You ran for 5 or 6 years by giving away 100% of your content and lost an assload of money:( . Then you started only giving away 80% and lost less money:) . But you have still lost 80 million dollars:(
Right now, you should immediately switch and give away only 20% or less of your content and charge for the rest. Maybe you will still go out of business, but if you don't do this you are guaranteed to, running crazy ad deals for mercedes is not even close to a long term solution:( . And maybe you'll actually turn your business around, if that is still even a remote possibility:()
I'd love to hear from someone who has done this, cause triton's site makes it sound simple as pie.. well not really, but they made it sound okay until I read this on portable monopoly's site: "you've read the horror stories and seen the results of installations done by others " and okay, I'm scared now!
This is slashdot remember! A 100mhz speed bump and $200 price drop on a laptop is amazing important news, and an awesome toy like this is "overhyped and overpriced". An Xbox running linux is the greatest thing since sliced bread (which was only really cool when they got the breadbox running linux), but this, baaah, boring. What I love is people saying it's overhyped and overpriced without ever riding one or seeing one in person, so ludicrous.
Shh, don't spread this too much, you'll ruin what I've been telling all my friends for ages: If you want to join emusic for free, just sign up and then download music for a few days straight, they'll cancel your subscription and refund your fees.
Well, at least that distinguishes the DRM-ed music from OGG, where files that won't play on any portable device or cd player has nothing to do with any business plan.
I am 100% confident that EMI is going to do what the public has been demanding for for ages and release their music in ogg format. Anyone who says that the inclusion of the ogg comment by the poster was ridiculous and just tossed in so the story would be accepted by the slashdot editors is insane and I do not believe them at all. It makes perfect sense to assume that EMI is going to release music in the widely-used ogg format. I know a lot of you nerds who just read slashdot all day might not realize, but everywhere in america,OGG is the hottest buzzword anywhere. Teens are spending their weekend having "ogging parties" where they download and trage ogg vorbis files, and even thousands of grandmas are enjoying "sharing" (WINK) their favourite old classics in ogg format.
In summary, of course EMI is release the music in OGG format, why does the poster even need to ask! DUH.
I sure hope it does go GPL, the CPU cores will be a real boon to umm.. umm.. well I'm sure there's someone out there somewhere trying to run linux on an arcade machine.
But do you have even ONE TINY SHRED of evidence to support this theory? Is it totally inconceivable that someone walked into a movie theater and filmed this, and then released it online? What is there that is so at fault with that concept?
Try it on a G4, and make sure to use the most recent version and you'll be blown away, I know I was when I tried it a month ago. before that, my only experience with it was back when it was in version 2 or so, and the difference is astounding. I can play mp3s on it, tons of stuff.
I second this, just because I think a lot of people assume virtual PC is slow and crappy, but I tried the latest version last month and it's amazing, it's totally usable (the G4 makes a huge difference I believe). The speed isn't quite up to what you'd want, and some ui things do respond slower than the native system, but it can do most things at a very very acceptable speed (and this is from someone who doesn't think OS X runs at an acceptable speed). use it in system 9 though for the best results, skip it on OS X.
Or maybe it's cause they know that they will get guaranteed links from slashdot and dozens of mac sites. They've hit on an easy formula that gets them hits (which they desperately need), and they're going with it. Unfortunately it means we're stuck reading stories like this and "man spills ketchup on dog and it looks like an apple logo!" all the time.
That quote where the guy says he thinks the assistant will get an apple tattoo when she's more into macs, that is just so annoying, it changes this guy from "dork with sort of neat hobby" to "aggravating fanatic", and it reminds me of the dental assistant in Trekkies who admits that she dresses up Star Trek-style because the dentist threatened to fire her if she didn't.
They better make sure that Hurd supports hard drives up to 20 terabytes or so, since that'll be about the average size by the time Hurd ever gets done.
This would have saved karen Silkwood? How? More likely is she would have put the info she was gathering online, and then still died, and then someone would have found the info 3 years later after horribly mistyping a search term, for some video game and gone "this is just text {delete}".
I absolutely love RB for Mac apps, but the cross-compile stuff for windows is actually the source of many complaints. The marketing materials make it sound like you can write once for mac and then compile and run on Windows, but it isn't the case, you have to test on Windows very often while compiling or you'll run into big problems, especially without a windows debugger. This might change somewhat when REAL release the IDE for windows (!) sometime soon, as just announced (i forget the release date, i think early 2003).
Expensive? It's only 99 bucks I think, as long as you only want to compile fo Mac platforms, not too shabby for what you get, and the IDE is fantastic comparedto VB.
Yeah, I agree with you that even though some of the hacks were awesome and very useful and well done, and only people who already knew they could add instability mainly installed them, it's good that noone can create anything as useful as that anymore, because some people made bad INITs.
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Evolution in motion eh Hemos? As opposed to evolution which doesn't go forward, or uhh..
That's why I said 20% though, I agree with you in theory (except about micropayments), but I think giving away 80% of the stuff is too high a number.
You ran for 5 or 6 years by giving away 100% of your content and lost an assload of money :( . Then you started only giving away 80% and lost less money :) . But you have still lost 80 million dollars :(
:( . And maybe you'll actually turn your business around, if that is still even a remote possibility :()
Right now, you should immediately switch and give away only 20% or less of your content and charge for the rest. Maybe you will still go out of business, but if you don't do this you are guaranteed to, running crazy ad deals for mercedes is not even close to a long term solution
I'd love to hear from someone who has done this, cause triton's site makes it sound simple as pie.. well not really, but they made it sound okay until I read this on portable monopoly's site: "you've read the horror stories and seen the results of installations done by others " and okay, I'm scared now!
This is slashdot remember! A 100mhz speed bump and $200 price drop on a laptop is amazing important news, and an awesome toy like this is "overhyped and overpriced". An Xbox running linux is the greatest thing since sliced bread (which was only really cool when they got the breadbox running linux), but this, baaah, boring. What I love is people saying it's overhyped and overpriced without ever riding one or seeing one in person, so ludicrous.
If he was truly hardcore, he never would have been able to test it, you need to go outside to see sunlight.
exactly! and you are umm... an emusic employee?
Shh, don't spread this too much, you'll ruin what I've been telling all my friends for ages: If you want to join emusic for free, just sign up and then download music for a few days straight, they'll cancel your subscription and refund your fees.
Well, at least that distinguishes the DRM-ed music from OGG, where files that won't play on any portable device or cd player has nothing to do with any business plan.
I am 100% confident that EMI is going to do what the public has been demanding for for ages and release their music in ogg format. Anyone who says that the inclusion of the ogg comment by the poster was ridiculous and just tossed in so the story would be accepted by the slashdot editors is insane and I do not believe them at all. It makes perfect sense to assume that EMI is going to release music in the widely-used ogg format. I know a lot of you nerds who just read slashdot all day might not realize, but everywhere in america,OGG is the hottest buzzword anywhere. Teens are spending their weekend having "ogging parties" where they download and trage ogg vorbis files, and even thousands of grandmas are enjoying "sharing" (WINK) their favourite old classics in ogg format.
In summary, of course EMI is release the music in OGG format, why does the poster even need to ask! DUH.
I sure hope it does go GPL, the CPU cores will be a real boon to umm.. umm.. well I'm sure there's someone out there somewhere trying to run linux on an arcade machine.
You sound like you'd just be a delightful tech support rep to deal with: "You got spam? YOUR COMPUTER HAS BEEN HACKED! YOU HAVE BEEN OWNED!"
But do you have even ONE TINY SHRED of evidence to support this theory? Is it totally inconceivable that someone walked into a movie theater and filmed this, and then released it online? What is there that is so at fault with that concept?
Try it on a G4, and make sure to use the most recent version and you'll be blown away, I know I was when I tried it a month ago. before that, my only experience with it was back when it was in version 2 or so, and the difference is astounding. I can play mp3s on it, tons of stuff.
I second this, just because I think a lot of people assume virtual PC is slow and crappy, but I tried the latest version last month and it's amazing, it's totally usable (the G4 makes a huge difference I believe). The speed isn't quite up to what you'd want, and some ui things do respond slower than the native system, but it can do most things at a very very acceptable speed (and this is from someone who doesn't think OS X runs at an acceptable speed). use it in system 9 though for the best results, skip it on OS X.
Or maybe it's cause they know that they will get guaranteed links from slashdot and dozens of mac sites. They've hit on an easy formula that gets them hits (which they desperately need), and they're going with it. Unfortunately it means we're stuck reading stories like this and "man spills ketchup on dog and it looks like an apple logo!" all the time.
That quote where the guy says he thinks the assistant will get an apple tattoo when she's more into macs, that is just so annoying, it changes this guy from "dork with sort of neat hobby" to "aggravating fanatic", and it reminds me of the dental assistant in Trekkies who admits that she dresses up Star Trek-style because the dentist threatened to fire her if she didn't.
They better make sure that Hurd supports hard drives up to 20 terabytes or so, since that'll be about the average size by the time Hurd ever gets done.
This would have saved karen Silkwood? How? More likely is she would have put the info she was gathering online, and then still died, and then someone would have found the info 3 years later after horribly mistyping a search term, for some video game and gone "this is just text {delete}".
Yeah, but 1500 clients WHAT? this minute, this second?
I absolutely love RB for Mac apps, but the cross-compile stuff for windows is actually the source of many complaints. The marketing materials make it sound like you can write once for mac and then compile and run on Windows, but it isn't the case, you have to test on Windows very often while compiling or you'll run into big problems, especially without a windows debugger. This might change somewhat when REAL release the IDE for windows (!) sometime soon, as just announced (i forget the release date, i think early 2003).
Expensive? It's only 99 bucks I think, as long as you only want to compile fo Mac platforms, not too shabby for what you get, and the IDE is fantastic comparedto VB.
Yeah, I agree with you that even though some of the hacks were awesome and very useful and well done, and only people who already knew they could add instability mainly installed them, it's good that noone can create anything as useful as that anymore, because some people made bad INITs.
Do the 2ghz ones count as northwood? what do you think about those? Curious since I got a couple a month or two ago..
That is the point, a fan is cheaper, but not needing a fan is BETTER, and only apple really design it that well.