free drivers.
So by your logic, Linux will fail this test if even 1 game you define as popular cannot run on it, even if 99.9999% do? Linux runs many games with a fresh wine install, and many many more with Crossover installed. Sure, then you need to by additional software, but buying windows is significantly more. Once people start moving to Linux, this will be a non-issue since games will be developed with native Linux binaries available.
Assuming accurate enough readings, your complaint is a non-issue. Even without any readings, a very fine-tuned control that allows you to throttle it yourself would be great. This is not for use on a desktop, this is for mobile devices. What is more stressful; waiting an extra second while an app boots and being mildly annoyed before the device throttles up to finish a bit quicker or your battery dying in the middle of an important phone call? I know I'll waste a second for up to 50% more battery life.
That would work great, except that unless the system was specifically designed to do this only 1 person has to see this before someone can write crack to do it.
I did an interesting survey in psych class recently, asking people to rate proposals from 1 (low) to 5 (high) in terms of how much support they gave them. Out of 10 imaginary but realistic proposals, 5 were supported by imaginary members of each party, and 2 sets of surveys were give with only the (R) and (D) replaced. Universally, the (D) proposals had a score of 4.2 and the (R) proposals had a score of 1.7. As long as people refuse to look at anything other than (R) and (D), democracy does not exist and that is unlikely to change until people see the Dems fail. I want nothing more than for this nation to succeed, but it will not do that if 100% of the blame for everything rests at the feet of the Reps even if the Dems do it. Perhaps his statement would have been better stated "If this nation has to fall on hard times because the Dems I hope that the people realise that they are responsible" Hopefully we're wrong and the Dems can fix things, I just don't see it happening.
The 4 gig limit is a result of using unsigned integers to address the ram. It is not something you can just "crack." The 3 app limit will be cracked quickly, probably within few hours of release. It will be called "Windows 7 Ultimate CRACKED!!!!!!.torrent" or something like that. It will likely require a re-install, but you will never have trouble with the 3-app limit again.
Part (not all) of this is because people donate to this particular project. One of the things about directed donations in most countries is that they can only be used for what they are directed towards. If Bill Gates wanted to spend every last penny he had giving every church in the world a solid gold roof, that is what the money would have to go towards if the Church wanted to keep it. There are a lot of environmentalists in the Church, one of the being the pope. This should not surprise you, nor would most Catholics disagree with this decision.
"Criminals" (wrong word, but whatever) have technical means to get around any sort of traffic prioritisation, so it is not an issue for them. A small online book-store, however, would have a hard time competing if its traffic was intentionally delayed since Amazon's traffic were deemed more important (not just that Amazon purchased a faster connection)
Some of the energy can be recovered, but not enough to charge the battery.
Bigger is better but still expensive in the short and mid term, and only windy areas will benefit from them.
Piracy can be countered by adapting your business model to account for it and take advantage of it. Legal or not, ethical or not, it is a market reality. The key is giving people a reason to buy. Not knowing what you develop, it is hard to say exactly how you should do it.
Do you simply code something and release it hoping people pay instead of download it? If so, you add no value that cannot be obtained for free and will have problems competing with piracy, however people that like your products will still buy them since they want you to release updates, bug-fixes, and add new features.
Do you offer support if someone has problems using your software? That can't easily be obtained or offered for free, so charge for it. Perhaps offer live classes for it.
Does your software allow access to a server (like WoW, etc.) or can add-ons or additional items be added like pictures and movies for presentation software? If so, charge a subscription fee for people that want access to a well-indexed, high-quality archive of whatever or want access to the server. People will pay to use your resources if it adds value.
Are there bugs in the software or highly requested features? Let people know that you will add whatever they want in the form or add-ons or build it into the main function if enough money is pledged to that new feature. People will pay if they have software they like that is almost perfect and can be fixed.
Is your software massively popular? If you told me what it was, would I have any clue what you were talking about? TPB et al give YOU for free on thing that you need more than anything else: users willing to try and eventually buy your products and services. Sure you can spend millions on a world-wide ad campaign that somehow targets all the potential users of your software and hope they all decide that yours is the best, but if someone downloads it and likes it, you have a future customer. If that person likes it but wants X feature added, you just started making money from him.
Replace "pirates" with "customers" and focus on adding value and potential future sales instead of on sales you might have lost.
I am watching the video on Linux. Ubuntu at least has a flash player that works perfectly, at least at Pandora, YouTube, Addictinggames.com, and (unfortunatly) the very few flash ads that get past AB+.
... none of the viable alternatives...
As long as people keep repeating and believing this lie, it will continue to be true. Grow some and vote for who you think is best and do your part in getting others to realise there are more than 2 choices.
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