There is no separate versioning for the API (and breaking compatibility once in a while is necessary, security, etc., so a more stable extension API would still benefit from some sort of versioning).
If the tv shows and movies were ~$0.25-1.00, it wouldn't give me a real big belly ache to buy Amazon bucks $10 or $20 at a time, mitigating the credit card transaction costs.
You might get those guys to show up for the finalization of a merger...or juicy lawsuit with large television company that has a significant budget to suck dry. Remember, these are IP lawyers we're talking about.
That depends a great deal on what you want to call success. DVD is used by people who don't care about movies or video or how their TV look, and who are also poor. If success for Blu-ray is to displace DVD in the market, then success is exactly getting people who don't care about movies or video or how their TV looks to buy it. Oh, and they're also really poor.
My argument wasn't intended to be that Blu-ray won't succeed, it was intended to be that the transition from DVD to Blu-ray is not comparable to the transition to DVD. If more people understood that they usually sit far enough from their screen to be limited by the resolution of their eye (rather than the screen), Blu-ray would have an even tougher time.
The made about $5 million (Australian dollars) last year.
The credit card companies are not going to enter into a protracted legal battle with significant PR consequences chasing after a few tens of millions of dollars.
I think the outcry is because people have difficulty reading.
It looks like I was also wrong and the terms were included in the EULA simply because someone was lazy; they removed the terms because they don't need to be there and it was good PR (given the silly outcry).
DVD->Blu-ray is a much smaller upgrade than VHS->DVD was, especially if you don't also upgrade your television (because random access and not wearing out are huge features compared to shiny vs shinier video).
The fact that a company is offering an overpriced promotional wizmo doesn't really say all that much about the future of movie distribution (I would expect direct downloads to dominate the low resolution drm-encumbered space that the linked device plays in).
Last year, 2 GB cost about $15. This year, 8 GB costs about $25 (or less...). That's $7/GB -> $3/GB in 1 year (the same size gizmo for each number too) so it isn't crazy to expect 20 GB next year, for about $2/GB. That leaves 4 years of price reductions of a factor of ~2, which is an overall factor of 16, or $2.50 for 20 GB.
That is based on some huge assumptions, but none of the assumptions are particularly aggressive, giving a time line of about 7 years (with a fair chance of it happening earlier).
Part of the reason is that the unions don't like technology upgrades that reduce the number of man hours that go into a vehicle (so Hyundai sells precision robot-welded vehicles for $10,000 less than the Detroit equivalent).
Plenty of surgeons invent brand new procedures. Procedures that they essentially taught themselves.
It makes a lot of sense for them to gain the benefits of the knowledge earned by those who came before them, but the idea that they should not teach themselves is just silly.
On XP, I have 14 tabs open, ff3 has been running for about 36 hours, and private bytes are at 177 MB, with virtual size at 264 MB.
I would guess that you have used a lot of flash and java stuff since you opened it (I haven't noticed Java wake up and I use flashblock), or there are significant differences across platforms.
I am currently telling myself that if 8 GB is available in that form factor now (apparently is uses a slower, denser type of flash), 32 GB will be available in that form factor real-soon-now, so I might as well wait until then to upgrade (plus, 8 GB will be $5 by then).
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There is no separate versioning for the API (and breaking compatibility once in a while is necessary, security, etc., so a more stable extension API would still benefit from some sort of versioning).
Obviously you have never anally raped goatse guy.
Did you read the paper? Here is is if you didn't:
http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
They didn't try to rank how funny the people were, they tried to rank how well they compared to comedians in evaluating the humor of various jokes.
It isn't nearly as bad as your I'm-cool-because-I'm-skeptical attitude would imply.
If the tv shows and movies were ~$0.25-1.00, it wouldn't give me a real big belly ache to buy Amazon bucks $10 or $20 at a time, mitigating the credit card transaction costs.
Otter wasn't:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=954007&cid=24878913
Texas Instruments is equally unlikely to go chasing after $5 million:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=TXN
I guess if preferring 'understanding the actual situation' to 'paranoid speculation' is OCD, then guilty as charged.
Are those steam trains really running with 100 year old parts?
Or do you regularly go in and maintain the various components of you hard drives?
Horses are often used for crowd control -- they are huge (and thus intimidating).
Why does Google software send data to General Electric?
Strange...
The legal system never got involved here.
Quoting the comment I replied to:
You might get those guys to show up for the finalization of a merger ...or juicy lawsuit with large television company that has a significant budget to suck dry. Remember, these are IP lawyers we're talking about.
That depends a great deal on what you want to call success. DVD is used by people who don't care about movies or video or how their TV look, and who are also poor. If success for Blu-ray is to displace DVD in the market, then success is exactly getting people who don't care about movies or video or how their TV looks to buy it. Oh, and they're also really poor.
My argument wasn't intended to be that Blu-ray won't succeed, it was intended to be that the transition from DVD to Blu-ray is not comparable to the transition to DVD. If more people understood that they usually sit far enough from their screen to be limited by the resolution of their eye (rather than the screen), Blu-ray would have an even tougher time.
You are delirious. Amex makes (that's income to shareholders) about $250 million dollars a *month*:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AXP
Mastercard makes about $30 million a month:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=MA
The ownership of Discovery is sort of opaque:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Communications
But some numbers are available (this holding company does not represent 100% of the Discovery channel and related operations):
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=DISCA
(they lost money on about $700 million in revenues)
Beyond Productions is a little more open:
http://www.beyond.com.au/corporate/reports.html
http://www.beyond.com.au/pdf/bil2008_accounts.pdf
The made about $5 million (Australian dollars) last year.
The credit card companies are not going to enter into a protracted legal battle with significant PR consequences chasing after a few tens of millions of dollars.
It is probably something that their insurance company makes them do.
I think the outcry is because people have difficulty reading.
It looks like I was also wrong and the terms were included in the EULA simply because someone was lazy; they removed the terms because they don't need to be there and it was good PR (given the silly outcry).
DVD->Blu-ray is a much smaller upgrade than VHS->DVD was, especially if you don't also upgrade your television (because random access and not wearing out are huge features compared to shiny vs shinier video).
The fact that a company is offering an overpriced promotional wizmo doesn't really say all that much about the future of movie distribution (I would expect direct downloads to dominate the low resolution drm-encumbered space that the linked device plays in).
Last year, 2 GB cost about $15. This year, 8 GB costs about $25 (or less...). That's $7/GB -> $3/GB in 1 year (the same size gizmo for each number too) so it isn't crazy to expect 20 GB next year, for about $2/GB. That leaves 4 years of price reductions of a factor of ~2, which is an overall factor of 16, or $2.50 for 20 GB.
That is based on some huge assumptions, but none of the assumptions are particularly aggressive, giving a time line of about 7 years (with a fair chance of it happening earlier).
The number of people with the equipment to actually benefit from anything more than 16 bit audio is tiny tiny tiny.
Of course, the number of people who think they will benefit is probably a fairly large number.
Part of the reason is that the unions don't like technology upgrades that reduce the number of man hours that go into a vehicle (so Hyundai sells precision robot-welded vehicles for $10,000 less than the Detroit equivalent).
Plenty of surgeons invent brand new procedures. Procedures that they essentially taught themselves.
It makes a lot of sense for them to gain the benefits of the knowledge earned by those who came before them, but the idea that they should not teach themselves is just silly.
How is talking about the obvious disadvantages "going down the wrong track"?
(Yes, there are advantages and benefits, but they aren't the only things that come with unions...)
On XP, I have 14 tabs open, ff3 has been running for about 36 hours, and private bytes are at 177 MB, with virtual size at 264 MB.
I would guess that you have used a lot of flash and java stuff since you opened it (I haven't noticed Java wake up and I use flashblock), or there are significant differences across platforms.
Ultra pure water is also a pretty good solvent (which is probably where the problems start to begin).
The smart ones are. Especially before they go for big.
Yeah, I'm going through the same thing, only my current drive is 2 GB. Of course, it get's worse:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609296
I am currently telling myself that if 8 GB is available in that form factor now (apparently is uses a slower, denser type of flash), 32 GB will be available in that form factor real-soon-now, so I might as well wait until then to upgrade (plus, 8 GB will be $5 by then).