If the answer is 2 or 3 times a year, then the electric car should suit you just fine the vast majority of the time. If the answer is, "very often" then the electric car isn't for you, but it still is perfect for 99.5% of the driving population.
Hint: Get a job in marketing or politics. You take a semi-reasonable assertion, and then follow it up with a very hyberbolic statement including "perfect" and "99.5%" without seemingly any amount of irony.
They could not have that much control over gtkMM, however ancient and unmaintained that code is.
Because all these things are LGPL licensed, they could have the exact same level of control.
And are you insinuating that gtkMM has an ancient and unmaintained code base? Funny that, as it is a heavily auto-generated binding based off of GTK+. The rest of it is still currently maintained, it is based off the latest release of GTK+.
When the GP talks about being *tied* here, they are clearly talking alluding to the fact that the hardware is closed. I actually don't know if this is completely true for the Kindle (has someone hacked the Kindle yet?). But what the poster was alluding to is obvious.
If I can't install Linux or even Rockbox or my own build of Windows CE on the damn thing (because of some as of yet uncracked/unreversed hardware protection mechanism), then you are "tied to Amazon".
There are varying degrees of openness. All these plug computers and things like BeagleBoard represent the extreme of openness (with a lot of vendor documentation), core PC (PCI/VESA graphics only/BIOS) is completely open, all the core stuff is documented, then you have things like my SanDisk MP3 player that are de facto open and the manufacturer while not offering support doesn't have a problem with the hacking community.... On the extreme end you have things like the Nintendo Wii, and Amazon is probably similarly protective of their Kindle. Those companies have active engagement to protect their platform, with a combination of hardware lockout features, and possible legal/social implementation too.
I've actually begun wondering if maybe there are certain individuals who are deliberately trolling Wikipedia by adding [citation needed] in places where it just doesn't belong and then sit around giggling as they read the discussion pages of various articles they've messed with.
Yes. I add them. I also remove them. Another fun thing is adding the [who?] weasel word tag, and notability. I also take certain acronyms and point them to porn titles on the Wiki (they are not scrutinized as much).
Wikipedia is a piece of shit, it is nothing more than an MMORPG that takes itself way too seriously.
You realize that there are people on there that do this shit for some passive-aggressive power-play. But there are those (me at least) that just do it for relaxation. My political alliance is simply the one that is against everyone else on Wikipedia, no exceptions.
Also, just for the record, if I could predict things in general with a coin-flip level of accuracy, I would be fucking ecstatic.
If you honestly can't do this in your head, then get an actual physical coin and carry it with you. On all decision problems you encounter, perform a coin flip. You will get coin flip accuracy for the problem at hand everytime!
Well their logo was quite prominent.
The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, IIRC.
Almost anyone my age in the US remembers things like Number Munchers. Unfortunately "carpet munchers hack" doesn't show up on google.
Honestly, I think your website sucks and I'm very skeptical about your pricing.
$25 for a non-commercial version of an audio editor of all things? For one thing, a short sentence describing the "license" is not helpful at all. Can I sell my audio on a CD to people? What do you mean by "commercial product." I can't reasonably determine the legal difference between the $99 and $25 version one.
I just don't get it. It would seem to me that a lot of people that would be interested in the rather unique way your software does things would be quite skeptical of it in the beginning. Charging $25 and not allowing commercial redistribution of the end products is really just another way for you to get beta-testers that *pay you* for the privilege. If there is any company that could do this, it is probably Apple, and not even they do it too much.
That is the perception I have. If I have your demo, and want to use the software, why do I want to pay $25 for crippleware, that stuff is free.
Your second marketing error is probably that $99 is probably too much money. How did you land on this price point? If it had to do with your costs and what you thought was "fair", then it is most likely wrong. Your price can only be properly determined in terms of your market.
The last program I remember purchasing for personal use was this one: http://www.hamrick.com/
I probably would have paid $20 more for it, but look at that website and the community that uses it and compare it to yours.
Actually, now that I recall, I just purchased a large piano sample set for a few hundred, so I'm not one of these cheap punkass bitches that never spends money on software.
I buy good software, I do audio, your price is too damn high for what it is. Take that as constructive criticism.
Really, look at some other company's pricing plans. There is such as thing as tiered pricing done right. Having a "tier" where the product is essentially useless but costs more than a couple bucks is a joke.
If I pay $99 I do want some kind of support channel. You might be a really conscientious person, but your website does not instill confidence.
Think about it. $99 is for a product. Anyone that told you a lump of code you run through a compiler is the *product* lied. The website, your support channel, they are all part of the product.
Minor nit: I would completely avoid telling people in your manual what they can do in "all legality." Have you consulted lawyers in all the jurisdictions you're distributing your product? Probably no one is going to get sued over that statement in your manual, but remember that when you tell people what they can do in "all legality" in a product's documentation, it can be interpreted as practicing law without a license, and it really is stupid to do anyways.
Being a one-man orchestra is becoming increasingly difficult; I only can devote so much time to marketing, my skills in that department are lacking,
I also question anyone's need for a Spectrogram editor. Instead of needing audio editing tools, you could just, surprise, produce decent audio in the first place. If you used a Kurzweil K-250, it will produce sounds that are *exactly* the same as real instruments, with *no perceptible difference* to anyone. Marvel at my l33t ski11z:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0148.html?m=9
Anyway, you're a punk ass little bitch anyway for not accepting the reality. Why don't you calm down, take a few chill pills, some alkaline water. and about 90 other essential supplements, and in 30-40 years you will enter the singularity. Spectrogram editors for audio will be silly at that point, the machines will edit their spectrograms without help from us!
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God damn it all, you are right and do have a point.
Before twitter there was no effective way to communicate any of the above important messages to the people who needed to know.
You do realize that the verdict on whether to construct a hell for the upcoming Singularity is still out, don't you?
This dual bios thing was a bit of a "fad" around the time period you mention because of the enormous success of the CIH virus at that time. The thought amongst some MOBO manufacturers was that the relatively small additional cost was worth it because there was thought to be a very great future risk of continued CIH infections (which would certainly have been true if Windows 2000 and moreso XP had not replaced the consumer desktop market). And regardless of the uptake of XP, it wasn't too unreasonable to think that some virus writer would update the BIOS destruction style virus for the newer OS.
CIH was nothing more than a seriously destructive prank, which is really at cross purposes with the really useful stuff you can do these days with malware. You can't create a very efficient botnet with fried PCs. And thankfully the CIH "destruction only" prankster types are very few and far between, so this dual BIOS thing kind of died out a couple years later.
It seems that we should have kept the dual BIOS option. This time around, no one is going to try to brick your mobo, they're going to "root" your system in a more headache inducing way that also might be harder to detect.
The cheapass Gigabyte mainboard that I just bought for a backup file server (dual core AMD64) has such a jumper to prevent BIOS flash. So it might not be that uncommon.
Regardless, it is quite clear that with the rapidly Accelerating Returns towards the Singularity we will have nanomachines in as little as 10 that will be able to be injected into the FLASH device and repair the malware damage.
While it is understandable how vessels from different nations may become uncoordinated and end up in occasional accidents, it seems quite impossible for this to just happen to such an impeccably organized organization like the U.S. Navy. This is clearly an awakening of the machines and a convergence towards The Singularity.
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If the answer is 2 or 3 times a year, then the electric car should suit you just fine the vast majority of the time. If the answer is, "very often" then the electric car isn't for you, but it still is perfect for 99.5% of the driving population.
Hint: Get a job in marketing or politics. You take a semi-reasonable assertion, and then follow it up with a very hyberbolic statement including "perfect" and "99.5%" without seemingly any amount of irony.
They could not have that much control over gtkMM, however ancient and unmaintained that code is.
Because all these things are LGPL licensed, they could have the exact same level of control.
And are you insinuating that gtkMM has an ancient and unmaintained code base? Funny that, as it is a heavily auto-generated binding based off of GTK+. The rest of it is still currently maintained, it is based off the latest release of GTK+.
Dumbass...
When the GP talks about being *tied* here, they are clearly talking alluding to the fact that the hardware is closed. I actually don't know if this is completely true for the Kindle (has someone hacked the Kindle yet?). But what the poster was alluding to is obvious.
If I can't install Linux or even Rockbox or my own build of Windows CE on the damn thing (because of some as of yet uncracked/unreversed hardware protection mechanism), then you are "tied to Amazon".
There are varying degrees of openness. All these plug computers and things like BeagleBoard represent the extreme of openness (with a lot of vendor documentation), core PC (PCI/VESA graphics only/BIOS) is completely open, all the core stuff is documented, then you have things like my SanDisk MP3 player that are de facto open and the manufacturer while not offering support doesn't have a problem with the hacking community....
On the extreme end you have things like the Nintendo Wii, and Amazon is probably similarly protective of their Kindle. Those companies have active engagement to protect their platform, with a combination of hardware lockout features, and possible legal/social implementation too.
Thanks for playing.
I've actually begun wondering if maybe there are certain individuals who are deliberately trolling Wikipedia by adding [citation needed] in places where it just doesn't belong and then sit around giggling as they read the discussion pages of various articles they've messed with.
Yes. I add them. I also remove them. Another fun thing is adding the [who?] weasel word tag, and notability. I also take certain acronyms and point them to porn titles on the Wiki (they are not scrutinized as much).
Wikipedia is a piece of shit, it is nothing more than an MMORPG that takes itself way too seriously.
You realize that there are people on there that do this shit for some passive-aggressive power-play. But there are those (me at least) that just do it for relaxation. My political alliance is simply the one that is against everyone else on Wikipedia, no exceptions.
Why should I give a shit anyway?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don't-give-a-fuckism
Could you list here the URLs of some the websites you operate?
Also, just for the record, if I could predict things in general with a coin-flip level of accuracy, I would be fucking ecstatic.
If you honestly can't do this in your head, then get an actual physical coin and carry it with you. On all decision problems you encounter, perform a coin flip. You will get coin flip accuracy for the problem at hand everytime!
Blah, Blah, Blah, blah-de-fricking-blah, Singularity, Buy my fucking supplements you punk ass bitches.Terry Grossman had sex with your wife.
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Well their logo was quite prominent. The Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, IIRC. Almost anyone my age in the US remembers things like Number Munchers. Unfortunately "carpet munchers hack" doesn't show up on google.
$25 for a non-commercial version of an audio editor of all things? For one thing, a short sentence describing the "license" is not helpful at all. Can I sell my audio on a CD to people? What do you mean by "commercial product." I can't reasonably determine the legal difference between the $99 and $25 version one.
I just don't get it. It would seem to me that a lot of people that would be interested in the rather unique way your software does things would be quite skeptical of it in the beginning. Charging $25 and not allowing commercial redistribution of the end products is really just another way for you to get beta-testers that *pay you* for the privilege. If there is any company that could do this, it is probably Apple, and not even they do it too much.
That is the perception I have. If I have your demo, and want to use the software, why do I want to pay $25 for crippleware, that stuff is free.
Your second marketing error is probably that $99 is probably too much money. How did you land on this price point? If it had to do with your costs and what you thought was "fair", then it is most likely wrong. Your price can only be properly determined in terms of your market. The last program I remember purchasing for personal use was this one: http://www.hamrick.com/ I probably would have paid $20 more for it, but look at that website and the community that uses it and compare it to yours. Actually, now that I recall, I just purchased a large piano sample set for a few hundred, so I'm not one of these cheap punkass bitches that never spends money on software.
I buy good software, I do audio, your price is too damn high for what it is. Take that as constructive criticism.
Really, look at some other company's pricing plans. There is such as thing as tiered pricing done right. Having a "tier" where the product is essentially useless but costs more than a couple bucks is a joke.
If I pay $99 I do want some kind of support channel. You might be a really conscientious person, but your website does not instill confidence. Think about it. $99 is for a product. Anyone that told you a lump of code you run through a compiler is the *product* lied. The website, your support channel, they are all part of the product.
Minor nit: I would completely avoid telling people in your manual what they can do in "all legality." Have you consulted lawyers in all the jurisdictions you're distributing your product? Probably no one is going to get sued over that statement in your manual, but remember that when you tell people what they can do in "all legality" in a product's documentation, it can be interpreted as practicing law without a license, and it really is stupid to do anyways.
Being a one-man orchestra is becoming increasingly difficult; I only can devote so much time to marketing, my skills in that department are lacking,
I also question anyone's need for a Spectrogram editor. Instead of needing audio editing tools, you could just, surprise, produce decent audio in the first place. If you used a Kurzweil K-250, it will produce sounds that are *exactly* the same as real instruments, with *no perceptible difference* to anyone. Marvel at my l33t ski11z: http://www.kurzweilai.net/articles/art0148.html?m=9 Anyway, you're a punk ass little bitch anyway for not accepting the reality. Why don't you calm down, take a few chill pills, some alkaline water. and about 90 other essential supplements, and in 30-40 years you will enter the singularity. Spectrogram editors for audio will be silly at that point, the machines will edit their spectrograms without help from us!
God damn it all, you are right and do have a point. Before twitter there was no effective way to communicate any of the above important messages to the people who needed to know. You do realize that the verdict on whether to construct a hell for the upcoming Singularity is still out, don't you?
CPU power doubles about every 18 months (Moores Law)
Moore's Law never claimed this.
Anderson is like Tom Friedman and Ray Kurtzweil, in that he is a messianic
Anderson and Friedman ares fucking imposters though and don't you forget it, punk ass bitch.
Uh, my dad could beat up your dad. And after the Singularity, when he is reanimated, he probably will. Punk ass bitches.
This dual bios thing was a bit of a "fad" around the time period you mention because of the enormous success of the CIH virus at that time. The thought amongst some MOBO manufacturers was that the relatively small additional cost was worth it because there was thought to be a very great future risk of continued CIH infections (which would certainly have been true if Windows 2000 and moreso XP had not replaced the consumer desktop market). And regardless of the uptake of XP, it wasn't too unreasonable to think that some virus writer would update the BIOS destruction style virus for the newer OS. CIH was nothing more than a seriously destructive prank, which is really at cross purposes with the really useful stuff you can do these days with malware. You can't create a very efficient botnet with fried PCs. And thankfully the CIH "destruction only" prankster types are very few and far between, so this dual BIOS thing kind of died out a couple years later. It seems that we should have kept the dual BIOS option. This time around, no one is going to try to brick your mobo, they're going to "root" your system in a more headache inducing way that also might be harder to detect.
The cheapass Gigabyte mainboard that I just bought for a backup file server (dual core AMD64) has such a jumper to prevent BIOS flash. So it might not be that uncommon. Regardless, it is quite clear that with the rapidly Accelerating Returns towards the Singularity we will have nanomachines in as little as 10 that will be able to be injected into the FLASH device and repair the malware damage.
While it is understandable how vessels from different nations may become uncoordinated and end up in occasional accidents, it seems quite impossible for this to just happen to such an impeccably organized organization like the U.S. Navy. This is clearly an awakening of the machines and a convergence towards The Singularity.
The inevitability of The Singularity will bring about near instantaneous adoption of IPv6 as each sentient nanomachine will be uniquely addressable.
You bitches better recognize.