But we also have a 10-cent price-point for unlimited streaming of a song. You pay 10 cents and you can then stream that song on the website as much as you want. It goes into your online collection. That is there to help us cover our licensing costs that we pay to the labels. Will it work? Some people like it. Are they fools to buy it? Depends on your perspective, but there is always the risk that Lala goes out of business, sure.
It depends on the price point. 10 cents is possibly low enough that people won't be terribly upset when you do go out of business. After all, it's been a while since a jukebox play was that cheap.
It's like Leo Fender and the electric guitar: while he didn't invent it, he certainly made the one that took over the world. Exactly how many IBM 5100's were made?
"Therefor we can conclude that public interaction is unnecessary to having a successful mmog." No we can't conclude that. I think you can contribute the success of WoW to the fact that Blizzard is an already well established company, and WarCraft is an extremely popular franchise.
So, if the success is due to a) Blizzard being well established and b) WarCraft being popular -- where does public interaction come into the picture AT ALL?
Just because WoW is more successful than City of Heroes doesn't mean that _everything_ Blizzard does is superior, and everything that City of Heroes does is inferior.
No, it doesn't, and nobody was implying that it did.
i According to Zennström (co-founder of Kazaa and Skype) whose company skype recently got bought by eBay, Skype will still be run as a separate company by him as the head.
If Zennström no longer holds a controlling interest in Skype (if he ever did), he's not necessarily privy to information as to what will happen to Skype when the dust settles.
The "road kill" scenario is probably not that rare. It happened to me years ago with a pair of SIMMs, and back then their value was probably equal to my fortnightly salary. Luckily my boss just laughed it off...
It's just like in The Exorcist, where they intone "The power of Christ compels you!" over and over, seemingly assuming that a demon would instantly get what it is... I'd think most demons would have a tendency to skip Sunday school.
... Mac Plus. I was ecstatic the first time I saw SIM memory - no more soldering!
Oh yeah? I spent a big part of the summer of 1988 soldering together 1M Mac SIMMs. The real deal was so expensive back then that my boss (an EE) figured he could buy the chips, have PCBs made + have a monkey (me) put them together, sell them much cheaper than Apple & still make a profit.
I don't remember what either the Apple SIMMs or the ones I put together cost, but I do remember that a 300MB external SCSI HD (Jasmine, not Apple) sold for 30000 FIM (all this happened in Finland) which was more than $7000 1988 dollars. Those were the days...
I speak Finnish as my native language.... I have noticed that whenever I read poorly written (grammar/spelling) text, I always have a negative presupposition against it. I just can't help it, it's something so deep in me.
That's the wonderful effect of the Finnish school system, where everyone learns to read and write at least two languages, almost everyone who goes to high school learns to read and write a third one (and even those who don't go have to take a third language for a number of years, learning is another matter though), and many take an optional fourth and possibly fifth language. However, speaking any of those is another matter... as the classes aren't really designed for conversational skills. Or weren't, way back when (although I have no reason to believe things have changed too much since).
And yes, poor grammar annoys the hell out of me too. Especially when I'm the culprit.
Don't need to rewrite it in java, just use a java telnet or ssh client and connect to a box with Nethack on.
And in your opinion that is equivalent to NetHack running on your DVD player? What's more, Java in and of itself doesn't magically make your DVD player sprout things like a network connection, or even a proper keyboard (I'm sure it'd be great fun playing NetHack using a DVD remote).
No one can reasonably hold the belief that vinyl is of higher quality than CD, either.
It's not exactly uncommon for the CD release of a particular album to sound inferior to the original vinyl. The vinyl is also higher quality if the CD hasn't been released at all...
For the movie "Rainman" the airlines cut the scene out where Dustin Hoffman freaks out in the airport and cites airline crash statistics.
Qantas didn't, and here's why:
Charlie: Ray, all airlines have crashed at one time or another, that doesn't mean that they are not safe. Raymond: QANTAS. QANTAS never crashed. Charlie: QANTAS? Raymond: Never crashed. Charlie: Oh that's gonna do me a lot of good because QANTAS doesn't fly to Los Angeles out of Cincinnati, you have to get to Melbourne! Melbourne, Australia in order to get the plane that flies to Los Angeles!
You might just as well ask what is the rationale behind the UK (and Australia, and Japan, and...) driving on the left. IOW, something not perceived as broken is unlikely to get fixed any time soon.
The DVD drive is not a problem -- it picks up the first regional code you use (I haven't checked about getting rid of the RC altogether yet, though; Apple still enforces it in hard- and (!) software, I'm told, which would be dumb thing to do).
Check out VLC. Works like a charm on OS X, and is region-free. I didn't have to set the region code on my iBook at all; VLC doesn't care, and I haven't used the Apple DVD viewing software.
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But we also have a 10-cent price-point for unlimited streaming of a song. You pay 10 cents and you can then stream that song on the website as much as you want. It goes into your online collection. That is there to help us cover our licensing costs that we pay to the labels. Will it work? Some people like it. Are they fools to buy it? Depends on your perspective, but there is always the risk that Lala goes out of business, sure.
It depends on the price point. 10 cents is possibly low enough that people won't be terribly upset when you do go out of business. After all, it's been a while since a jukebox play was that cheap.
It's like Leo Fender and the electric guitar: while he didn't invent it, he certainly made the one that took over the world. Exactly how many IBM 5100's were made?
Which one comes with the free popcorn and drinks, Netzero/Blockbuster or the entertainment system?
i According to Zennström (co-founder of Kazaa and Skype) whose company skype recently got bought by eBay, Skype will still be run as a separate company by him as the head.
If Zennström no longer holds a controlling interest in Skype (if he ever did), he's not necessarily privy to information as to what will happen to Skype when the dust settles.
They seem to be doing just fine even without lasers:
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The "road kill" scenario is probably not that rare. It happened to me years ago with a pair of SIMMs, and back then their value was probably equal to my fortnightly salary. Luckily my boss just laughed it off...
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It's just like in The Exorcist, where they intone "The power of Christ compels you!" over and over, seemingly assuming that a demon would instantly get what it is... I'd think most demons would have a tendency to skip Sunday school.
I don't remember what either the Apple SIMMs or the ones I put together cost, but I do remember that a 300MB external SCSI HD (Jasmine, not Apple) sold for 30000 FIM (all this happened in Finland) which was more than $7000 1988 dollars. Those were the days...
And yes, poor grammar annoys the hell out of me too. Especially when I'm the culprit.
- Vaimoni voisi laittaa meille jotain juotavaa. Onko toivomuksia?
- Teetä kahvia.
Well, even you don't seem to remember that it was not an Apple product. It was the killer application for Apple II, but it was produced by Visicorp.
For the movie "Rainman" the airlines cut the scene out where Dustin Hoffman freaks out in the airport and cites airline crash statistics.
Qantas didn't, and here's why:
Charlie: Ray, all airlines have crashed at one time or another, that doesn't mean that they are not safe.
Raymond: QANTAS. QANTAS never crashed.
Charlie: QANTAS?
Raymond: Never crashed.
Charlie: Oh that's gonna do me a lot of good because QANTAS doesn't fly to Los Angeles out of Cincinnati, you have to get to Melbourne! Melbourne, Australia in order to get the plane that flies to Los Angeles!
Remember what blank CD-Rs cost in those days?
You might just as well ask what is the rationale behind the UK (and Australia, and Japan, and ...) driving on the left. IOW, something not perceived as broken is unlikely to get fixed any time soon.
The DVD drive is not a problem -- it picks up the first regional code you use (I haven't checked about getting rid of the RC altogether yet, though; Apple still enforces it in hard- and (!) software, I'm told, which would be dumb thing to do).
Check out VLC. Works like a charm on OS X, and is region-free. I didn't have to set the region code on my iBook at all; VLC doesn't care, and I haven't used the Apple DVD viewing software.
in the last Euro statistics I have red Italians were #1 household coffe drinkers ("expresso")
Possibly, if you only count espresso. However, Finns consume more than two times as much coffee (per capita) as Italians.