I recall an earlier post today that basically indicates that the more the government tries to oppress freedom of speech, the more clever those with drive will become to avoid such measures.
I do suddenly have an urge to register Bhumibol-Adulyadej-can-go-Phuket.com on behalf of the people of Thailand. But I wouldn't call it clever, really.
Requiring your developers to sign contracts where they agree not to use Adobe's tools artificially limits Adobe's.
Sure, they might be doing it to prevent Adobe's battery eating software from tainting the perception of Apple's devices instead of just being anti-competitive, but Apple should have been smart and worded their requirements in terms of performance and battery use instead of singling them out.
Personally, if I have small kids and I move into a new neighborhood, the lists are invaluable.
Or, like they have been doing in my area, the real(non-urination) offenders just register as homeless and sleep in a van across from the school. Then the lists are kind of useless.
Speaking of European sales, I wonder if any of the European countries will go after Sony for additional VAT and tariffs because the PS3 is now just a gameplaying machine instead of a "freely programmable general purpose computer".
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Pogoplug is not opensource!
So give Pogo the finger and get a Sheevaplug. Exact same hardware, different plastic shell.
Or even better: get a Guruplug, the latest revision that comes with wireless, Gigabit ethernet, and eSATA.
It's more like they sold you a "1 gallon/minute pipe with unlimited usage" and you thought it meant you could use 43829 gallons per month, but it really meant "you can get water 24/7, but you can't use more than 342 gallons in a rolling 30 day period"
It does if you revert the VM after you are done. Nothing gets saved unless the infectious agent can break out of the VM. At worst, it'll send some spam if you allow the document reader VM net access.
Buy a Didj. You can probably find one for under 50 bucks. 400 MHz ARM Linux device that runs on 4 AA, has 3d acceleration, but unfortunately no wireless. Looks like a fat GBA.
That's an interesting question. Are strippers fungible? Some of it is looks, some of it is practice, some of it is customer preference.
If they held existing pricing, they could possible make more as a whole(although perhaps less individually) when unmet niche needs were fulfilled by those who would otherwise not strip in better economic situations.
However, increased supply would probably lead to reduced pricing when newbies charge less to steal business, as it were.
I'd guess that it takes at least a hundred employed people to support one stripper.
So? It takes about 80 employed people to justify my job. Without them, my company would need one less full-time geek. And each of them requires a client with dozens of employees to buy the stuff they make. And each of those companies presumably has hundreds of customers, etc.
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Actually, twinkies only have a one month shelf life, which is pretty long for a snack cake. But crackers, dry pasta, soup, mustard, and lots of other things in a grocery store have longer shelf lives than twinkies.
Now if you had said "longer shelf life than anything in the bakery section", you'd have probably been correct.
Power hungry in the sense that record companies are power hungry. Not necessarily the ability to set prices as they want, but the ability to decide what will be published and what will be a hit.
Books have never been enormously popular, barring some recent kids books, so book publishers were never as blatant as record companies, but there is still an element of "we decide, we make it happen" in publishing. By convincing the buyers from B&N to get a whole trailer plus endcaps instead of a skid, 10K of marketing funds vs 5, a book tour that hits major stores vs a signing in Ohio.
That sort of thing is the power publishers have that justifies them being paid more than the authors, and that is what they want to retain.
If authors only needed get straight rate contracts for publicists, editors, and typesetters with publishing being automatic on the various ereaders, then book reviewers would have more power over the market and the tastes of readers. Amazon sure isn't performing much editorial control over people putting out straight Wikipedia copies.
Excuse the rudeness of this question, but did you even read the first half of my post? I didn't intend to imply my buying habits are representative, I was making an analogy to the buying habits of physical book buyers, of which there are many.
Cheaper books displace more expensive ones in bookstores, thus, ignoring hardware costs and format nostalgia(which are substantial, I only buy ebooks because I was given a reader I would not have bought myself), cheaper ebooks will displace more expensive books online.
I also didn't say that ebook sales are currently higher than physical book sales, only that they are more profitable. While ebook sales are growing substantially, it will take several years for the market to mature.
I'm not arguing that book publishers are genuises or that they have an unerring sense of what will make them money as they transition from one platform to another -- I believe quite the opposite, in fact. I'm just saying that if it were as glaringly obvious that selling at $9.99 was their ticket to riches as proponents seem to think, publishers would keep doing it.
I'm of a mind that the management of publishers are either power-hungry cowards or complete morons, much like record companies. I believe that it is glaringly obvious that ebooks can make more money, especially for authors, but it will eviscerate a large portion of the book distribution industry, cost thousands of low-level jobs, and greatly reduce the power publishers have over the market. If it weren't for the loss of control, I'm sure publishers would go whole hog for ebooks.
That is because A) it gathers more public sympathy, because the prices are jacked up on popular books and B) Amazon loses out to paperbacks for anyone who buys whatever is cheapest at the time they decide to purchase.
That loss of sales is unlikely to be made up by an increase in long-tail & back catalog sales, so Amazon is probably going to see a decrease in book sales over the next few months.
Agreed! After I got a kindle, it greatly displaced my purchases of paperbacks and hardbacks. Until recently, when some books I intended to buy went from 9 to 15 after the pricing kerfuffle. If I had bought the entire series when I started the first, I would've saved a bundle. Now I'm just going to wait until they come back down. Or buy them used, out of spite.
Paperbacks are released months after the hardback because they nearly eliminate the sale of hardbacks. Hardbacks are the most profitable to publishers because they get remaindered(sold at cost) instead of pulped(complete loss).
While the paperback still has the advantages and nostalgia of physicalness, the fact that paperbacks displace more durable hardbacks shows the majority of readers want quantity of content over quality of container. The high price of ereaders prevents many from switching, but once you own an ereader, ebooks consume the hardback market and nibble at the paperbacks.
Thus, if an ebook is equally profitable as a hardback for half the price to consumers, publishers could double their profits once the hardware hurdle is crossed.
I, at least, bought substantially more ebooks, and sooner, when they were cheaper because I usually desire more books than I have money and so previously had to wait until paperback, or just buy less. The only physical books I've bought in the last year have been on sale for less than the ebook or from an author's release party, to be signed.
Now, though, I am more inclined to buy paperbacks(and perhaps scan it) and only buy an ebook if I want it enough to buy the hardback.
Some of the early active countermeasures worked like this after they noticed a countermeasure tumbling at slightly faster than the sampling frequency of the detector caused the missile to think it was moving in a different direction.
Now they've got larger sensors, so they might not need to scan by moving the sensor, but I can imagine similar things being possible. Heck, you wouldn't even need two planes if the emitter can be packaged in a bomb or countermeasure casing.
The key word here is thought. Since when did we start prosecuting people for thought crimes? And precisely who is the victim here (other than the defendant, and possibly the taxpayer)?
For some time now. If you shoot a deer and it turns out to be an animatronic put up for a sting, you still get busted. If a cop sells you chalk, you still get busted for buying drugs. If you sell a cop chalk, you'll get busted for selling drugs. If you proposition a cop in an alley, you'll still get busted for buying sex.
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No, but there is a good chance they'd have some alcohol in them as well.
I do suddenly have an urge to register Bhumibol-Adulyadej-can-go-Phuket.com on behalf of the people of Thailand. But I wouldn't call it clever, really.
How enormous a scanner do you have? Get a $50 USB powered scanner, just the time saved walking should cover the cost
Not to mention eliminating the chance of leaving somebody's medical file on the platen.
Requiring your developers to sign contracts where they agree not to use Adobe's tools artificially limits Adobe's.
Sure, they might be doing it to prevent Adobe's battery eating software from tainting the perception of Apple's devices instead of just being anti-competitive, but Apple should have been smart and worded their requirements in terms of performance and battery use instead of singling them out.
Or, like they have been doing in my area, the real(non-urination) offenders just register as homeless and sleep in a van across from the school. Then the lists are kind of useless.
It's online. Plus the bimonthly flyers usually have a project in them as well.
Speaking of European sales, I wonder if any of the European countries will go after Sony for additional VAT and tariffs because the PS3 is now just a gameplaying machine instead of a "freely programmable general purpose computer".
So give Pogo the finger and get a Sheevaplug. Exact same hardware, different plastic shell.
Or even better: get a Guruplug, the latest revision that comes with wireless, Gigabit ethernet, and eSATA.
It's more like they sold you a "1 gallon/minute pipe with unlimited usage" and you thought it meant you could use 43829 gallons per month, but it really meant "you can get water 24/7, but you can't use more than 342 gallons in a rolling 30 day period"
They don't think they are selling 15 mbit, they're selling 3kbit, 15mbit burst-able
It does if you revert the VM after you are done. Nothing gets saved unless the infectious agent can break out of the VM. At worst, it'll send some spam if you allow the document reader VM net access.
Buy a Didj. You can probably find one for under 50 bucks. 400 MHz ARM Linux device that runs on 4 AA, has 3d acceleration, but unfortunately no wireless. Looks like a fat GBA.
However, it is technically an edutainment device.
That's an interesting question. Are strippers fungible? Some of it is looks, some of it is practice, some of it is customer preference.
If they held existing pricing, they could possible make more as a whole(although perhaps less individually) when unmet niche needs were fulfilled by those who would otherwise not strip in better economic situations.
However, increased supply would probably lead to reduced pricing when newbies charge less to steal business, as it were.
So? It takes about 80 employed people to justify my job. Without them, my company would need one less full-time geek. And each of them requires a client with dozens of employees to buy the stuff they make. And each of those companies presumably has hundreds of customers, etc.
Actually, twinkies only have a one month shelf life, which is pretty long for a snack cake. But crackers, dry pasta, soup, mustard, and lots of other things in a grocery store have longer shelf lives than twinkies.
Now if you had said "longer shelf life than anything in the bakery section", you'd have probably been correct.
You do know that the Israelis have mandatory military service? Everybody fit to serve joins.
Power hungry in the sense that record companies are power hungry. Not necessarily the ability to set prices as they want, but the ability to decide what will be published and what will be a hit.
Books have never been enormously popular, barring some recent kids books, so book publishers were never as blatant as record companies, but there is still an element of "we decide, we make it happen" in publishing. By convincing the buyers from B&N to get a whole trailer plus endcaps instead of a skid, 10K of marketing funds vs 5, a book tour that hits major stores vs a signing in Ohio.
That sort of thing is the power publishers have that justifies them being paid more than the authors, and that is what they want to retain.
If authors only needed get straight rate contracts for publicists, editors, and typesetters with publishing being automatic on the various ereaders, then book reviewers would have more power over the market and the tastes of readers. Amazon sure isn't performing much editorial control over people putting out straight Wikipedia copies.
Excuse the rudeness of this question, but did you even read the first half of my post? I didn't intend to imply my buying habits are representative, I was making an analogy to the buying habits of physical book buyers, of which there are many.
Cheaper books displace more expensive ones in bookstores, thus, ignoring hardware costs and format nostalgia(which are substantial, I only buy ebooks because I was given a reader I would not have bought myself), cheaper ebooks will displace more expensive books online.
I also didn't say that ebook sales are currently higher than physical book sales, only that they are more profitable. While ebook sales are growing substantially, it will take several years for the market to mature.
I'm of a mind that the management of publishers are either power-hungry cowards or complete morons, much like record companies. I believe that it is glaringly obvious that ebooks can make more money, especially for authors, but it will eviscerate a large portion of the book distribution industry, cost thousands of low-level jobs, and greatly reduce the power publishers have over the market. If it weren't for the loss of control, I'm sure publishers would go whole hog for ebooks.
That is because A) it gathers more public sympathy, because the prices are jacked up on popular books and B) Amazon loses out to paperbacks for anyone who buys whatever is cheapest at the time they decide to purchase.
That loss of sales is unlikely to be made up by an increase in long-tail & back catalog sales, so Amazon is probably going to see a decrease in book sales over the next few months.
Agreed! After I got a kindle, it greatly displaced my purchases of paperbacks and hardbacks. Until recently, when some books I intended to buy went from 9 to 15 after the pricing kerfuffle. If I had bought the entire series when I started the first, I would've saved a bundle. Now I'm just going to wait until they come back down. Or buy them used, out of spite.
Simple:
Paperbacks are released months after the hardback because they nearly eliminate the sale of hardbacks. Hardbacks are the most profitable to publishers because they get remaindered(sold at cost) instead of pulped(complete loss).
While the paperback still has the advantages and nostalgia of physicalness, the fact that paperbacks displace more durable hardbacks shows the majority of readers want quantity of content over quality of container. The high price of ereaders prevents many from switching, but once you own an ereader, ebooks consume the hardback market and nibble at the paperbacks.
Thus, if an ebook is equally profitable as a hardback for half the price to consumers, publishers could double their profits once the hardware hurdle is crossed.
I, at least, bought substantially more ebooks, and sooner, when they were cheaper because I usually desire more books than I have money and so previously had to wait until paperback, or just buy less. The only physical books I've bought in the last year have been on sale for less than the ebook or from an author's release party, to be signed.
Now, though, I am more inclined to buy paperbacks(and perhaps scan it) and only buy an ebook if I want it enough to buy the hardback.
Some of the early active countermeasures worked like this after they noticed a countermeasure tumbling at slightly faster than the sampling frequency of the detector caused the missile to think it was moving in a different direction.
Now they've got larger sensors, so they might not need to scan by moving the sensor, but I can imagine similar things being possible. Heck, you wouldn't even need two planes if the emitter can be packaged in a bomb or countermeasure casing.
For some time now. If you shoot a deer and it turns out to be an animatronic put up for a sting, you still get busted. If a cop sells you chalk, you still get busted for buying drugs. If you sell a cop chalk, you'll get busted for selling drugs. If you proposition a cop in an alley, you'll still get busted for buying sex.
They should leave that on all year. It might even cut down on the whining from content scalpers.
Or not.
Or just get a laser level, a webcam, and some substantially cheaper software. Or use meshlab, with some more effort.