If after say 30-40 years from the date of copyright, the material is no longer available for purchase to the common man (Easy to do via digital distribution for movies/songs/etc atleast), the copyright is declared invalid?
Toasters are no longer simple mechanical devices for a reason. If an "appliance" concept really worked, all you'd need is a 555 timer chip and a variable resistor. There hasn't been a toaster that simple in almost 2 decades! Why? Because even the simplest task the human mind can possibly imagine, the most uniform and consistent task a human can imagine, still has too much variability and uncertainty in it.
The "appliance" market in domestic products is DEAD. We don't have single-purpose kiosks that look one thing up, we don't use PDAs, I don't even remember the last time I saw a shop selling single-function clockwork alarm clocks. I think it was some time in the early 70s. Appliances are a failure. People WANT general purpose tools, not over-specialized ones, because you can make the tool work the way YOU work, you don't have to work the way the tool does.
Dont assume what happens near you is what happens in the entire world
The company is charging extra if customers use a service thats cheaper for the company Doesnt this have a massive chance of backfiring by a large proportion of people actually walking into and clogging up stores to pay their bills in person? Or are phone bills so high in US that $2 is an insignificant percentage?
Arent online payments actuallt cheaper for them? They need a small team of highly paid people instead of thousands of people across the country to collect cheques from drop boxes and cash at stores. If they have 1 person per store to collect cash, wouldnt they have to increase the no. by a lot to make up for the extra load created by this fee?
I would think its better for HIB if the people who would have paid a very small amount pirate it instead
Atleast they will save on the overheads Though I dont know about their costs, so cant say what that amount would be Any idea how much it actually costs them for the processing+Bandwidth+costs of keeping the accounts per bundle to breakeven?
Considering the fact that there are NO technical issues with having multiple independant windows on the screen at a single point, why would MS make the Metro UI in the way they have now instead of apps just using the fullscreen mode in normal windows (like some apps already do, games and browsers (F11),etc) Wouldnt it have been better to have Metro apps running in self contained "windows" which you could maximise/fullscreen as you wanted
I meant "The features of teracopy" The program has existed since Vista atleast (maybe earlier) features such as queuing copies, not running 2 simultaneous operations from the same disk if one is maxing out the read speed, an adjustable buffer, failing from a copy gracefully, pause and resume function, identifying if the source and destination are the same or different device,etc were never in Windows
That was what my (admittedly short) experience with Win 8 seemed to saw Unless I moved apps to the desktop app, I was unable to have more than 1 onscreen at a time. Had to swap the whole app in and out of view
Perhaps I'll try it out again
But, are the users who prefer to have say, a PDF or browser window taking up one half of the desktop and say VS taking up the other half, reading reference material and trying it out practically Or VLC(or any other video player) and a web browser open side by side,etc or even a web browser and a chat client a real minority?
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And how many they've cancelled without the majority of internet users finding out
If after say 30-40 years from the date of copyright, the material is no longer available for purchase to the common man (Easy to do via digital distribution for movies/songs/etc atleast), the copyright is declared invalid?
That it is missing from Steam
One of their assumptions was that 5mbps was the AVERAGE download speed worldwide
Toasters are no longer simple mechanical devices for a reason. If an "appliance" concept really worked, all you'd need is a 555 timer chip and a variable resistor. There hasn't been a toaster that simple in almost 2 decades! Why? Because even the simplest task the human mind can possibly imagine, the most uniform and consistent task a human can imagine, still has too much variability and uncertainty in it.
The "appliance" market in domestic products is DEAD. We don't have single-purpose kiosks that look one thing up, we don't use PDAs, I don't even remember the last time I saw a shop selling single-function clockwork alarm clocks. I think it was some time in the early 70s. Appliances are a failure. People WANT general purpose tools, not over-specialized ones, because you can make the tool work the way YOU work, you don't have to work the way the tool does.
Dont assume what happens near you is what happens in the entire world
How does it compare to rail/car/ship travel?
The company is charging extra if customers use a service thats cheaper for the company
Doesnt this have a massive chance of backfiring by a large proportion of people actually walking into and clogging up stores to pay their bills in person?
Or are phone bills so high in US that $2 is an insignificant percentage?
Arent online payments actuallt cheaper for them?
They need a small team of highly paid people instead of thousands of people across the country to collect cheques from drop boxes and cash at stores.
If they have 1 person per store to collect cash, wouldnt they have to increase the no. by a lot to make up for the extra load created by this fee?
Both are sliding
My speakers are non functional.
TL;DL version will be equally good
true, but thats only IF the downloaders are seeding as well. Most people will just limit upload to 1-2kBps and stop when the DL completes
They webseed the torrents, so still are paying for the bandwidth I believe
But hansamurai's comment makes sense
I would think its better for HIB if the people who would have paid a very small amount pirate it instead
Atleast they will save on the overheads
Though I dont know about their costs, so cant say what that amount would be
Any idea how much it actually costs them for the processing+Bandwidth+costs of keeping the accounts per bundle to breakeven?
How do you submit without hitting preview?
I only get "Preview","Quote parent" and "cancel" buttons
Considering the fact that there are NO technical issues with having multiple independant windows on the screen at a single point, why would MS make the Metro UI in the way they have now instead of apps just using the fullscreen mode in normal windows (like some apps already do, games and browsers (F11),etc)
Wouldnt it have been better to have Metro apps running in self contained "windows" which you could maximise/fullscreen as you wanted
2010 does suck though
The file menu takes up the entire screen for one
I meant "The features of teracopy"
The program has existed since Vista atleast (maybe earlier)
features such as queuing copies, not running 2 simultaneous operations from the same disk if one is maxing out the read speed, an adjustable buffer, failing from a copy gracefully, pause and resume function, identifying if the source and destination are the same or different device,etc
were never in Windows
Windows 8 has essentially integrated Teracopy into the OS
s/saw/say
That was what my (admittedly short) experience with Win 8 seemed to saw
Unless I moved apps to the desktop app, I was unable to have more than 1 onscreen at a time. Had to swap the whole app in and out of view
Perhaps I'll try it out again
Thats a new and interesting perspective
Unfortunately metro apps dont really agree
Even unity which everyone hates for some reason is better than Win8
My college labs, getting upgraded next semester to i3's with 4GB though
Those were toy programs, but the experience was still painful
But, are the users who prefer to have say, a PDF or browser window taking up one half of the desktop and say VS taking up the other half, reading reference material and trying it out practically
Or VLC(or any other video player) and a web browser open side by side,etc
or even a web browser and a chat client
a real minority?
Still dont understand why they put the windows concept in a separate app, and converted most of the OS to a single app on screen format