As you increase price, you decrease volume. There is always a sweet spot that maximizes profit.
Well, I don't know about you, but my perception is that the music industry is way over to the right of the "sweet spot" on the sales-against-price graph. I hardly ever buy CDs these days, because I hardly ever see them for a price I'm willing to pay.
When Mute Records released a sizeable chunk of their back-catalog for under $10, I sent in a $150 order--as opposed to a $0 order while the prices were $15 and up.
As I wrote to a record store owner who was wondering how he could stay in business: I could easily put together a list of ten CDs I'd buy tomorrow if they were $10 or less. But they're not, so I spend $0 and wait for a sale.
Software rewrites may be considered harmful, but at which point do you declare that enough is enough and start again, breaking it down into smaller, easily tested modules?
Except Microsoft already did that once. They called the new codebase Windows NT. And now it's the biggest OS ever constructed, measured by lines of code...
You mean like some sort of zero-gravity USB mouse based on alien tech from Area 51? Or a special force-feedback joystick for operating orbital mind-control lasers?
300 dpi was the resolution of laser printers circa 1980, and modern laser printers with 600 dpi are clearly superior, so I don't think that 200 dpi is the visual resolution of paper. It is, however, approximately the resolution limit of magazine halftone photography, so maybe that's where you got the idea.
The main problem with bad hinting at 150 dpi is irregular visual emphasis of the verticals of the letter forms.
Debian does the same thing to Perl, except there are substantially more than 34 packages. I'm not sure what the point is, as Perl has its own package management via the CPAN module. I wish Debian would let Perl do its own package management, like Gentoo does.
The entire Ruby system isn't 3MB, either, if you're calling those 34 packages the system. The log4r package alone is 1.1MB, libqt-ruby is another 1.3MB, and libxmlparser-ruby is 0.8MB.
And Debian does have Ruby 1.8.2, I run Debian unstable and I've been using 1.8.2 for a while now.
Oh, but it wasn't just a matter of commands and syntax. The file control block (FCB) structure of MS-DOS 1.0 was practically identical to that of CP/M-86. When you see internal data structures duplicated, you really have to think that it's not just coincidence.
I worked at one company that was so disfunctional that a lot of people came out of it damaged--paranoid, burnt out, with bad work habits, and with egos either so over-inflated or badly broken that they were useless to any employer for a couple years afterwards.
OK, how many other people checked his web site to see if they knew him from a previous job?
If course the tidbit about Microsoft, that's not what are going to tell your next boss.
Depends where you're trying to get a job. There are plenty of places where mentioning how much you want to raze Microsoft to the ground will increase your chances of being hired, or at least elicit a sigh of agreement.
As I see it, it wasn't even as big a deal as a platform decision he didn't like. He admits that he's a Windows-only developer, he just didn't particularly like the change of dev tools.
(In other words he was already a whore, he was just unhappy with the new facilities provided by the brothel...)
I wouldn't particularly like it if I had to write some C, but I wouldn't quit my job over it.
In fact, IBM's revenue growth on Linux servers was higher than the figure cited in the article...but I'm probably not allowed to tell you how much higher...
You misunderstand my issue with the system proposed.
I'm not objecting that it's insecure because it's wireless; I'm objecting that I don't want people reading my credit cards remotely, even if they can do it securely, and even if they are holders of legitimate VISA merchants.
Imagine if every e-commerce site you visited had the technical capability to read your VISA card details, simply by your visiting their site. Would you want a VISA card then? Would you still casually browse the web for bargains?
Well, if VISA want better security, they should use the new EMV system in a way which requires physical contact between card and reader.
I don't want anyone being able to read my credit cards remotely. Not even the store I'm in. It simply does not provide me with any value, it just adds risk, and I am not going to accept any credit card with that functionality.
Analog TV won't cease until the vast majority of the US citizens have digital sets. I don't see that ever happening if switching to digital means you can't record and play back shows as you please like with an analog set.
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Eclipse.
IBM gives it away for free as open source software.
It also sells it for a tidy profit--as it's the basis of WebSphere Studio Application Developer.
It's not just a library, and IBM created it from scratch, so there's no "appropriating" or relying on people contributing their labor for free.
Happy now?
Well, I don't know about you, but my perception is that the music industry is way over to the right of the "sweet spot" on the sales-against-price graph. I hardly ever buy CDs these days, because I hardly ever see them for a price I'm willing to pay.
When Mute Records released a sizeable chunk of their back-catalog for under $10, I sent in a $150 order--as opposed to a $0 order while the prices were $15 and up.
As I wrote to a record store owner who was wondering how he could stay in business: I could easily put together a list of ten CDs I'd buy tomorrow if they were $10 or less. But they're not, so I spend $0 and wait for a sale.
Unfortunately BitComet only runs on Windows.
That are the most ugly headlines to torture the English grammars with incorrect singulars/plural I are seeing in a long whiles.
Except Microsoft already did that once. They called the new codebase Windows NT. And now it's the biggest OS ever constructed, measured by lines of code...
At least it wasn't jet-powered Big Macs from the McDonalds-Douglas corporation, or electroshock chocolate bars from British Aero Space.
Top secret Logitech space equipment?
You mean like some sort of zero-gravity USB mouse based on alien tech from Area 51? Or a special force-feedback joystick for operating orbital mind-control lasers?
300 dpi was the resolution of laser printers circa 1980, and modern laser printers with 600 dpi are clearly superior, so I don't think that 200 dpi is the visual resolution of paper. It is, however, approximately the resolution limit of magazine halftone photography, so maybe that's where you got the idea.
The main problem with bad hinting at 150 dpi is irregular visual emphasis of the verticals of the letter forms.
Unfortunately, even on a 150dpi screen, antialiasing without hinting looks like crap.
Maybe when we get 300dpi LCDs in common use...
So that they can offer a more competitive selection of web applications, and attract more customers. Duh.
Of course, they may not realize that. Similarly, it seems to be tough to find a web host that offers ordinary people J2EE...
Debian does the same thing to Perl, except there are substantially more than 34 packages. I'm not sure what the point is, as Perl has its own package management via the CPAN module. I wish Debian would let Perl do its own package management, like Gentoo does.
The entire Ruby system isn't 3MB, either, if you're calling those 34 packages the system. The log4r package alone is 1.1MB, libqt-ruby is another 1.3MB, and libxmlparser-ruby is 0.8MB.
And Debian does have Ruby 1.8.2, I run Debian unstable and I've been using 1.8.2 for a while now.
If the range is that small, what's the point? Why not just have regular touch contacts to an embedded chip?
Oh, but it wasn't just a matter of commands and syntax. The file control block (FCB) structure of MS-DOS 1.0 was practically identical to that of CP/M-86. When you see internal data structures duplicated, you really have to think that it's not just coincidence.
Perhaps now they can go back and re-do some of their old movies that they only released in pan-and-scan format...
No update for me yet, so I'm gonna go download the whole thing...
OK, how many other people checked his web site to see if they knew him from a previous job?
Sounds like EDS, Ross Perot's old company. They have a standard uniform, a "no facial hair" policy, and all kinds of other freaky policies.
Depends where you're trying to get a job. There are plenty of places where mentioning how much you want to raze Microsoft to the ground will increase your chances of being hired, or at least elicit a sigh of agreement.
As I see it, it wasn't even as big a deal as a platform decision he didn't like. He admits that he's a Windows-only developer, he just didn't particularly like the change of dev tools.
(In other words he was already a whore, he was just unhappy with the new facilities provided by the brothel...)
I wouldn't particularly like it if I had to write some C, but I wouldn't quit my job over it.
In fact, IBM's revenue growth on Linux servers was higher than the figure cited in the article...but I'm probably not allowed to tell you how much higher...
I wish the APIs were a bit more stable.
You misunderstand my issue with the system proposed.
I'm not objecting that it's insecure because it's wireless; I'm objecting that I don't want people reading my credit cards remotely, even if they can do it securely, and even if they are holders of legitimate VISA merchants.
Imagine if every e-commerce site you visited had the technical capability to read your VISA card details, simply by your visiting their site. Would you want a VISA card then? Would you still casually browse the web for bargains?
Well, if VISA want better security, they should use the new EMV system in a way which requires physical contact between card and reader.
I don't want anyone being able to read my credit cards remotely. Not even the store I'm in. It simply does not provide me with any value, it just adds risk, and I am not going to accept any credit card with that functionality.
I'll be happy when Thunderbird's address book can at least import and export vCard records, and has an easy way to send my address as a vCard.
Address book with no support for import and export of industry standard format = not useful.
Yes, I know people have hacked together extensions and Perl scripts. That's not the point. It should be part of the standard core application.
Analog TV won't cease until the vast majority of the US citizens have digital sets. I don't see that ever happening if switching to digital means you can't record and play back shows as you please like with an analog set.