If you are an artist that no one listens to, what did you expect to get, seriously? If you produce good music that people like to listen to you also get good revenue. (and please don't drag "but music is shit now and it was better before" or "mainstream music is for idiots, indies rock" in to this, they are doing worse everywhere)
Spotify is actually an awesome service. For a few years it has almost completely stopped music piracy in scandinavia and in other european countries. Now instead of sending each other mp3 files as file transfer people are just pasting spotify links in IM conversations here. It's something music companies should be proud of, and help it grow even more.
If you really want those on your phone, then iPhone or some Windows Phone 7 device would be good for you. They are up-front secured by the both companies. Not that there isn't any security problems (like the iPhone remote exploit "jailbreaking"), but in general they're much more secure than Android.
They aren't some dedicated proxy servers, they're personal pc's which have been infected and open proxy server has been opened on them. It's easy to find those with google.
What I found stupid, even about the title, was blaming Chinese for it. Gee, I'm pretty sure every hacker stealing 35 million peoples info will connect directly to the target server! I mean, no hacker would ever think of using a Chinese proxy because they're taking so much shit for all the other things too. But of course it's chinese hackers.
There is a recent movie called Super, which is really funny. It even has the "superhero" and his sidekick having sex with each other, true batman and robin style.
In addition to that, they were really easy to craft too. You only needed a few existing items for the soldier and a few scrap metals, and if you have played TF2 even some, you should had have those ready already. I crafted mine immediately when they came out.
It's all about the in-game purchases. Valve has figured it out with TF2, and in a way that doesn't still bring down gameplay for those who choose not to buy items. Korean market was really bad with this, but at least it's done better here. Offer a base game for cheap, and then offer extra if people want it. That way everyone wins - the players who want more will get it, and the companies have more constant revenue stream and reason to create more content.
Like the article states, Hasbro makes more money with the merchandise than the actual show now, so that's why they dont care. And the people posting those ponies are really in pain in the ass. On the forums I visit there's only a few of them, but they're all some 4chan idiots who also like to watch anime and post sad threads about their lost teenage years. Then they go on and spam ponies. What better way to go destroy brand name than annoy tons of people with it, even if it's only done by some idiots thinking it's fun.
I've always liked the KDE interface better anyway. It seems more professional (even back in the 90's) while Gnome has always been somehow "childish". And this was even before Unity-time.
What part of the summary, article or my post did you not understand? This is similar to newspapers posting information about crimes and maybe some relevant pictures and asking public for tips. It has nothing to do with datamining or violating your privacy on Facebook. FB is just the medium used to post that information and ask tips from public because like it or not, it's used by hundreds of millions of people and reaches people better than newspapers.
They aren't filtering anything or violating personal privacy. They're posting information and pictures on their page so that people can visit it (or see updates on their facebook status updates) and leave information if they know something about it. This all has been possible and done before, but now they're just using tools that are more accessible and relevant in the current generation. It's refreshing and good to see, actually.
Maybe most self-identifying windows users can't afford good games, or maybe they really are so ignorant that they think anything that isn't shat out onto a conveyor by EA once a year isn't worth more than they'd spend on a Big Mac. Who knows...
Or what about if you let people themselves judge what is a good game and what is not. Besides, most of these games have been available on Windows for a long time. I owned all of them but Hammerfight and paid the full price for them. I honestly haven't really played those games that much. I did still throw a few dollars to this Humble Bundle because I think it's for a good cause. Does that make me a cheap bastard?
Having heard this from the staff, PS3 and Xbox 360 are mostly trying to compete with each other. This includes both customers and exclusive game developers, like Rockstar and GTA series have been in the past with Playstation. That's also why I think both companies are shooting themself in the leg. While they compete and try to destroy each other, open source consoles like Fuzebox will get a major market share. You can code your games on them and play your favorite old games in an emulator, or modify to the devices to do whatever you want. All that while Sony actively works to close Linux and homebrew software from PS3. It's only a matter of time until Fuzebox and similar consoles will win.
Seriously, the amount of stupid unknowning comments on this (and most other Microsoft articles on slashdot) is mindblowing again. Just because Xbox was first sold at a loss to gain marketshare doesn't mean the same is true today. They also have many other profitable ventures, but I guess you can't just see that behind all the hate.
That is just stupid. The reason why Google can serve better results than Bing is because they get to know a lot of long-tail keyword data from their visitors that Bing just cannot get because of their lower market share and user count. That is why they also have extensive user tracking and usage information gathering services. It's something that you only get if you're a leader in search services, and you only get there if you can get that kind of data better than competitors, which again means Google will stay where it is no matter what competitors do. It's just completely absurd to say that Google is leading only because they have better infrastructure.
Just because you know Google's ads and AdSense doesn't mean you know the whole online advertising business.
But instead of just talking without actual facts, why not look at what GeekNet (Slashdot's parent company) offers. For example Slashdot seems to be offering Standard Display advertisement, which is based on CPM (ad views) that go up to over $100 per 1000 views. Clicks doesn't matter. Then there is Poll Advertising, which costs $50000 a month, and Powerswitch, exclusively designed for Slashdot and goes at $90 per 1000 views. But don't let the facts get in your way.
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If you are an artist that no one listens to, what did you expect to get, seriously? If you produce good music that people like to listen to you also get good revenue. (and please don't drag "but music is shit now and it was better before" or "mainstream music is for idiots, indies rock" in to this, they are doing worse everywhere)
Spotify is actually an awesome service. For a few years it has almost completely stopped music piracy in scandinavia and in other european countries. Now instead of sending each other mp3 files as file transfer people are just pasting spotify links in IM conversations here. It's something music companies should be proud of, and help it grow even more.
Bicycle is a bad example, as it's much as well dangerous as driving car. If you want to travel the safest way, flying is the best option.
If you really want those on your phone, then iPhone or some Windows Phone 7 device would be good for you. They are up-front secured by the both companies. Not that there isn't any security problems (like the iPhone remote exploit "jailbreaking"), but in general they're much more secure than Android.
By using a regular phone with no shit like Facebook, Twitter, Google tracking. It's not that hard.
They aren't some dedicated proxy servers, they're personal pc's which have been infected and open proxy server has been opened on them. It's easy to find those with google.
What I found stupid, even about the title, was blaming Chinese for it. Gee, I'm pretty sure every hacker stealing 35 million peoples info will connect directly to the target server! I mean, no hacker would ever think of using a Chinese proxy because they're taking so much shit for all the other things too. But of course it's chinese hackers.
There is a recent movie called Super, which is really funny. It even has the "superhero" and his sidekick having sex with each other, true batman and robin style.
In addition to that, they were really easy to craft too. You only needed a few existing items for the soldier and a few scrap metals, and if you have played TF2 even some, you should had have those ready already. I crafted mine immediately when they came out.
It's all about the in-game purchases. Valve has figured it out with TF2, and in a way that doesn't still bring down gameplay for those who choose not to buy items. Korean market was really bad with this, but at least it's done better here. Offer a base game for cheap, and then offer extra if people want it. That way everyone wins - the players who want more will get it, and the companies have more constant revenue stream and reason to create more content.
Like the article states, Hasbro makes more money with the merchandise than the actual show now, so that's why they dont care. And the people posting those ponies are really in pain in the ass. On the forums I visit there's only a few of them, but they're all some 4chan idiots who also like to watch anime and post sad threads about their lost teenage years. Then they go on and spam ponies. What better way to go destroy brand name than annoy tons of people with it, even if it's only done by some idiots thinking it's fun.
I've always liked the KDE interface better anyway. It seems more professional (even back in the 90's) while Gnome has always been somehow "childish". And this was even before Unity-time.
What part of the summary, article or my post did you not understand? This is similar to newspapers posting information about crimes and maybe some relevant pictures and asking public for tips. It has nothing to do with datamining or violating your privacy on Facebook. FB is just the medium used to post that information and ask tips from public because like it or not, it's used by hundreds of millions of people and reaches people better than newspapers.
They aren't filtering anything or violating personal privacy. They're posting information and pictures on their page so that people can visit it (or see updates on their facebook status updates) and leave information if they know something about it. This all has been possible and done before, but now they're just using tools that are more accessible and relevant in the current generation. It's refreshing and good to see, actually.
Bitcoin is a great alternative. Bitcoin wiki has a huge list of stores and services from wide array of areas that accept BitCoin.
Maybe most self-identifying windows users can't afford good games, or maybe they really are so ignorant that they think anything that isn't shat out onto a conveyor by EA once a year isn't worth more than they'd spend on a Big Mac. Who knows...
Or what about if you let people themselves judge what is a good game and what is not. Besides, most of these games have been available on Windows for a long time. I owned all of them but Hammerfight and paid the full price for them. I honestly haven't really played those games that much. I did still throw a few dollars to this Humble Bundle because I think it's for a good cause. Does that make me a cheap bastard?
However, they most likely have to pay something to Steam to have such arrangement.
Canada should join Europe instead, we have Spotify and Voddler here.
For Europeans there's Voddler, which is basically Spotify but for movies and tv shows. Both are much better than their US counterparts, too.
Having heard this from the staff, PS3 and Xbox 360 are mostly trying to compete with each other. This includes both customers and exclusive game developers, like Rockstar and GTA series have been in the past with Playstation. That's also why I think both companies are shooting themself in the leg. While they compete and try to destroy each other, open source consoles like Fuzebox will get a major market share. You can code your games on them and play your favorite old games in an emulator, or modify to the devices to do whatever you want. All that while Sony actively works to close Linux and homebrew software from PS3. It's only a matter of time until Fuzebox and similar consoles will win.
No it's not. Yahoo will change to use Bing in 2012. It haven't been changed yet.
Yahoo doesn't use Bing yet. The announcement was made in 2009, but they will transition it in 2012. Long time to do it, I know.
Seriously, the amount of stupid unknowning comments on this (and most other Microsoft articles on slashdot) is mindblowing again. Just because Xbox was first sold at a loss to gain marketshare doesn't mean the same is true today. They also have many other profitable ventures, but I guess you can't just see that behind all the hate.
That is just stupid. The reason why Google can serve better results than Bing is because they get to know a lot of long-tail keyword data from their visitors that Bing just cannot get because of their lower market share and user count. That is why they also have extensive user tracking and usage information gathering services. It's something that you only get if you're a leader in search services, and you only get there if you can get that kind of data better than competitors, which again means Google will stay where it is no matter what competitors do. It's just completely absurd to say that Google is leading only because they have better infrastructure.
Just because you know Google's ads and AdSense doesn't mean you know the whole online advertising business.
But instead of just talking without actual facts, why not look at what GeekNet (Slashdot's parent company) offers. For example Slashdot seems to be offering Standard Display advertisement, which is based on CPM (ad views) that go up to over $100 per 1000 views. Clicks doesn't matter. Then there is Poll Advertising, which costs $50000 a month, and Powerswitch, exclusively designed for Slashdot and goes at $90 per 1000 views. But don't let the facts get in your way.