There IS a business case. Which is the lack of books, if nobody pays.
So the 21th century business model: - Present your idea for the book - Get payed by interested persons - Live from that money, write the book. Tell people, when you're running out of money in a transparent way, so they do not feel deceived - Finally publish the book for free.
Face it, digital goods have no inherent worth, their worth is the labor before. So get payed for creating the book, not for selling copies. Of course, this means you need to work for your money as everybody else and cannot live from your bestseller and pass on the rights to your heirs. But the baker cannot copy his bread a million times and then live from the copies, either.
So stop telling immaterial goods (and this is even true for a hardcopy, minus the cost for printing) should cost. The work behind them should cost. And this should have a fixed price, which doesn't increast with more people reading the book.
And the next step then is, to announce your next book, so people who enjoyed the old one without financing can now pay for the next one. The only backdraw: You have to deliver quality. A real fan (for example of a band) pays for all the content as physical media, goes to concerts, etc. and is open to paying for his band, even donating more than needed and enjoys the thought of helping to create the next album.
Another apparent drawback: People with little money are pirating it anyway. But who cares? Not buying because of a lack of money or pirating has the same outcome. And who pirated your content for the last years and now has a well paying position, may be the one with the biggest donation for your next project. Because he was always satisfied.
so they strip tags, which would prevent their copy from loading content like images from the original server? So what? That's needed for operation. And i guess nobody would actually annotate their online banking or webmail pages.
Its for your own profit. The free upgrade will end soon and microsoft doesn't want you to miss the deadline. So its for your own profit, to avoid paying for win 10. Be happy they are helping you to actually use their free upgrade!
nope, it does not. You can have google authenticator for example as hardware device, handy app, app on your pebble and pc program. Enough redundancy for everyone.
Google has no public support mailaddress. All you get is to browse their help system with some superficial articles and some feedback button to the article, if you're lucky. Sending e-mail, even about scam in the chrome store or similiar, is just not wanted by them.
Just think about it. Does microsoft want a windows version, where things like the win10 installer can be removed easily?
They want to make money with their app store, to copy the apple business model. This needs a tight coupling of app store and operation system, because currently the system works fine with non-appstore programs.
Google can afford an open source android, as most people install the play store as very first thing on their custom rom. Because without appstore you're pretty much fucked when you want to run commercial apps (you may buy and install them, but their drm requires google or amazon appstore).
Microsoft cannot, as all programs already bring their own drm and their own updater programs. An appstore is convenient for programmers, but not required to achieve the things, which an appstore provides. And people are used to find software without store, on mobile platforms most people do not consider other sources, not even installing something as f-droid or the amazon store (which even has a daily offer of one paid app for free).
But maybe in context. If somebody asks me if teletubbies is a show, which should be recommended to grown ups, i would give 0/10 for this. So it hopefully does not end up in suggestions for my demographics. When somebody asks me on shows for three year olds, i may give 7 to 10 for it and want it to appear in recommodations for children shows.
There is a voting system, men and women can vote for shows, there is the average vote displayed common for both groups.
Now men and women vote and men do not vote as high for women shows as women do. They do not troll (no 1 star ratings, but realistic 5.8 which imply they want to tell a real opinion) and suddenly its abusive?
Either they make a women only vote for "shows aimed at women" (isn't that sexist?) or they have a general vote and the outcome represents the average viewer. And when enough men watch women shows, they vote for them and influence the average vote. Which means the number finally matches the opinion of the average human, not the average women. Maybe biased to the men/women ratio on the site, which isn't bad either, as the site should display the average vote with respect to its user base.
no, most e2e can work with trust-on-first-connect quite okay and you only need to verify if you need to. Still it will be 100% efficient when the first contact was secure (you have a good chance it was, if you're not edward snowden).
Just think of the asian people, where the western white man is the ideal for a beautiful person. I guess asian feminists are not very happy about this. People always MUST like what they are themself, idols are forbidden.
Same for thin people or in the past fat people (where fat was a beauty ideal, because fat people "had enough to eat" to put it in plain words).
And twitter needs to make sure its users do not post text as images? It's not like twitter would pack text longer than 140 chars into images for its users...
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There IS a business case. Which is the lack of books, if nobody pays.
So the 21th century business model:
- Present your idea for the book
- Get payed by interested persons
- Live from that money, write the book. Tell people, when you're running out of money in a transparent way, so they do not feel deceived
- Finally publish the book for free.
Face it, digital goods have no inherent worth, their worth is the labor before. So get payed for creating the book, not for selling copies. Of course, this means you need to work for your money as everybody else and cannot live from your bestseller and pass on the rights to your heirs. But the baker cannot copy his bread a million times and then live from the copies, either.
So stop telling immaterial goods (and this is even true for a hardcopy, minus the cost for printing) should cost. The work behind them should cost. And this should have a fixed price, which doesn't increast with more people reading the book.
And the next step then is, to announce your next book, so people who enjoyed the old one without financing can now pay for the next one.
The only backdraw: You have to deliver quality. A real fan (for example of a band) pays for all the content as physical media, goes to concerts, etc. and is open to paying for his band, even donating more than needed and enjoys the thought of helping to create the next album.
Another apparent drawback: People with little money are pirating it anyway. But who cares? Not buying because of a lack of money or pirating has the same outcome. And who pirated your content for the last years and now has a well paying position, may be the one with the biggest donation for your next project. Because he was always satisfied.
in europe you cannot forbid somebody to sell a license. Companies are trying (like microsoft did) and losing.
Too little bad chemicals in the smoke, so we need another measure.
so they strip tags, which would prevent their copy from loading content like images from the original server? So what? That's needed for operation. And i guess nobody would actually annotate their online banking or webmail pages.
Its for your own profit. The free upgrade will end soon and microsoft doesn't want you to miss the deadline. So its for your own profit, to avoid paying for win 10. Be happy they are helping you to actually use their free upgrade!
"Your password is weak, because 3 Million Users are already using it"
Cool, i found a common one! Lets try to use it on billgates@hotmail.com! Gotcha!
A whole new way to update your wordlists.
It would have to ask for permission. Did you get such an popup? I did never.
Install a Framework like XPrivacy and have a look, if it actually does. No rumors, facts!
nope, it does not. You can have google authenticator for example as hardware device, handy app, app on your pebble and pc program. Enough redundancy for everyone.
Google has no public support mailaddress. All you get is to browse their help system with some superficial articles and some feedback button to the article, if you're lucky. Sending e-mail, even about scam in the chrome store or similiar, is just not wanted by them.
before you can login to my gmail.
I guess much bad code is just really complicated and the alternatives are different versions, one being as bad as the other one.
tetris is timeless.
Nerds do not care about casual smart phone games with in-app purchases, which are undead for a long time.
Just think about it. Does microsoft want a windows version, where things like the win10 installer can be removed easily?
They want to make money with their app store, to copy the apple business model. This needs a tight coupling of app store and operation system, because currently the system works fine with non-appstore programs.
Google can afford an open source android, as most people install the play store as very first thing on their custom rom. Because without appstore you're pretty much fucked when you want to run commercial apps (you may buy and install them, but their drm requires google or amazon appstore).
Microsoft cannot, as all programs already bring their own drm and their own updater programs. An appstore is convenient for programmers, but not required to achieve the things, which an appstore provides. And people are used to find software without store, on mobile platforms most people do not consider other sources, not even installing something as f-droid or the amazon store (which even has a daily offer of one paid app for free).
opera had back and forward buttons, which just switch the whole site including state, instead of reloading the previous/next page.
But maybe in context. If somebody asks me if teletubbies is a show, which should be recommended to grown ups, i would give 0/10 for this. So it hopefully does not end up in suggestions for my demographics. When somebody asks me on shows for three year olds, i may give 7 to 10 for it and want it to appear in recommodations for children shows.
There is a voting system, men and women can vote for shows, there is the average vote displayed common for both groups.
Now men and women vote and men do not vote as high for women shows as women do. They do not troll (no 1 star ratings, but realistic 5.8 which imply they want to tell a real opinion) and suddenly its abusive?
Either they make a women only vote for "shows aimed at women" (isn't that sexist?) or they have a general vote and the outcome represents the average viewer. And when enough men watch women shows, they vote for them and influence the average vote. Which means the number finally matches the opinion of the average human, not the average women. Maybe biased to the men/women ratio on the site, which isn't bad either, as the site should display the average vote with respect to its user base.
I won't let you tell me what search engine i should use.
no, most e2e can work with trust-on-first-connect quite okay and you only need to verify if you need to. Still it will be 100% efficient when the first contact was secure (you have a good chance it was, if you're not edward snowden).
oh, a "screen saver"?! Did they patent it, yet?
What people like is not always political correct.
Just think of the asian people, where the western white man is the ideal for a beautiful person. I guess asian feminists are not very happy about this. People always MUST like what they are themself, idols are forbidden.
Same for thin people or in the past fat people (where fat was a beauty ideal, because fat people "had enough to eat" to put it in plain words).
People have a right of privacy.
And twitter needs to make sure its users do not post text as images? It's not like twitter would pack text longer than 140 chars into images for its users ...
RT is native since a long time, so you can substract the 3 "RT " chars. And Usernames ... are just part of a message, aren't they?