What app are you using that only takes 15 minutes to rip a full length film? Or are you using a beowulf cluster? It takes significantly longer than 15 minutes for me to get quality rips off of my 2hr+ feature film DVDs. If you really are getting that kind of ripping speed, clue me in please.
I don't think It's supply and demand. It's price anchoring. People are used to paying $10 so that's what they continue to think it's worth. If the price were set at $2 for a CD sales would initially jump because people would see it as a deal since it's well below the established anchor but eventually they'd adjust to the new anchor and internally value a CD at $2. Then if you tried to charge $10 for a CD you'd have next to zero sales because it's ridiculously higher than what people think a CD is worth. This has nothing to do with supply or demand. It has everything to do with how people's brains work.
Think about it like this: the $599 for an iPhone or a Droid is arbitrary. It was a price point generated by market research that takes irrational agents into account (because as much as economics majors want to pretend we're all rational, we're most definitely not). Now when you see you can get a Droid or iPhone for $199 it feels like a good deal. But only because the original price was set as an anchor. If the original price had been $199 you wouldn't think it's a steal at $199 but because of the early arbitrary price (early adopters are almost always price insensitive) now $199 feels like a good purchasing decision. This is done ALL THE TIME by manufacturers and retailers. Why do you think there are such things as MSRP?
It works everywhere. Studies even show adding a few high priced items to a menu increases sales of ALL items on the menu. People perceive a deal based on relative prices arbitrarily, supply and demand be damned.
Actually, punishing legitimate customers is a byproduct. The purpose of DRM is to maintain control of the sales channel. Which means locking consumers in and locking independent producers out.
No, the savings are not illusory. The primary savings advantage for organizations (like the one I work for, as an example) is in LABOR. You know, the single most expensive item of almost every business in the world. We have 20 remote branch office locations. We have ZERO IT staff in any of those remote locations. Because we have ZERO PCs to get f*ed up by the users in those branch offices. Yes, you can lock down desktops so they can't install crap and mess them up. But it requires a lot less IT presence to support a couple dozen "thin terminals" that have no CD drives, no floppy drives, NO MOVING PARTS, and so fewer parts to possibly fail than the alternative with desktop PCs.
I imagine if you look at the "TCO" of desktop PCs deployed in an organization like ours verses the thin clients we use, the difference in equipment and software licensing costs is likely negligible either way. Where thin clients come out on top is in overhead spending on labor.
Exactly. There's nothing to see here. There is tremendous drive right now for developers with an interest in making money to develop apps for Android. The drive is there because the "promise" of riches is there. But, just like the desktop computing environment before, the commercial developers will be followed by OSS developers who just have an itch to scratch that no existing app handles, or they realize people are charging money for an app that is essentially twenty lines of code and they say, "really? they charge money for that? How ridiculous!" and write a better version under a FLOSS license. I have added a crapload of apps to my droid, all free as in beer and some free as in speech. It's cool to realize some of the games I play on my phone I could contribute patches to if I so desired.
One of the reasons I chose this phone is because I use the Android SDK and have written a few (VERY simple) apps and know if there's something I want bad enough, I can develop it myself and I don't have to root (or "jailbreak") my phone (voiding warranties) or get Google or Apple's approval to install it.
Yes. I play GW frequently. You can learn a lot of different skills for your character's primary and secondary "profession" but only have 8 skill slots available at any one time. Another cool thing they do is there's part of the story line (completely avoidable if you don't want to do it) that if you follow it and complete the missions your character becomes "Ascended" which allows you to then change your secondary profession at will. You can get so called "elite" skills as well but only one elite skill can be in your build at any time. You can create character builds, save and load them whenever you're in a town or outpost, and effectively switch between a healer, damage dealer, or tank at will depending on the need of the mission at hand.
Each profession has a primary attribute that you can only use if it is your primary profession but you can change so many other things at will there are specialized builds people have determined for different quests and types. For instance, I started out as a ranger (archer, trap (AoE) setter, and the only profession that can own a pet) but the pet was mostly used only as a (not the most effective) tank. With some recent skill additions, I can effectively run around as a beastmaster with my pet being a very effective tank and a moderate damage dealer. I also still frequently play as an interrupter as rangers are one of the better classes for interrupts. It's nice to be able to interrupt a healer and disable their best healing skill for 20+ seconds.
Thanks to the builds I can also play my elementalist character and easily switch between a fire/water/air/earth mage as needed. I'm just starting to get the hang of my ritualist/necro character which summons spirits (ritualist) and uses corpses to raise minions (necro).
I know. I still can't believe the man had the audacity to say it. This is one of those times when a person says something so stupid it's not even stupid, so f*ed up it's not even funny, and so retarded even retarded people say, "OMGWTF?!"
'We're changing IE to use the DirectX family of Windows APIs to enable many advances for Windows-only web developers,' explains Internet Explorer's general manager, Dean Hachamovitch.
What in the world is wrong with me? I must be getting senile. I've done this math like five times now and keep getting different answers. I think I need to re-learn how to type numbers into a calculator.
Redoing the last step (what I did wrong initially eludes me) if I divide 1,243,443,256,646,464 by 8,589,934,592 I get 14,592. So I guess, no that machine doesn't have nearly 100,000 times more memory.
MOST phones have the option to set a security PIN or password so you can't just unlock them by pressing *[Talk]. People turn those off because they get tired of entering a PIN every time their phone auto locks itself (every 5/10/15/etc. minutes) and then complain that they can't lock their phones in a way that keeps their kids from using them.
Solution: Enable the PIN every time you hand your phone to your toddler and disable it when you get it back.
On what make/model phone is this hardwired button? Every phone I've ever had has used programmable buttons outside of the number pad and on/off/talk/hangup buttons. Don't like the function of button X on the side/top/front of the phone, change it to whatever other function you like...or disable it completely.
I own both an N800 and an N810. I want an N900. I so very much would love to use the N900 as my phone. Unfortunately, like with real estate where it's "location location location" and software it's "developers developers developers" for cell phones it's "network network network" and Verizon kicks every other US provider's ass when it comes to the network.
So I think this weekend I'll probably get a Droid. It's not as open as the N900, true. But I have the Android SDK installed and can write Java apps. It is pretty open. The Android platform is way more open than every other platform sans Maemo.
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What app are you using that only takes 15 minutes to rip a full length film? Or are you using a beowulf cluster? It takes significantly longer than 15 minutes for me to get quality rips off of my 2hr+ feature film DVDs. If you really are getting that kind of ripping speed, clue me in please.
I don't think It's supply and demand. It's price anchoring. People are used to paying $10 so that's what they continue to think it's worth. If the price were set at $2 for a CD sales would initially jump because people would see it as a deal since it's well below the established anchor but eventually they'd adjust to the new anchor and internally value a CD at $2. Then if you tried to charge $10 for a CD you'd have next to zero sales because it's ridiculously higher than what people think a CD is worth. This has nothing to do with supply or demand. It has everything to do with how people's brains work.
Think about it like this: the $599 for an iPhone or a Droid is arbitrary. It was a price point generated by market research that takes irrational agents into account (because as much as economics majors want to pretend we're all rational, we're most definitely not). Now when you see you can get a Droid or iPhone for $199 it feels like a good deal. But only because the original price was set as an anchor. If the original price had been $199 you wouldn't think it's a steal at $199 but because of the early arbitrary price (early adopters are almost always price insensitive) now $199 feels like a good purchasing decision. This is done ALL THE TIME by manufacturers and retailers. Why do you think there are such things as MSRP?
It works everywhere. Studies even show adding a few high priced items to a menu increases sales of ALL items on the menu. People perceive a deal based on relative prices arbitrarily, supply and demand be damned.
Actually, punishing legitimate customers is a byproduct. The purpose of DRM is to maintain control of the sales channel. Which means locking consumers in and locking independent producers out.
You forgot the simplest rule and outed yourself as a troll the moment you wrote "my girlfriend".
Size doesn't matter!
A bag of random crap shouldn't cost more than a dollar. But at that price, I'd buy three.
*Sniff*, I would have played that game.
I would have too, ten years ago.
No, the savings are not illusory. The primary savings advantage for organizations (like the one I work for, as an example) is in LABOR. You know, the single most expensive item of almost every business in the world. We have 20 remote branch office locations. We have ZERO IT staff in any of those remote locations. Because we have ZERO PCs to get f*ed up by the users in those branch offices. Yes, you can lock down desktops so they can't install crap and mess them up. But it requires a lot less IT presence to support a couple dozen "thin terminals" that have no CD drives, no floppy drives, NO MOVING PARTS, and so fewer parts to possibly fail than the alternative with desktop PCs.
I imagine if you look at the "TCO" of desktop PCs deployed in an organization like ours verses the thin clients we use, the difference in equipment and software licensing costs is likely negligible either way. Where thin clients come out on top is in overhead spending on labor.
Exactly. There's nothing to see here. There is tremendous drive right now for developers with an interest in making money to develop apps for Android. The drive is there because the "promise" of riches is there. But, just like the desktop computing environment before, the commercial developers will be followed by OSS developers who just have an itch to scratch that no existing app handles, or they realize people are charging money for an app that is essentially twenty lines of code and they say, "really? they charge money for that? How ridiculous!" and write a better version under a FLOSS license. I have added a crapload of apps to my droid, all free as in beer and some free as in speech. It's cool to realize some of the games I play on my phone I could contribute patches to if I so desired.
One of the reasons I chose this phone is because I use the Android SDK and have written a few (VERY simple) apps and know if there's something I want bad enough, I can develop it myself and I don't have to root (or "jailbreak") my phone (voiding warranties) or get Google or Apple's approval to install it.
Yes. I play GW frequently. You can learn a lot of different skills for your character's primary and secondary "profession" but only have 8 skill slots available at any one time. Another cool thing they do is there's part of the story line (completely avoidable if you don't want to do it) that if you follow it and complete the missions your character becomes "Ascended" which allows you to then change your secondary profession at will. You can get so called "elite" skills as well but only one elite skill can be in your build at any time. You can create character builds, save and load them whenever you're in a town or outpost, and effectively switch between a healer, damage dealer, or tank at will depending on the need of the mission at hand.
Each profession has a primary attribute that you can only use if it is your primary profession but you can change so many other things at will there are specialized builds people have determined for different quests and types. For instance, I started out as a ranger (archer, trap (AoE) setter, and the only profession that can own a pet) but the pet was mostly used only as a (not the most effective) tank. With some recent skill additions, I can effectively run around as a beastmaster with my pet being a very effective tank and a moderate damage dealer. I also still frequently play as an interrupter as rangers are one of the better classes for interrupts. It's nice to be able to interrupt a healer and disable their best healing skill for 20+ seconds.
Thanks to the builds I can also play my elementalist character and easily switch between a fire/water/air/earth mage as needed. I'm just starting to get the hang of my ritualist/necro character which summons spirits (ritualist) and uses corpses to raise minions (necro).
I know. I still can't believe the man had the audacity to say it. This is one of those times when a person says something so stupid it's not even stupid, so f*ed up it's not even funny, and so retarded even retarded people say, "OMGWTF?!"
OMGWTF?!
'We're changing IE to use the DirectX family of Windows APIs to enable many advances for Windows-only web developers,' explains Internet Explorer's general manager, Dean Hachamovitch.
Welcome to the new IE. Same as the old IE.
Nice. I keep forgetting that google does that so well.
okay, it's a data entry error.
114 TB = 125,344,325,566,464 Bytes not that first number I fat fingered in.
Dividing THAT number by 8,589,934,592 (the RAM in my machine) results in: 14,592.
What in the world is wrong with me? I must be getting senile. I've done this math like five times now and keep getting different answers. I think I need to re-learn how to type numbers into a calculator.
Redoing the last step (what I did wrong initially eludes me) if I divide 1,243,443,256,646,464 by 8,589,934,592 I get 14,592. So I guess, no that machine doesn't have nearly 100,000 times more memory.
According to my math:
1TByte = 1024 GBytes
1GByte = 1024 MBytes
1MByte = 1024 KBytes
1KByte = 1024 Bytes
so 114 TB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 114 = 1,243,443,256,646,464 bytes
My machine has 8 GBytes of RAM in it which is (1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 8) 8,589,934,592 bytes
So that machine has ~ 144,755.846896 times more memory than mine.
Or I'm missing something but hey, I was told there would be no math.
Or Poland
You are only asinine when you are having something to say.
MOST phones have the option to set a security PIN or password so you can't just unlock them by pressing *[Talk]. People turn those off because they get tired of entering a PIN every time their phone auto locks itself (every 5/10/15/etc. minutes) and then complain that they can't lock their phones in a way that keeps their kids from using them.
Solution: Enable the PIN every time you hand your phone to your toddler and disable it when you get it back.
On what make/model phone is this hardwired button? Every phone I've ever had has used programmable buttons outside of the number pad and on/off/talk/hangup buttons. Don't like the function of button X on the side/top/front of the phone, change it to whatever other function you like...or disable it completely.
I own both an N800 and an N810. I want an N900. I so very much would love to use the N900 as my phone. Unfortunately, like with real estate where it's "location location location" and software it's "developers developers developers" for cell phones it's "network network network" and Verizon kicks every other US provider's ass when it comes to the network.
So I think this weekend I'll probably get a Droid. It's not as open as the N900, true. But I have the Android SDK installed and can write Java apps. It is pretty open. The Android platform is way more open than every other platform sans Maemo.
Listen, I hate Microsoft. I think the people who run Microsoft are criminals. I cannot for the life of me believe I'm about to say this:
You buy an XBox 360, you can do whatever you want with it. Mod it to your heart's content.
But the Live network belongs to Microsoft. They have a right to disconnect you if they want.
Now excuse me while I find someone to fulfill my user name.
Study/article is misleading and useless.
Also: Chrome, Bitches!
This research seems kinda shaky.