oh please, spare me the conspiracy theory about power tripping greedy corrupt politicians. You guys don't fucking know corruption.
Pat Leahy is not corrupt. Ferdinand Marcos(Who's regime I did get to witness first hand from the safety of a USAF base), now there's a right bastard for you.
You middle class, first world, pampered BRATS have it easy. Seriously. The true colors of our political system?
The true colors of our political system is the fact that highway funding bills are getting caught up in congress because of infighting over top marginal tax rates.
Have you volunteered? Have you called your congress critter? What have you done other than bitch on slashdot or maybe boingboing or reddit over this?
And yes, Congressional officials don't care about whether or not YOU want it, because let's face it, you don't have any stake what so ever in monetization or piracy of IP goods. So you really don't give one shit or another.
Yes, the studios and record labels are all greedy bastards, but they're the ones who do have an actual stake in IP rights. When you're making a living based on how well your art is received, then let's talk.
I used to work at Clearwire and I got to play around with one when we got one in for testing and for documenting our support processes. We pushed it pretty hard but the thing just didn't sell.
Which I think is a bad example for *anything* UI related. Mostly because office software is so ridiculously crufty that the only way to make it more usable is by offering *less* features.
Firefox does pretty well with the ribbon. what's going to get me off FF isn't the ribbon.
so? I'm not invested in Apple stock. I don't think Apple's going anywhere. It's not like the last time steve left. Death took him this time, not john sculley and a bunch of suits.
The summary cited MMOs as why us Slashdot geeks would argue freemium works.
Wrong. GaiaOnline. GaiaOnline makes a whole crapload of money for their in-world virtual currency. I don't think it qualifies much as a game.
Why Freemium doesn't work is because your "free" service isn't good enough for people to buy into the "premium" part(I'd say that it's also possible for your free to be so good you don't feel pressured into buying the premium product; but I suspect this is rare). That's why Dropbox, Gaia, MMOs(well, some; pick your favorite example), PSN(For sake of argument, let's just say this is a successful "freemium" service?), etc. work. The base product is fairly good, and the premium features are worth the extra out of pocket costs.
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The problem with the hacker mindset is that things will be half broken, priorities dangling and loose threads everywhere.
This is not what non hackers want. It's not that the lack of expansion or locked down app sources are some anti-hacker conspiracy, it's what consumers ultimately want.
I have a job doing technical work; being able to grind my brain against bare metal is a great thing. However, I don't want to come home and do another for free on a device I paid for.
My point was that if you look at the average user's equipment... You'll see they really don't give a shit about bare metal. I don't want to have to do shit work anymore. "Post-PC" to me means, "I don't have to be OCD about my home directory."
The problem is that the carrier's business model is to sell you a new phone every six months.
I don't think carriers and handset makers are actually that clever. I just dont' think they consider software updates at all relevant. Given even in the days of yore, with WinMo and PalmOS, OS updates were largely nonexistant. Want Winmo6 from Winmo5? Buy a Winmo 6 device!
The idea that you can have the latest and greatest OS with out custom flashing your ROM is kind of new.
for me it's the alton brown effect. Trading in one really good unitasker for a very good but not as good multitasker. When I lived in Vegas, AT&T coverage was like butter. Smooth and had good coverage. Now no matter where I go, I want my smart phone. Right now, it's the iPhone. Could it change? Sure. But will I want email, web browsing, apps, data, etc. AND a phone? Yeah. Because the iPhone did it very well.
This is why I brought up the point that Android's going to catch up to iOS Six Months From Now.
People are buying Android but they're simply just not using Android devices like iOS users are. this is a problem with carriers, phone hardware vendors AND Google. People are buying these phones and just not giving a damn. OTOH, iOS users are actually engaging with their devices. This is poison for Android as an ecosystem.
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Oh jesus crust.
No. No. no. no no no no no no no no.
First off, the DHS isn't that evil
Second off, STASI isn't that bumbling and stupid.
oh please, spare me the conspiracy theory about power tripping greedy corrupt politicians. You guys don't fucking know corruption.
Pat Leahy is not corrupt. Ferdinand Marcos(Who's regime I did get to witness first hand from the safety of a USAF base), now there's a right bastard for you.
You middle class, first world, pampered BRATS have it easy. Seriously. The true colors of our political system?
The true colors of our political system is the fact that highway funding bills are getting caught up in congress because of infighting over top marginal tax rates.
Have you volunteered? Have you called your congress critter? What have you done other than bitch on slashdot or maybe boingboing or reddit over this?
And yes, Congressional officials don't care about whether or not YOU want it, because let's face it, you don't have any stake what so ever in monetization or piracy of IP goods. So you really don't give one shit or another.
Yes, the studios and record labels are all greedy bastards, but they're the ones who do have an actual stake in IP rights. When you're making a living based on how well your art is received, then let's talk.
The N810 is a goddamned joke.
I used to work at Clearwire and I got to play around with one when we got one in for testing and for documenting our support processes. We pushed it pretty hard but the thing just didn't sell.
And the QuickTake 100 and 150 were both rebranded Kodak hardware.
The most obvious example of the Ribbon is Office.
Which I think is a bad example for *anything* UI related. Mostly because office software is so ridiculously crufty that the only way to make it more usable is by offering *less* features.
Firefox does pretty well with the ribbon. what's going to get me off FF isn't the ribbon.
(Hey Moz, fix the damn memory leaks!)
Stop? Why not ask nicely? It worked for Weird Al.
My comment was largely concerned with patents though.
There are flaws in the patent system, competition isn't one of them.
Err.. If you can only compete by stealing my designs then no. We do need copyright and patents.
so? I'm not invested in Apple stock. I don't think Apple's going anywhere. It's not like the last time steve left. Death took him this time, not john sculley and a bunch of suits.
For the iPod I think it's to build the library metadata files.
I'd rather not have to be OCD and manage my library manually.
I didn't know RMS posted to slashdot.
Well, yeah.
But the fact is, they came pretty damn close. it looks badass.
I keep hearing this about patents.
If it's trivial and non novel then why is no one doing it or previously put a patent on it?
It's not trivial or non-novel. it's just not being done.
Except when you and your machine are in Ogdenville and your safe with your pen drive is in North Haverbrook.
The whole point, i suspect, is that people forget flash drives. Or have several and don't know which one they stored their password on.
OTOH, they tend to only have one and only one charger, and that's significantly harder to lose.
The summary cited MMOs as why us Slashdot geeks would argue freemium works.
Wrong. GaiaOnline. GaiaOnline makes a whole crapload of money for their in-world virtual currency. I don't think it qualifies much as a game.
Why Freemium doesn't work is because your "free" service isn't good enough for people to buy into the "premium" part(I'd say that it's also possible for your free to be so good you don't feel pressured into buying the premium product; but I suspect this is rare). That's why Dropbox, Gaia, MMOs(well, some; pick your favorite example), PSN(For sake of argument, let's just say this is a successful "freemium" service?), etc. work. The base product is fairly good, and the premium features are worth the extra out of pocket costs.
The problem with the hacker mindset is that things will be half broken, priorities dangling and loose threads everywhere.
This is not what non hackers want. It's not that the lack of expansion or locked down app sources are some anti-hacker conspiracy, it's what consumers ultimately want.
For me it's the other way around.
I have a job doing technical work; being able to grind my brain against bare metal is a great thing. However, I don't want to come home and do another for free on a device I paid for.
My point was that if you look at the average user's equipment... You'll see they really don't give a shit about bare metal. I don't want to have to do shit work anymore. "Post-PC" to me means, "I don't have to be OCD about my home directory."
After working years in support, no. God no. People don't need to be more empowered to shoot themselves in the feet.
You're advocating they either have better guns to shoot themselves with or more feet. Or both.
now who do I pray to to get more seeders on my torrents?
IIRC, major OS updates for palm devices largely didn't exist. Going from Palm OS3 to 4 or 5 was impossible.
The problem is that the carrier's business model is to sell you a new phone every six months.
I don't think carriers and handset makers are actually that clever. I just dont' think they consider software updates at all relevant. Given even in the days of yore, with WinMo and PalmOS, OS updates were largely nonexistant. Want Winmo6 from Winmo5? Buy a Winmo 6 device!
The idea that you can have the latest and greatest OS with out custom flashing your ROM is kind of new.
These days?
Go watch Beach Blanket Bngo or Juke Girl.
No, things didn't just randomly turn to shit.
I'm more shocked that a jailbroken iPhone hasn't compromised Apple's video offerings but Google is scared shitless about rooting.
for me it's the alton brown effect. Trading in one really good unitasker for a very good but not as good multitasker. When I lived in Vegas, AT&T coverage was like butter. Smooth and had good coverage. Now no matter where I go, I want my smart phone. Right now, it's the iPhone. Could it change? Sure. But will I want email, web browsing, apps, data, etc. AND a phone? Yeah. Because the iPhone did it very well.
I wouldn't want to tangle with someone with a powered suit of armor.
Would you?
This is why I brought up the point that Android's going to catch up to iOS Six Months From Now.
People are buying Android but they're simply just not using Android devices like iOS users are. this is a problem with carriers, phone hardware vendors AND Google. People are buying these phones and just not giving a damn. OTOH, iOS users are actually engaging with their devices. This is poison for Android as an ecosystem.