It was mentioned on a ton of shows during the same 2 week period when both of those references were made, it's called paid placement, and everyone pretends it couldn't be because it's GOOGLE.
I am no linguist, but I am pretty sure a british tabloid making a false statement (that something has been announced which hasn't) is maybe the opposite of the word substantial.
I think this doesn't even raise to the level of hoax, I think it's a cheap publicity stunt by the hosting company who then go and post it on slashdot hopign to get some hits. Good try!
Umm, maybe when someone invents a new genre that still gives me a reason to airbrush naked chicks on unicorns onto my van, THEN I will give up on fantasy. Until then, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
My post was just a little joke based on me misunderstanding the parent, I wasn't making some big point. I don't sit around discussion boards and post or analyze flamebait that much. The funny part is that the mods decided YOU were flamebait. Cue Nelson laugh...
"As for the packaging, there are numerous companies that do this relatively inexpensively if you are producing these in any quantity."
Vague much?
Also, doing 5000 up front is better than doing 1000 per month, obviously, that's no big insight. But take a real tip, and in that situation, do 1000 up front to test the concept and marketability, and THEN do the 5000 at once if need be. Setup fees hurt, but over-producing something in a field where products live or die based on consumer whims has a large element of gambling to it, and it's safer to spend the extra few hundred bucks (or whatever the setup fee is, since we are being as vague as humanly possible here) rather than waste thousands and have 4974 copies of your game in your basement for the next 50 years.
Yeah, about 6 months ago I remember there being some discussion about some stats someone got where it was like 85% windows (and presumably about 5% mac). To be fair, I don't remember the source of those stats whatsoever, but I remember a big discussion of this. But yeah, big disclaimer here that if it turned out I got the numbers a bit wrong I wouldn't be surprised, but even just thinking about the 20 or so people I know who read slashdot, noone uses linux.
And not that I'm anti-linux at all, I just find CmdrTaco's comment about needing "some other OS" funny, since to almost everyone reading, they DON'T need one. I am sure a huge amount of slashdot readers use linux on servers at work or home, but for their desktop, mp3-listening machine, nah.
The trick is, if they have a ton of tables to wait, like twice as many as they should, that's fine, they will make twice as many tips. Most people still give 15% no matter what, because they are suckers, so they'll make double the money. A few smart people will tip according to how good the service actually WAS and they'll lose a little, but not much.
Saying that tipping is a straight rule and to always give 15% is stupid, if that's so, then just add it to my bill. Waiters would HATE that though, because on the whole, far far more people tip more than 15% than less, because there are millions of people out there who were bad waiters in college telling everyone "oh no it's SO HARD, it's TERRIBLE, you HAVE to tip" etc.
Mmmmmmm no. You are still basically making your country at least partially take the rap for Clay Aiken and "From Justin To Kelly". Just keep schtum. Or try to blame it on Australia, noone here will notice!
The problem with adding that to the slashdot submission utility is that the submitters/editors wouldn't actually be able to see it because of their crazy myopia where any news story at all that is somewhat related to any of their pet causes automatically becomes proof of them. Here are 2 situations I can imagine coming up and the slashdot spin on them:
1. Major record companies report record profits slashdot spin: "See, ever since P2P has been thriving, sales have gone UP! GET WITH THE PROGRAM STUPID RECORD COMPANIES"
2. Major record companies report record losses slashdot spin: "The stupid record companies have to get with the program, of course noone is buying cds when they cost too much and with P2P thriving. They need to change their model and offer high bitrate non-DRM downloads for very very low prices! GET WITH THE PROGRAM STUPID RECORD COMPANIES!"
Hint to New Zealanders: If you want the rest of the world to respect your country, maybe try not mentioning this ever again, and just emphasize the good things about your country. Like the Lord of the Rings and umm.. sheep? Ok, so stick to mentioning LOTR and just ixnay on the ericanamay dolixay.
"But past that, I do agree with music piracy being a boost on sales and popularity, as it widens dramatically the potential market for any artist to not just people with 20 bucks but to people with MUCH much less who probably couldn't afford it at all otherwise."
I think you make good points and we sort of agree on the fact this article is bunk and we'd both love to see real studies, but where we diverge is that you believe something, but I have no opinion and am waiting for hard facts. I think you should change the word "believe" to "hope", since you seem to just believe that without any hard facts. Don't get me wrong, you may be right, who knows, but it's easy to believe things that fall in line easily with your worldview and then make up reasons that they must be true, and while you may or may not be right in the long run, in the short run you're sort of applying your point of view into a situation where it doesn't necessarily logically follow, which is sort of what the submitter has done here, although they obviously did it much more egregiously and ridiculously.
Not sure how you got modded as a troll, weird. And the wild thing that just drives me nuts about it is that the submitter is like "haha stupid idiots can't see the pattern in front of their eyes", when there is obviously NO provable causal relationship, and it's the submitter who is projecting a pattern onto where there simply isn't one.
How does this stuff get put on the main page? This is a 4 paragraphs or so article just saying that local music is popular, and mentions that piracy of the music is up too. How is this in any way proof or causal? Dear submitter, here is what is staring you in the face with this tiny, tiny article: Piracy happens more for bands that people like than bands they don't like. If a band becomes more popular, piracy will increase. To attribute some weird "the popularity must be because of the piracy, duh!" idea to this is ludicrous, and crazy illogical. God I hate myself for reading slashdot, especially on a saturday night.
OSX was on there, but it booted into 9, and the OSX on there was unusably slow. I would try Panther, but I've given up on Apple after 10 years of putting up with shenanigans like this and am pretty much sticking to XP now.
Don't feel so bad Apple doesn't even make the latest iTunes for OS9, which was the OS on my computer I bought for them less than 2 years ago, in fact maybe less than a year and a half. At that rate, Windows people are lucky iTunes even runs on WindowsME or 2000, you have it better off than mac users!
Forking is part of everything I hate about open source. I hate the forking bugs, I hate the forking users, I hate the forking beards, I hate the whole forking thing!
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It was mentioned on a ton of shows during the same 2 week period when both of those references were made, it's called paid placement, and everyone pretends it couldn't be because it's GOOGLE.
I can't wait to see how this thing works in tandem with my iWalk!!
I am no linguist, but I am pretty sure a british tabloid making a false statement (that something has been announced which hasn't) is maybe the opposite of the word substantial.
I think this doesn't even raise to the level of hoax, I think it's a cheap publicity stunt by the hosting company who then go and post it on slashdot hopign to get some hits. Good try!
Umm, maybe when someone invents a new genre that still gives me a reason to airbrush naked chicks on unicorns onto my van, THEN I will give up on fantasy. Until then, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
My post was just a little joke based on me misunderstanding the parent, I wasn't making some big point. I don't sit around discussion boards and post or analyze flamebait that much. The funny part is that the mods decided YOU were flamebait. Cue Nelson laugh...
Ooh yeah, so their products will be cheaper, I'll defintiely buy them then, XM it is! Thanks for the tip!
"As for the packaging, there are numerous companies that do this relatively inexpensively if you are producing these in any quantity."
Vague much?
Also, doing 5000 up front is better than doing 1000 per month, obviously, that's no big insight. But take a real tip, and in that situation, do 1000 up front to test the concept and marketability, and THEN do the 5000 at once if need be. Setup fees hurt, but over-producing something in a field where products live or die based on consumer whims has a large element of gambling to it, and it's safer to spend the extra few hundred bucks (or whatever the setup fee is, since we are being as vague as humanly possible here) rather than waste thousands and have 4974 copies of your game in your basement for the next 50 years.
But there is so little meat to these anonymous claims that they are probably just trying to spread some always-welcome-here anti-microsoft FUD around.
Yeah, about 6 months ago I remember there being some discussion about some stats someone got where it was like 85% windows (and presumably about 5% mac). To be fair, I don't remember the source of those stats whatsoever, but I remember a big discussion of this. But yeah, big disclaimer here that if it turned out I got the numbers a bit wrong I wouldn't be surprised, but even just thinking about the 20 or so people I know who read slashdot, noone uses linux.
And not that I'm anti-linux at all, I just find CmdrTaco's comment about needing "some other OS" funny, since to almost everyone reading, they DON'T need one. I am sure a huge amount of slashdot readers use linux on servers at work or home, but for their desktop, mp3-listening machine, nah.
note: link requires some other OS... than the ones that 10% of slashdot readers use as their primary desktop OS.
The trick is, if they have a ton of tables to wait, like twice as many as they should, that's fine, they will make twice as many tips. Most people still give 15% no matter what, because they are suckers, so they'll make double the money. A few smart people will tip according to how good the service actually WAS and they'll lose a little, but not much.
Saying that tipping is a straight rule and to always give 15% is stupid, if that's so, then just add it to my bill. Waiters would HATE that though, because on the whole, far far more people tip more than 15% than less, because there are millions of people out there who were bad waiters in college telling everyone "oh no it's SO HARD, it's TERRIBLE, you HAVE to tip" etc.
Haha, I hope for your sake that your arguments are usually better than "My major this year is philosophy... you dont want this buddy."
Your mention of Americans blaming themselves just shows how little you know about how America works :)
Mmmmmmm no. You are still basically making your country at least partially take the rap for Clay Aiken and "From Justin To Kelly". Just keep schtum. Or try to blame it on Australia, noone here will notice!
The problem with adding that to the slashdot submission utility is that the submitters/editors wouldn't actually be able to see it because of their crazy myopia where any news story at all that is somewhat related to any of their pet causes automatically becomes proof of them. Here are 2 situations I can imagine coming up and the slashdot spin on them:
1. Major record companies report record profits
slashdot spin: "See, ever since P2P has been thriving, sales have gone UP! GET WITH THE PROGRAM STUPID RECORD COMPANIES"
2. Major record companies report record losses
slashdot spin: "The stupid record companies have to get with the program, of course noone is buying cds when they cost too much and with P2P thriving. They need to change their model and offer high bitrate non-DRM downloads for very very low prices! GET WITH THE PROGRAM STUPID RECORD COMPANIES!"
Hint to New Zealanders: If you want the rest of the world to respect your country, maybe try not mentioning this ever again, and just emphasize the good things about your country. Like the Lord of the Rings and umm.. sheep? Ok, so stick to mentioning LOTR and just ixnay on the ericanamay dolixay.
"But past that, I do agree with music piracy being a boost on sales and popularity, as it widens dramatically the potential market for any artist to not just people with 20 bucks but to people with MUCH much less who probably couldn't afford it at all otherwise."
I think you make good points and we sort of agree on the fact this article is bunk and we'd both love to see real studies, but where we diverge is that you believe something, but I have no opinion and am waiting for hard facts. I think you should change the word "believe" to "hope", since you seem to just believe that without any hard facts. Don't get me wrong, you may be right, who knows, but it's easy to believe things that fall in line easily with your worldview and then make up reasons that they must be true, and while you may or may not be right in the long run, in the short run you're sort of applying your point of view into a situation where it doesn't necessarily logically follow, which is sort of what the submitter has done here, although they obviously did it much more egregiously and ridiculously.
Not sure how you got modded as a troll, weird. And the wild thing that just drives me nuts about it is that the submitter is like "haha stupid idiots can't see the pattern in front of their eyes", when there is obviously NO provable causal relationship, and it's the submitter who is projecting a pattern onto where there simply isn't one.
How does this stuff get put on the main page? This is a 4 paragraphs or so article just saying that local music is popular, and mentions that piracy of the music is up too. How is this in any way proof or causal? Dear submitter, here is what is staring you in the face with this tiny, tiny article: Piracy happens more for bands that people like than bands they don't like. If a band becomes more popular, piracy will increase. To attribute some weird "the popularity must be because of the piracy, duh!" idea to this is ludicrous, and crazy illogical. God I hate myself for reading slashdot, especially on a saturday night.
YES! Also, sometimes capital punishment is wrong, so the obvious solution is to abolish murder laws!! That'd solve it!
OSX was on there, but it booted into 9, and the OSX on there was unusably slow. I would try Panther, but I've given up on Apple after 10 years of putting up with shenanigans like this and am pretty much sticking to XP now.
Don't feel so bad Apple doesn't even make the latest iTunes for OS9, which was the OS on my computer I bought for them less than 2 years ago, in fact maybe less than a year and a half. At that rate, Windows people are lucky iTunes even runs on WindowsME or 2000, you have it better off than mac users!
p.s. not really, i love it.
Forking is part of everything I hate about open source. I hate the forking bugs, I hate the forking users, I hate the forking beards, I hate the whole forking thing!