Indeed. This is part of freedom of speech. You can say what you think. They have the right to respond. Everybody else is perfectly at liberty to write that they consider Wales to be irresponsible and that he runs a worthless encyclodia site.
Opinions certainly shouldn't be in wikipedia, but this is because of wikipedia's editorial poolicy. Not because of what the law says, or should say.
"For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby".
But it's totally true. Is he really insisting that nobody has ever, in the past 40 years, briefly thought that he might be involved with the Kennedy assasinations? Of course someone must have thought he was once, briefly.
Don't be too concerend. They have a shop and shopfront. They may be in a rundown area and have a fairly tatty looking shop, but the ones to really look out for are the ones that seem to be run from a residential address. A lot of these places are just warehouses because they do all their business online.
They paid Cameron Diaz for her star power, her voice was just a small corner of the overall package. Veteran voice actors are ignored because voice actors have zero box office draw.
Certainly the reasoning. I have to wonder if this makes a difference. Personally, I'd love to see a film with Billy West doing a voice. And the main target market (kids) don't really care about who's doing the voices.
Pixar movies tend to go for decent voice actors. They do have some big names but never the huge stars that the Shrek producers went with. All the Disney classics had nobodies doing the voices. The animation was the star and they damn well knew it! But this has changed. Now it's all about the stars.
Retail price = cost of each unit + the amount that will make us most money.
As you will see - There's no development cost there. If it costs less to devlop, then that is simply an increase in profits. Why would they charge less? So that they can make less money? It simply doesn't work like that. Business doesn't exist to offer a "fair" price to consumers. It exists to maximise profits. They are charging $60 because they think that the increase in per unit profit will offset the decrease in demand.
But every time you buy a newspaper sports section, you're obliged to buy thenews and the letters page as well. If you buy a cooked meat patty at McDonalds, you're obliged to pay for a bun, and everything else that makes it a Big Mac. They do it the way they do because it tends to work.
If you're not at home you'll never get a perfect 911 service whether its set up or not. but this is irrelevant. It doesn't make having a reliable service when you are at home less valuable as a result.
What will that actually achieve? A loss in revenue? They'll put that down to file sharing if they notice it at all.
Except they won't notice. Slashdot readers are a tiny proportion of CD buyers. Sony installed a rootkit on PCs! It was all over the tech news. Did Sony's sales suffer as a result? Hardly a blip. So we go without the music we like, for what benefit?
I wonder why Sony takes it's time developing their console as opposed to rushing it out the door to try to gain marketshare like some other greedy corporation does
Are you suggesting Sony isn't some greedy corporation?
I work for a studio wholly owned by a large developer. We seem to have more creative control than we did at a large independent studio. This does depend on the publisher of course.
This isn't number of people on a flight. This is number of people at the airport! How many people go through every 5 minutes? This could easily be in the thousands.
But the question is whether the process can be pipelined. Is the sample just sitting there for 5 minutes? Can several samples be processed at the same time? I still think that doing anything like 100 people at a time would be impractical though.
What happens when the job requires traveling at night (2nd or 3rd shift), or on Saturday evenings, or on Sundays, or on holidays, or to or from locations outside the city limits or other locations not serviced by public transport?
Then you can't take the job.
Actually, that's not true. I can only go by UK standards, but our public transport is genrally criticised for being inferior to most of Europe. In London, it's possible to get to and from most places by public transport all night. The tube closes before midnight, but the night bus service is quite good. Other cities aren't neccesarily as good but you can usually get a train to where you're going. Most fairly populous areas have at least an hourly service between 8am and 10pm on Sundays. But most jobs don't have these hours.
But the fact is, it's really quite easy to survive in most of Europe without having a car. The bus system described in the link would be more typical of the service to a town of a few hundred people.
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Indeed. This is part of freedom of speech. You can say what you think. They have the right to respond. Everybody else is perfectly at liberty to write that they consider Wales to be irresponsible and that he runs a worthless encyclodia site.
Opinions certainly shouldn't be in wikipedia, but this is because of wikipedia's editorial poolicy. Not because of what the law says, or should say.
"For a brief time, he was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy assassinations of both John, and his brother, Bobby".
But it's totally true. Is he really insisting that nobody has ever, in the past 40 years, briefly thought that he might be involved with the Kennedy assasinations? Of course someone must have thought he was once, briefly.
Don't be too concerend. They have a shop and shopfront. They may be in a rundown area and have a fairly tatty looking shop, but the ones to really look out for are the ones that seem to be run from a residential address. A lot of these places are just warehouses because they do all their business online.
They paid Cameron Diaz for her star power, her voice was just a small corner of the overall package. Veteran voice actors are ignored because voice actors have zero box office draw.
Certainly the reasoning. I have to wonder if this makes a difference. Personally, I'd love to see a film with Billy West doing a voice. And the main target market (kids) don't really care about who's doing the voices.
Pixar movies tend to go for decent voice actors. They do have some big names but never the huge stars that the Shrek producers went with. All the Disney classics had nobodies doing the voices. The animation was the star and they damn well knew it! But this has changed. Now it's all about the stars.
Here's the equation to determine retail cost:
Retail price = cost of each unit + the amount that will make us most money.
As you will see - There's no development cost there. If it costs less to devlop, then that is simply an increase in profits. Why would they charge less? So that they can make less money? It simply doesn't work like that. Business doesn't exist to offer a "fair" price to consumers. It exists to maximise profits. They are charging $60 because they think that the increase in per unit profit will offset the decrease in demand.
But every time you buy a newspaper sports section, you're obliged to buy thenews and the letters page as well. If you buy a cooked meat patty at McDonalds, you're obliged to pay for a bun, and everything else that makes it a Big Mac. They do it the way they do because it tends to work.
The way I understand it is the pricing mechanism works roughly like this (not as simple but the principle is the same):
Alice is willing to pay $1 for channel A and $2 for channel B
Bob is willing to pay $2 for channel A and $1 for channel B
We can maximise profits by charging $3 for channel A and channel B. This gives them $6 rather than 4 if they charge $2 per channel or $1 per channel.
If you're not at home you'll never get a perfect 911 service whether its set up or not. but this is irrelevant. It doesn't make having a reliable service when you are at home less valuable as a result.
When you start anthropomorphising code, it's probably time to take a break from computers for a bit...
No, it is about structured programming. At least indirectly through use of the pun. It's more on topic than a lot of the discussion on this site.
No contest. Highlander 2 is a lot worse. At least Superman IV didn't screw with the plot of previous films, so can comfortably be ignored.
I think some people found it such a traumatically bad film that they repressed the memory.
*(unlike when people say Sheeps, Fishs or Euros)
Eh? Is the plural of Euro Euro then? Or do you just really hate single the european currency?
They all work that way in Britain. A lot of them have sensors and only flush if they've been used since the last flush.
So I'll just search for |\/|@|)|)0|\|@ and |<'/713.
Piracy is stealing. Period.
And IP protection is murder, and capitalism is slavery. Period.
What will that actually achieve? A loss in revenue? They'll put that down to file sharing if they notice it at all.
Except they won't notice. Slashdot readers are a tiny proportion of CD buyers. Sony installed a rootkit on PCs! It was all over the tech news. Did Sony's sales suffer as a result? Hardly a blip. So we go without the music we like, for what benefit?
Of course they can. And we can ridicule them for their opinions.
I wonder why Sony takes it's time developing their console as opposed to rushing it out the door to try to gain marketshare like some other greedy corporation does
Are you suggesting Sony isn't some greedy corporation?
I work for a studio wholly owned by a large developer. We seem to have more creative control than we did at a large independent studio. This does depend on the publisher of course.
This isn't number of people on a flight. This is number of people at the airport! How many people go through every 5 minutes? This could easily be in the thousands.
But the question is whether the process can be pipelined. Is the sample just sitting there for 5 minutes? Can several samples be processed at the same time? I still think that doing anything like 100 people at a time would be impractical though.
What happens when the job requires traveling at night (2nd or 3rd shift), or on Saturday evenings, or on Sundays, or on holidays, or to or from locations outside the city limits or other locations not serviced by public transport?
Then you can't take the job.
Actually, that's not true. I can only go by UK standards, but our public transport is genrally criticised for being inferior to most of Europe. In London, it's possible to get to and from most places by public transport all night. The tube closes before midnight, but the night bus service is quite good. Other cities aren't neccesarily as good but you can usually get a train to where you're going. Most fairly populous areas have at least an hourly service between 8am and 10pm on Sundays. But most jobs don't have these hours.
But the fact is, it's really quite easy to survive in most of Europe without having a car. The bus system described in the link would be more typical of the service to a town of a few hundred people.
And if that happened, then people would buy them at the same rate as ringtones - typically once every few months.
There's the solution...
Sell an "honest customer" version and an "evil pirate" version. Then simply rely on people's honesty to select the right version.
Hmm. Seems I got autorun and autoplay mixed up.