The only thing that's close is the music subscription model which people seem to heckle on because they don't really seem to understand that its benefits has to mean there are drawbacks too, or that they only see the drawbacks and not the benefits.
OK, I get that. I don't think this guy has anything to be worried about. He's got more orders than he can deal with even if his products are priced out of the range of a lot of players. But if you've got years invested into your character, then compared to the cost and effort, the statue is pretty inexpensive.
This wasted money would have to translate into Best Buy's bottom line, and thus affect we, the consumers as higher overall prices.
Despite its stupidity, a C&D costs very little, particularly the size of Best Buy. Now, it's caught them some negative publicity, but I think that negative publicity is mainly going out to the BB haters anyway.
There's quite a significant difference between play time on a mass production game and a custom figure. The game can be made affordable through economies of scale, custom figures really can't, even with this technology. For what it is, it's incredibly inexpensive.
That doesn't mean you have to buy it, or like the price, but please understand that there are limitations on what's a realistic expectation for custom products.
But Nintendo had had two consoles that struck out before Wii and their WiiMote was not a proven concept. Seriously, Wii was sink-or-swim time for them and it was a bet that has paid off so far.
I think Ogg has more business than any other container format - it really is open for anyone to use, and you don't have to worry about the whims of Microsoft, Real or Apple, or their fragmenting ways.
I'd think that's the best way to go, and I don't use any Ogg formats. That would also make it easier to make a web site because the owners don't have to either render three different videos for upload, making maintenance a lot easier. It would be an alternative to using flash for video too, if every web browser supported it without requiring a seperate download.
When the newspaper in my area investigated the publicized list, it turned turned out that the list was outdated, basically the state didn't make sufficient effort to check the list before publicizing it. So people were getting harassed just because they lived in the "wrong" house.
I think the Megan's law type stuff is misguided anyway. All this stupidity in response to one crime. The worst part is that rational thought has to be put aside to "protect the children". Heck, if this story is true, then someone was murdered on the presumption that the crime would be repeated, basically an execution based on pre-crime.
It doesn't make sense that Nintendo would deliberately constrain supply like that. Deliberately letting demand go unsatisfied like that for over a year can cause serious problems to the brand.
As it is, I think it's the fastest selling console ever. They may have bought or built a certain amount of plant capacity for the launch and demand exceeded expectations. Expanding on that might take a while, I don't know.
"But if such a belief is true that "programs are mathematical algorithms" it should be provable."
Isn't it more a philosophical issue than a mathematics issue?
I think the difference may be execution vs. underlying operation. I'd say that software is an algorithm, but those that don't program it wouldn't know that.
I heard that was once done with telemarketing candidates, maybe it was done more recently too. Where you get numerous annoying phone calls saying they are from candidate "A" when "B" paid for it in a ruse to get people pissed off at "A" to vote for "B" instead. The law moves so slowly that by the time it gets prosecuted, the election is done.
The pro-vaccination group needs to get the message out that despite being a net positive, there are some downsides too, that there is an occasional bad reaction or undesirable side effects. Everyone's biology is a little different from the next person, and the person that gets a bad reaction is less likely to want to get another one, despite their net positive benefit.
The problem is that there's not much scientific justification to going, and IIRC, a manned mission to mars is estimated to take a good fraction of a trillion dollars once it's done.
A fleet of inexpensive robots can do the exploration job for cheaper and doesn't risk the loss of life.
I would love to see humans on Mars, but I think a lot of our space innovation can be done with robots for the time being. As it is, too many probes to Mars get lost (IIRC, a third fail, crash or don't get into orbit properly), I want to see them get it right more often.
You can probably hire someone to haul around your computer for less than that. Carrying this thing would probably give you a workout too, which you'll need after just sitting on your duff all evening. I couldn't find any specs on the size and weight, I'm guessing 2" or thicker, and about 12lb. At least, after sitting on your duff all evening, 12lb is going to feel like a serious workout.
I think the class II bluetooth receivers are good for 30 meters. I had a mouse + class II receiver and I was able to still scroll the computer from 20 meters away, through three walls and it still worked fine.
I thought the GPL allows you to chose the license that you like, if a future version somehow gets a reprehensible modification, you can still chose an older license, assuming that that program version was distributed with an older license.
But I don't think this is just about trusting the EFF that this happens. This is a case about discovery. EFF isn't everywhere and can't directly measure this sort of thing from their offices - they need client programs run in as many locations as reasonable to gather.
The thing is, I thought that net neutrality was about being neutral about the source organization of a packet, not being neutral about the type of packet. For example, that the ISP doesn't try to give Google's services a lower priority than their own services.
But the "phone" as we know it know does all that stuff. It's not even recognizable as a phone now.
I would like the system to be more open, but I don't want the sound quality to suffer even more just by letting people be cheapskates and use worse quality devices like a roaming Skype device. I certainly would be more inclined to hang up if it's like the last Skype call I received.
The problem is that OSS proponents didn't even seem to give ASUS enough time that I could tell in the linked blogs. Instead, they quickly post to the internet, and the blogs and angry OSS proponents get all frothy when actual reasonable people could have gone to ASUS first, made their case and actually give them time. If ASUS turns them down or takes far too long, then that's the time to spread the information. As it is, the (I assume few) loudest OSS advocates just sound angry, irrational and willing to skip steps in order to get people angry.
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The development tools aren't anything like that.
The only thing that's close is the music subscription model which people seem to heckle on because they don't really seem to understand that its benefits has to mean there are drawbacks too, or that they only see the drawbacks and not the benefits.
OK, I get that. I don't think this guy has anything to be worried about. He's got more orders than he can deal with even if his products are priced out of the range of a lot of players. But if you've got years invested into your character, then compared to the cost and effort, the statue is pretty inexpensive.
This wasted money would have to translate into Best Buy's bottom line, and thus affect we, the consumers as higher overall prices.
Despite its stupidity, a C&D costs very little, particularly the size of Best Buy. Now, it's caught them some negative publicity, but I think that negative publicity is mainly going out to the BB haters anyway.
I don't think you really grasp it.
There's quite a significant difference between play time on a mass production game and a custom figure. The game can be made affordable through economies of scale, custom figures really can't, even with this technology. For what it is, it's incredibly inexpensive.
That doesn't mean you have to buy it, or like the price, but please understand that there are limitations on what's a realistic expectation for custom products.
I don't think ISPs have common carrier status for that service.
But Nintendo had had two consoles that struck out before Wii and their WiiMote was not a proven concept. Seriously, Wii was sink-or-swim time for them and it was a bet that has paid off so far.
I think Ogg has more business than any other container format - it really is open for anyone to use, and you don't have to worry about the whims of Microsoft, Real or Apple, or their fragmenting ways.
I'd think that's the best way to go, and I don't use any Ogg formats. That would also make it easier to make a web site because the owners don't have to either render three different videos for upload, making maintenance a lot easier. It would be an alternative to using flash for video too, if every web browser supported it without requiring a seperate download.
When the newspaper in my area investigated the publicized list, it turned turned out that the list was outdated, basically the state didn't make sufficient effort to check the list before publicizing it. So people were getting harassed just because they lived in the "wrong" house.
I think the Megan's law type stuff is misguided anyway. All this stupidity in response to one crime. The worst part is that rational thought has to be put aside to "protect the children". Heck, if this story is true, then someone was murdered on the presumption that the crime would be repeated, basically an execution based on pre-crime.
It doesn't make sense that Nintendo would deliberately constrain supply like that. Deliberately letting demand go unsatisfied like that for over a year can cause serious problems to the brand.
As it is, I think it's the fastest selling console ever. They may have bought or built a certain amount of plant capacity for the launch and demand exceeded expectations. Expanding on that might take a while, I don't know.
"But if such a belief is true that "programs are mathematical algorithms" it should be provable."
Isn't it more a philosophical issue than a mathematics issue?
I think the difference may be execution vs. underlying operation. I'd say that software is an algorithm, but those that don't program it wouldn't know that.
I heard that was once done with telemarketing candidates, maybe it was done more recently too. Where you get numerous annoying phone calls saying they are from candidate "A" when "B" paid for it in a ruse to get people pissed off at "A" to vote for "B" instead. The law moves so slowly that by the time it gets prosecuted, the election is done.
It's not just that, I don't think many people remember that.
Even on NPR's Science Friday, I've almost never heard them talk about the side-effects of vaccines when they have a half hour segments on vaccines.
The pro-vaccination group needs to get the message out that despite being a net positive, there are some downsides too, that there is an occasional bad reaction or undesirable side effects. Everyone's biology is a little different from the next person, and the person that gets a bad reaction is less likely to want to get another one, despite their net positive benefit.
The problem is that there's not much scientific justification to going, and IIRC, a manned mission to mars is estimated to take a good fraction of a trillion dollars once it's done.
A fleet of inexpensive robots can do the exploration job for cheaper and doesn't risk the loss of life.
I would love to see humans on Mars, but I think a lot of our space innovation can be done with robots for the time being. As it is, too many probes to Mars get lost (IIRC, a third fail, crash or don't get into orbit properly), I want to see them get it right more often.
You can probably hire someone to haul around your computer for less than that. Carrying this thing would probably give you a workout too, which you'll need after just sitting on your duff all evening. I couldn't find any specs on the size and weight, I'm guessing 2" or thicker, and about 12lb. At least, after sitting on your duff all evening, 12lb is going to feel like a serious workout.
That's funny, but I thought that the UK wasn't in the EU. I thought they were the most resistant to changing measuring systems too.
I think the class II bluetooth receivers are good for 30 meters. I had a mouse + class II receiver and I was able to still scroll the computer from 20 meters away, through three walls and it still worked fine.
Wait a minute, how is an album on CD five times more expensive than a downloaded album? I've never seen that.
I predict that 50% of the comments here will be thinly-veiled racial attacks on Russia.
Is there a "Russian race"?
If there is, that would be news to me. And I've been there a couple times. The races of those that live there aren't unique to Russia.
and we know that actual people do keep logs of us.
And you don't think that the scale is a concern? It's one thing that people keep a log, but now, even that's not necessary, just have 'bots log in.
But NASA still has three "cars" remaining, it's not as if both of two "cars" were lost. The first one was lost well before commitment was made.
I thought the GPL allows you to chose the license that you like, if a future version somehow gets a reprehensible modification, you can still chose an older license, assuming that that program version was distributed with an older license.
But I don't think this is just about trusting the EFF that this happens. This is a case about discovery. EFF isn't everywhere and can't directly measure this sort of thing from their offices - they need client programs run in as many locations as reasonable to gather.
The thing is, I thought that net neutrality was about being neutral about the source organization of a packet, not being neutral about the type of packet. For example, that the ISP doesn't try to give Google's services a lower priority than their own services.
But the "phone" as we know it know does all that stuff. It's not even recognizable as a phone now.
I would like the system to be more open, but I don't want the sound quality to suffer even more just by letting people be cheapskates and use worse quality devices like a roaming Skype device. I certainly would be more inclined to hang up if it's like the last Skype call I received.
The problem is that OSS proponents didn't even seem to give ASUS enough time that I could tell in the linked blogs. Instead, they quickly post to the internet, and the blogs and angry OSS proponents get all frothy when actual reasonable people could have gone to ASUS first, made their case and actually give them time. If ASUS turns them down or takes far too long, then that's the time to spread the information. As it is, the (I assume few) loudest OSS advocates just sound angry, irrational and willing to skip steps in order to get people angry.