Well, on the older ibooks when you switch out your battery, you can simply close the lid, let the machine go into sleep mode, remove the battery and quickly put one back in. Open you finished you can open the lid and the computer will wake back up because there's an additional battery inside the machine.
The great value of steam, and audible and other services that uses DRM is the convenience of not having to keep my own copy. If I bought a new computer, I can just download the games / audiobooks that I'd purchased off their server.
Itunes isn't quite there yet. Sure you can downlaod the iphone applications from their server again, but once you'd downloaded music / movies from them, you're on your own. Better make sure you have backups.
DRM is ok if it's weak and non-demanding. being able to play it on multiple number of PCs and devices should make it a fine compromise.
Me and my partner are in a car part distribution business, and we occasionally sell parts to end customers with credit card charges. These are the few things we learn:
1) Always wait a day or two before the money is shown "Settled" into your bank before shipping the products out.
2) ALWAYS ALWAYS save information about tracking number, and ALWAYS put full insurance coverage on shipment. DO NOT USE USPS. If you lose your shipment, customers will dispute the charges and you'll end up losing these shipments.
3) Must write up a clear and formal policy and have the user agree to it whenever they purchase your products online. This doesn't always protect you, but it does help you fight off Credit Card Dispute sometimes. Put in there clearly that you are not responsible for shipping carrier's fault (shipment lost or damaged)
4) Give yourself a 15 business days leeway in the policy mentioned above, and stick to it. You need to look into it when the customer claim that they didn't receive the package or it's not the right item or what not. The customer's actually not always right, and they are not always acting with good faith. Always protect yourself.
Personally I like distribution business (which I am in) a lot better than dealing with end customers and Credit Cards. Credit Card Companies always make it a point to give customers more protection than they do to business, especially in America.
Now think about how much of the winXP is Linux-based.....It's scary. M$ is ripping open-sources off big time because they know no one in the open-source community has the money to sue them. those bastards....
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Well, on the older ibooks when you switch out your battery, you can simply close the lid, let the machine go into sleep mode, remove the battery and quickly put one back in. Open you finished you can open the lid and the computer will wake back up because there's an additional battery inside the machine.
Not sure if they do that in the newer macbooks.
The great value of steam, and audible and other services that uses DRM is the convenience of not having to keep my own copy. If I bought a new computer, I can just download the games / audiobooks that I'd purchased off their server.
Itunes isn't quite there yet. Sure you can downlaod the iphone applications from their server again, but once you'd downloaded music / movies from them, you're on your own. Better make sure you have backups.
DRM is ok if it's weak and non-demanding. being able to play it on multiple number of PCs and devices should make it a fine compromise.
thanks, subscribed. :)
I'm going to watch it in Dobie at 10pm. If you don't know where it is it's right next to UT Campus. Be there early so you can find parking.
Me and my partner are in a car part distribution business, and we occasionally sell parts to end customers with credit card charges. These are the few things we learn:
1) Always wait a day or two before the money is shown "Settled" into your bank before shipping the products out.
2) ALWAYS ALWAYS save information about tracking number, and ALWAYS put full insurance coverage on shipment. DO NOT USE USPS. If you lose your shipment, customers will dispute the charges and you'll end up losing these shipments.
3) Must write up a clear and formal policy and have the user agree to it whenever they purchase your products online. This doesn't always protect you, but it does help you fight off Credit Card Dispute sometimes. Put in there clearly that you are not responsible for shipping carrier's fault (shipment lost or damaged)
4) Give yourself a 15 business days leeway in the policy mentioned above, and stick to it. You need to look into it when the customer claim that they didn't receive the package or it's not the right item or what not. The customer's actually not always right, and they are not always acting with good faith. Always protect yourself.
Personally I like distribution business (which I am in) a lot better than dealing with end customers and Credit Cards. Credit Card Companies always make it a point to give customers more protection than they do to business, especially in America.
Now think about how much of the winXP is Linux-based.....It's scary. M$ is ripping open-sources off big time because they know no one in the open-source community has the money to sue them. those bastards....