The PS4 is also shipping with a camera with a mike. Sony may be also planning the same DRM. There is also the possibility that publishers will withhold games from the PS4 unless it has DRM similar to Steam.
Enforcement of the contracts Apple wrote would be government action. The government is sueing so it doesn't have to enforce anti consumer contracts. If Apple wants to fix prices they can do so without the force of law behind them.
Artist without a publisher are making lots of money. They can now get 70% royalty instead of a 10-15% royalty and be just a available as Harry Potter to the consumer.
It is a valid point. Harry Potter ebook's were only sold recently. But they have been pirated for years. Any idiot can cut the spine off a hardback and feed the pages through $90 scanner/printer.
A bigger waste of money is getting a degree in a field that you will wind up hating. Do you really think this kid who has trouble with things beyond long division is going to enjoy programming? I suppose it is possible. But he should see a red flag that he doesn't like the things his proffesor and fellow students like.
Programming is about understanding and manipulating symbols in complex systems. Your using the same parts of the brain in differential equations that you use when debugging a program. If you don't like the advanced math then this may not be the field for you.
The whole point of living in remote areas is to get away from civilization. If you want infrastructure live in a town. Leave the remote areas alone and enjoy them for what they are.
In high school I took a math course that required graphing calculators. The course tought simple programs to graph curves. Wasn't long before I was doing more complex stuff. Its a shame smart phones don't come with a programming app pre installed.
Not talking about the goal of doing it. Just stating it is possible to do server side stuff. Simcity just botched it. They either A didn't budget enough for servers, or B did too much on the server end. I have no idea why your talking about disk space. Disk space is irrelevant for these applications. The idea is you do a complex calculation and send the result. The primary problem with all of this is that developers have enough trouble using all the cpus. You should only start offloading things to the cloud once you have enough threading to use all cpus of an 8 core processor near max. I think they demod something with fish. Fish are a good example. Each fish is its own thread. So you can imagine 100 cpus controlling the pathing of fish. All the threads reacting to x,y position info sent to the cloud. This flew over the head of lots of people on the internet. We have seen fish move based on player position before in N64 games. But there the calculation was done on a single cpu.
I think it depends on the company doing it. World of Warcraft likely does server side processing. Simcity was just a botched attempt to do what mmo do.
Director Richard Ellings, Deputy Director Roy
Kamphausen, Casey Bruner, John Graham, Creigh Agnew, Meredith Miller, Clara Gillispie, Sonia
Luthra, Amanda Keverkamp, Deborah Cooper, Karolos Karnikis, Joshua Ziemkowski, and Jonathan
Walton.
I wish news articles put faces these types of outrages. The above people are the commission.
but when what customers find reasonable is set by what the production cost is
I don't agree with the above statement. Most of the time customers have no idea what the production cost is. Customers base their decisions about price based on utility and competition. If they can get the same effect with something cheaper then the price is too high. New patent protected electronics can have a high price because of the artificial scarcity imposed by the patent. Or the price is high because the customer is looking for a status symbol. They are spending money on status not utility.
For some people that will be offset by the fact that ebooks are smaller than paperbacks and can be purchased at 1am on a Sunday. Think gas station prices versus super market prices. Or vending machine prices versus super market prices. There will also always be some books that are cheaper than ebooks. At some point physical book stores need to get rid of books that don't sell. So they slash prices below cost and eat the loss so they can put new product on the shelves. Digital stores never have an inventory problem.
Capitalism is about profit. Specifically, maximizing it.
That is a nice Straw man you got there. Setting your prices as high as possible is not the same as setting your prices to maximize profit. Lowering prices can lead to more sales resulting in more profit. Free Market Capitalism is about letting supply and demand dictate where the price will be. Apple has attempted to abuse contract law to have the government enforce a price control. Anti Trust laws are about enforcing Free Market Capitalism. They are there prevent control of supply and to prevent price manipulation. What Apple is pushing is Crony Capitalism.
Probably because from Apple's perspective, all Apple did was let the publishers set their own book prices.
If you go open a physical book and look at the inside cover you will see something like the following: MSRP $19.99
MSRP stands for Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. It is a suggested price. The seller can sell below this. (stores will slap a 30% off sticker on the book) Legally, suggesting a price is different than enforcing a price with a contract. They don't set prices on physical books because there is case law saying that is illegal. Basically this issue has already been through the courts.
Not really. Same amount of mass up there as there was before. The utility of the satellite was low to begin with. Its whole purpose was to allow their politicians to say Ecuador has a space program. They can continue to do that as long as the satellite is in orbit. Not like they need those pictures or music.
Some people recieving a disibility check from the federal goverment can lose benifits if they recieve too much income. The system is set up with the assumption that lots of people are faking thier illness. So you have bored people voluntearing at places like goodwill. These jobs are sometimes part of treatment programs.
People were planning to trade in their XBox360 for credit towards and XBox One. For many types of games it won't matter. Most single player games you finish and then sell anyways. It will matter for games you can put hundreds of hours into.(RPGs, Sports, Shooters) It will matter for music games where purchase music tracts.(Rockband, Rocksmith, Just Dance) It will mater for games where you create things.(Minecraft, Little Big Planet)
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At the start of every trial they have enter a plea. It can be guilty or not guilty. The 5th doesn't protect you from that.
The PS4 is also shipping with a camera with a mike. Sony may be also planning the same DRM. There is also the possibility that publishers will withhold games from the PS4 unless it has DRM similar to Steam.
It also doesn't explain why even numbers would be missing. Or why the bell curve in his final graph would be skewed.
Enforcement of the contracts Apple wrote would be government action. The government is sueing so it doesn't have to enforce anti consumer contracts. If Apple wants to fix prices they can do so without the force of law behind them.
Artist without a publisher are making lots of money. They can now get 70% royalty instead of a 10-15% royalty and be just a available as Harry Potter to the consumer.
The Department of Justice is not seeking financial damages from Apple if the government wins the case.
http://www.tuaw.com/2013/06/03/apple-doj-ebook-price-fixing-trial-begins-today/
Not really a shakedown for bribes. Your forgetting government power also include contract law. Apple was seeking to control prices with contracts. If the courts enforced those contracts then they would be shutting down competition.
It is a valid point. Harry Potter ebook's were only sold recently. But they have been pirated for years. Any idiot can cut the spine off a hardback and feed the pages through $90 scanner/printer.
A bigger waste of money is getting a degree in a field that you will wind up hating. Do you really think this kid who has trouble with things beyond long division is going to enjoy programming? I suppose it is possible. But he should see a red flag that he doesn't like the things his proffesor and fellow students like.
Programming is about understanding and manipulating symbols in complex systems. Your using the same parts of the brain in differential equations that you use when debugging a program. If you don't like the advanced math then this may not be the field for you.
The whole point of living in remote areas is to get away from civilization. If you want infrastructure live in a town. Leave the remote areas alone and enjoy them for what they are.
For once I agree with the UN.
I don't think it should ever get so easy as to to allow machines making the kill decision without a human in the loop.
The target is in the loop. Those targets were asking for it if you ask me. Beep Boop Beep
The manufacturers probably already make them do this, though perhaps less to reduce future harm and more to keep secrets.
Nope they self destruct so more robots need to be manufactured and sold.
In high school I took a math course that required graphing calculators. The course tought simple programs to graph curves. Wasn't long before I was doing more complex stuff. Its a shame smart phones don't come with a programming app pre installed.
Or they could just use dogs, or security guards, or coat the carriages in something that resists spray paint.
Not talking about the goal of doing it. Just stating it is possible to do server side stuff. Simcity just botched it. They either A didn't budget enough for servers, or B did too much on the server end. I have no idea why your talking about disk space. Disk space is irrelevant for these applications. The idea is you do a complex calculation and send the result. The primary problem with all of this is that developers have enough trouble using all the cpus. You should only start offloading things to the cloud once you have enough threading to use all cpus of an 8 core processor near max. I think they demod something with fish. Fish are a good example. Each fish is its own thread. So you can imagine 100 cpus controlling the pathing of fish. All the threads reacting to x,y position info sent to the cloud. This flew over the head of lots of people on the internet. We have seen fish move based on player position before in N64 games. But there the calculation was done on a single cpu.
I think it depends on the company doing it. World of Warcraft likely does server side processing. Simcity was just a botched attempt to do what mmo do.
Director Richard Ellings, Deputy Director Roy Kamphausen, Casey Bruner, John Graham, Creigh Agnew, Meredith Miller, Clara Gillispie, Sonia Luthra, Amanda Keverkamp, Deborah Cooper, Karolos Karnikis, Joshua Ziemkowski, and Jonathan Walton.
I wish news articles put faces these types of outrages. The above people are the commission.
but when what customers find reasonable is set by what the production cost is
I don't agree with the above statement. Most of the time customers have no idea what the production cost is. Customers base their decisions about price based on utility and competition. If they can get the same effect with something cheaper then the price is too high. New patent protected electronics can have a high price because of the artificial scarcity imposed by the patent. Or the price is high because the customer is looking for a status symbol. They are spending money on status not utility.
For some people that will be offset by the fact that ebooks are smaller than paperbacks and can be purchased at 1am on a Sunday. Think gas station prices versus super market prices. Or vending machine prices versus super market prices. There will also always be some books that are cheaper than ebooks. At some point physical book stores need to get rid of books that don't sell. So they slash prices below cost and eat the loss so they can put new product on the shelves. Digital stores never have an inventory problem.
Capitalism is about profit. Specifically, maximizing it.
That is a nice Straw man you got there. Setting your prices as high as possible is not the same as setting your prices to maximize profit. Lowering prices can lead to more sales resulting in more profit. Free Market Capitalism is about letting supply and demand dictate where the price will be. Apple has attempted to abuse contract law to have the government enforce a price control. Anti Trust laws are about enforcing Free Market Capitalism. They are there prevent control of supply and to prevent price manipulation. What Apple is pushing is Crony Capitalism.
Probably because from Apple's perspective, all Apple did was let the publishers set their own book prices.
If you go open a physical book and look at the inside cover you will see something like the following: MSRP $19.99
MSRP stands for Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. It is a suggested price. The seller can sell below this. (stores will slap a 30% off sticker on the book) Legally, suggesting a price is different than enforcing a price with a contract. They don't set prices on physical books because there is case law saying that is illegal. Basically this issue has already been through the courts.
Not really. Same amount of mass up there as there was before. The utility of the satellite was low to begin with. Its whole purpose was to allow their politicians to say Ecuador has a space program. They can continue to do that as long as the satellite is in orbit. Not like they need those pictures or music.
Some people recieving a disibility check from the federal goverment can lose benifits if they recieve too much income. The system is set up with the assumption that lots of people are faking thier illness. So you have bored people voluntearing at places like goodwill. These jobs are sometimes part of treatment programs.
Is there any tax breaks for hiring people with autism? I am too cynical.
People were planning to trade in their XBox360 for credit towards and XBox One. For many types of games it won't matter. Most single player games you finish and then sell anyways. It will matter for games you can put hundreds of hours into.(RPGs, Sports, Shooters) It will matter for music games where purchase music tracts.(Rockband, Rocksmith, Just Dance) It will mater for games where you create things.(Minecraft, Little Big Planet)