1. Charge the same money. 2. Get rid of ads; who pays to watch ads? 3. Produce an hour of quality television a day, no "reality TV". 4. Repeat above hour 4 times a day, the other 5 hours in rotation are the shows from the previous hour a day that week 5. Make your entire back catalog available to subscribers on demand.
People who watch more than 6 hours a day are not anyone's target market, you don't need to "produce" 24 hours of content for 24 hour channels, or pay royalties on reruns from 10 years ago to fill the time.
The idea that people are going to pay $80/month to watch out of order reruns on your schedule with ads in them is long overdue a natural death. It's been propped up by people wanting cable internet, but that's not going to do it long term.
Who else but Apple fans pay 90% of retail for year old kit?
And the iPhone is adequate as a "device" and horrible as a phone. There are plenty of similarly expensive Android phones that are every bit as good a device and far better as phones. If you take this article's thesis as gospel and buy a bottom of the line touch screen phone then yeah, you get what you pay for.
Next from the fanbrigade is usually, "OMG, fragmentation!"
Yeah, there's some of that. I can only run Flash on some android devices versus Apple's none. I can only run some versions of Android on my phone where as iOS6 can go all the way back to the iPhone 3G (find the differentiation here).
I would still suggest the iPhone to people I've always suggested buy Apples; 12 O'Clock flashers.
Looks to me like it's gone from $1 to free malware.
Unless the dev can explain a reason why a game needs:
retrieve running apps
Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. Malicious apps may discover private information about other apps.
Other than the obvious reason that it wants to know everything you're running on your phone to report back to the developer.
I want the cost of filing complaints against rights holders reduced to pennies as well, so they can be deluged with trivial notices that cost them a fortune in salary to wade through.
I'm w/ BMO; $100 sounds cheap compared to the eleventy billion dollars every shared copy of mp3 causes in damage.
Yeah, ok. Now show me allowing a particular trusted subnet.
And why do I want "end to end connectivity"?
I still think the problem w/ IPv6 is it has moved addresses from "recognisable with repetition" length to "incomprehensible" length.
It's like that change to the 999 number in the IT Crowd:
TV Advert Narrator: [Voicing an Emergency Services advert] Has this ever happened to you?:[The old woman on the advert twists her ankle and falls down stairs, gets up and falls down second flight of stairs before picking up her phone and trying to dial 999] From today, dialing 999 won't get you the Emergency Services, and that's not the only thing that's changing! [upbeat music starts, followed by close-ups and shots of new emergency vehicles and team] Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers mean they're not just the Emergency Services, they're your Emergency Services. So, remember the new number!:[upbeat voice singing to jingle] 0118 999! 88199, 9119 725! [short pause] 3! That's [number is repeated in similar style whilst the old woman dials the number and waits]
Everyone can instantly see the stupidity of the above, but not why changing 192.168.1.25 to 2001:0db8:3c4d:0015:0:0:abcd:ef12 is just as stupid.
The business model is: 1. File idiotic patent with lots of prior art 2. Block your competitor from selling their equipment for 6+ months while the patent is re-examined in court 3. Pay competitor some fraction of the profit earned in stage 2.
It's a clear winner.
I still say step 2 should only work until you've reached step 3 once, i.e. if you've blocked a competitor based on a patent that gets thrown out you can no longer "win" injunctions, you can only sue for losses after the fact.
Nah, the AC GP is correct. All the Star Trek TV shows are on US Netflix streaming at the moment, from Shatner to Bakula. Depending on how few months it would have been close to when you cancelled.
Still not much in movies though, just that one horrible one w/ the cloned Piccard.
It's pretty standard to have identical cuff keys... the guard opening them after you go into the cell is unlikely to be the arresting officer that put them on you.
I guess the issue here is they at least need something like a magnetic component to be somewhat secure, but I imagine there's actually very little you can do to make a lock that's immune to being defeated if you have infinite prep time.
They should introduce a three strikes system, if you get injunctions and three or more of your patents are struck down, you don't get any more injunctions. You can still sue for damages after the fact, but no more blocking competitors with irrelevant tat.
I think that solves 90% of the problems with the current system. There's still the issue of needing the EFF to provide lawyers to people that aren't able to fight Apple/Oracle etc.. but they're not really that interested in those suits anyway, there's not enough money in the individual's accounts to pay the legal fees.
The problem with the model (as proposed in the summary) is it's a stack per team.
If it was grading on the curve over the entire company it makes some kinda sense but, if you think of this in terms of sport, you get the same bonus for being top performer in division 2 as you do for being the top performer in the premier league.
A lot of teams will be fairly similar in distrubution of stars and failures, but unless you're doing a randomisation of teams quite frequently you can't be sure, and even then it would be far too late.
You also need some savage response to deliberate undermining of co-workers to avoid winning by playing the man and not the ball....
I don't know how old this patent is, but what about Google Desktop (which tbh I hated), or the 20 other local search daemons that have done this stuff for years...?
I don't get what's cool about it either... really. Most of these social networks are collections of people you would never actually socialise with in person even if you could.
It's like the yearbook club has taken over the school.
If it wasn't so ridiculous I'd think it was a Buffy episode and any moment now we'll get the big reveal where Fuckerberg is doing blood magic to get signups.
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I dunno, something I saw in the Matrix. They sounded cool.
What? You're coming through garbled, is there a land line near you? Are you typing this on your iPhone?
Simple solution:
1. Charge the same money.
2. Get rid of ads; who pays to watch ads?
3. Produce an hour of quality television a day, no "reality TV".
4. Repeat above hour 4 times a day, the other 5 hours in rotation are the shows from the previous hour a day that week
5. Make your entire back catalog available to subscribers on demand.
People who watch more than 6 hours a day are not anyone's target market, you don't need to "produce" 24 hours of content for 24 hour channels, or pay royalties on reruns from 10 years ago to fill the time.
The idea that people are going to pay $80/month to watch out of order reruns on your schedule with ads in them is long overdue a natural death. It's been propped up by people wanting cable internet, but that's not going to do it long term.
You are a fanboy. The same as this person is clearly nucking futs: http://www.allbids.com.au/Buy/?T=Apple-iPad-2-3G-Tablet&ID=514722
Who else but Apple fans pay 90% of retail for year old kit?
And the iPhone is adequate as a "device" and horrible as a phone. There are plenty of similarly expensive Android phones that are every bit as good a device and far better as phones. If you take this article's thesis as gospel and buy a bottom of the line touch screen phone then yeah, you get what you pay for.
Next from the fanbrigade is usually, "OMG, fragmentation!"
Yeah, there's some of that. I can only run Flash on some android devices versus Apple's none. I can only run some versions of Android on my phone where as iOS6 can go all the way back to the iPhone 3G (find the differentiation here).
I would still suggest the iPhone to people I've always suggested buy Apples; 12 O'Clock flashers.
I reckon it's more like Company B bot clicks Company A's ads.
I would imagine that could work really well on "campaigns" that have a limited spend to get your competitor's ads off the web for a while.
Either way, I'm also in the FB is a junk stock camp. It's being held aloft by a powerful combination of stupid and optimism.
Enforcing this rule early enough to matter a damn would require a bot...
I can put lipstick on this pig 8 times faster than I can put it on this woman. You want that, right?
"they was excepted by the public"
should be
"they was accepted by the public"
The rest of your colourful scouser accent is fine, but excepted has a very different meaning to accepted ;p
Looks to me like it's gone from $1 to free malware.
Unless the dev can explain a reason why a game needs:
retrieve running apps
Allows the app to retrieve information about currently and recently running tasks. Malicious apps may discover private information about other apps.
Other than the obvious reason that it wants to know everything you're running on your phone to report back to the developer.
Fuck him and his shitty 30 year old game.
Same, though TBH I don't click the checkbox. The advertising isn't intrusive enough for me to be bothered by it and if it helps fund the site, cool.
I want the cost of filing complaints against rights holders reduced to pennies as well, so they can be deluged with trivial notices that cost them a fortune in salary to wade through.
I'm w/ BMO; $100 sounds cheap compared to the eleventy billion dollars every shared copy of mp3 causes in damage.
Mother, phrasing!
I prescribe a teaspoon of cement and harden the fuck up.
If an octal gag is enough to keep brilliant women out of engineering, then it's probably a good thing. They couldn't cope with the stress.
Yeah, ok. Now show me allowing a particular trusted subnet.
And why do I want "end to end connectivity"?
I still think the problem w/ IPv6 is it has moved addresses from "recognisable with repetition" length to "incomprehensible" length.
It's like that change to the 999 number in the IT Crowd:
TV Advert Narrator: [Voicing an Emergency Services advert] Has this ever happened to you? :[The old woman on the advert twists her ankle and falls down stairs, gets up and falls down second flight of stairs before picking up her phone and trying to dial 999] From today, dialing 999 won't get you the Emergency Services, and that's not the only thing that's changing! [upbeat music starts, followed by close-ups and shots of new emergency vehicles and team] Nicer ambulances, faster response times and better looking drivers mean they're not just the Emergency Services, they're your Emergency Services. So, remember the new number! :[upbeat voice singing to jingle] 0118 999! 88199, 9119 725! [short pause] 3! That's [number is repeated in similar style whilst the old woman dials the number and waits]
Everyone can instantly see the stupidity of the above, but not why changing 192.168.1.25 to 2001:0db8:3c4d:0015:0:0:abcd:ef12 is just as stupid.
The business model is:
1. File idiotic patent with lots of prior art
2. Block your competitor from selling their equipment for 6+ months while the patent is re-examined in court
3. Pay competitor some fraction of the profit earned in stage 2.
It's a clear winner.
I still say step 2 should only work until you've reached step 3 once, i.e. if you've blocked a competitor based on a patent that gets thrown out you can no longer "win" injunctions, you can only sue for losses after the fact.
Nah, the AC GP is correct. All the Star Trek TV shows are on US Netflix streaming at the moment, from Shatner to Bakula. Depending on how few months it would have been close to when you cancelled.
Still not much in movies though, just that one horrible one w/ the cloned Piccard.
Man, I think you have that all backwards... they're relying on the popularity of the awesomeness of WinPho8 to sell Windows 8.
It's pretty standard to have identical cuff keys... the guard opening them after you go into the cell is unlikely to be the arresting officer that put them on you.
I guess the issue here is they at least need something like a magnetic component to be somewhat secure, but I imagine there's actually very little you can do to make a lock that's immune to being defeated if you have infinite prep time.
Where is the option to mod this as romantic "literature"?
At least Michael Bay can spell Michael /pet peeve :)
They should introduce a three strikes system, if you get injunctions and three or more of your patents are struck down, you don't get any more injunctions. You can still sue for damages after the fact, but no more blocking competitors with irrelevant tat.
I think that solves 90% of the problems with the current system. There's still the issue of needing the EFF to provide lawyers to people that aren't able to fight Apple/Oracle etc.. but they're not really that interested in those suits anyway, there's not enough money in the individual's accounts to pay the legal fees.
The problem with the model (as proposed in the summary) is it's a stack per team.
If it was grading on the curve over the entire company it makes some kinda sense but, if you think of this in terms of sport, you get the same bonus for being top performer in division 2 as you do for being the top performer in the premier league.
A lot of teams will be fairly similar in distrubution of stars and failures, but unless you're doing a randomisation of teams quite frequently you can't be sure, and even then it would be far too late.
You also need some savage response to deliberate undermining of co-workers to avoid winning by playing the man and not the ball....
I don't know how old this patent is, but what about Google Desktop (which tbh I hated), or the 20 other local search daemons that have done this stuff for years...?
I have a better idea, let's grease you up then release this goose, into like.. the wild!
I don't get what's cool about it either... really. Most of these social networks are collections of people you would never actually socialise with in person even if you could.
It's like the yearbook club has taken over the school.
If it wasn't so ridiculous I'd think it was a Buffy episode and any moment now we'll get the big reveal where Fuckerberg is doing blood magic to get signups.