Amazon is so intent on opposing commoditization, that they stop authors from selling their work at low prices. I'm acquainted with an author who is trying to build some audience by not-quite-giving-away a couple of his novels at impulse-purchase prices on Kindle, but Amazon insists on selling his ebooks for a higher price.
"The mission, formally called Stardust-NeXT"
I hope for their sake that Steve Jobs isn't sitting at home reading about this infringement of his old trademark.
I just heard about this from friends and coworkers and they all were lead to think (from their own sources I suppose) that the app was actually used for confessing and getting absolved through it.
That would require them to use in-app purchasing, and give Apple 30% of each indulgence.
My first contact with a "real" computer (via an acoustically-coupled modem in high school) was with a DEC PDP, and I cut my programming teeth learning Fortran and Pascal on a DEC VAX in college. That may not be as significant to the world as producing the hardware that Unix was built on, but it was important to me.
But a month from now they won't remember that he was an insensitive asshole. All they'll remember the next time they encounter his name is that it's familiar to them, which will usually lead them to associate it with "famous" or some other vaguely-positive trait.
This is an example of people not understanding the difference between a metaphor and literal statement. When we talk about the president of the US having his finger on the button of a nuclear arsenal, we don't mean that there is a button somewhere that he would actually push with his finger. In fact, if he chose to launch nuclear missiles, he would make a phone call in which certain protocols would be followed, which would prompt additional phone calls and other communications to be made according to established protocols, and eventually a bunch of people would manipulate controls at their stations to initiate the launch. The "finger on a button" is simply a metaphor, something that some people apparently have difficulty grasping.
And the erotic Hummel figurines? What use do they have?:)
Or a treasury bond that can't be cashed for 20 years? No one questions the point of buying bonds; buying a blue chip stock (even one that doesn't pay dividends) is very much the same thing.
Um... the point of owning the stock is that you can choose to sell the stock, hopefully for more money. My motorscooter, my computers, and my collection of erotic Hummel figurines don't pay dividends either, but I own them, which means I can sell them.
Apple requiring a 30% cut on in-app purchases like third-party ebooks based on the fiction that they are facilitating the purchase is bad, but it's not the only issue with this. Apple's content restrictions also come into play because of it.
If you own a Nook and you buy an ebook from the Erotica section of BN.com (through Safari on your iPhone or through your desktop computer, or whatever), or any other ebook that doesn't meet Apple's PG13 content standards, it'll download that ebook to the Nook app on your iPhone (as well as your Nook) and you can read on whichever device is convenient. But if Apple requires BN to also offer their ebooks for purchase "in app", with them handling the transaction, the iPhone's infamous "no pornography" rule applies. So the only way BN may sell you that delightfully trashy erotic ebook is "out of app"... but Apple requires them to also offer it "in app". It's a Catch-22, which can only be resolved by Apple relenting on the content restrictions, or by BN restricting certain ebooks from loading on iOS apps, or by BN just not selling any ebooks that Apple wouldn't approve, or by BN dropping the Nook app. Only one of those options refrains from interfering with BN's business practices. And with my personal reading practices. As someone who has been known to read books of a trashy sort from time to time, I find myself wondering why Apple is inserting itself into the relationship between me and my chosen bookseller. Three's a crowd, Steve.
I'm afraid this explanation would go right over the head of the reporter who wrote this. After facing ridicule in the comments they fixed the absolute worst factual error, which read "Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones." But the rest is pretty clueless too. Who knew that HTML and PHP coders were responsible for the IPv6 transition? Besides Fox, I mean.
Apparently I was (and still am) a lot older than most of those here. I was in college, which in those days meant limited access to cable TV (and obviously no web). All I could do was sit in my dorm room and watch the endless replays of the explosion on broadcast TV instead of going to class. It was a Tuesday; I remember that still. I'm too young to remember the Apollo 1 disaster, or the Apollo 13 near-disaster when I was in pre-school, so it was my first real understanding of the danger of space travel, which - like so many people - I was beginning to think of as something in the past. To this day, every time I see That Photo of the SRBs veering off in different directions, I flinch.
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Amazon is so intent on opposing commoditization, that they stop authors from selling their work at low prices. I'm acquainted with an author who is trying to build some audience by not-quite-giving-away a couple of his novels at impulse-purchase prices on Kindle, but Amazon insists on selling his ebooks for a higher price.
"I agree that the UI puts things in odd places, and some things are done in un-obvious ways." Sounds like a description of Microsoft Office to me.
Next you'll be arguing that giving everybody firearms wouldn't solve everything, which is just... well, OK, it's true.
"The mission, formally called Stardust-NeXT" I hope for their sake that Steve Jobs isn't sitting at home reading about this infringement of his old trademark.
Of course by "scanned" you mean "photocopied" (and that photocopy later scanned).
That would require them to use in-app purchasing, and give Apple 30% of each indulgence.
My first contact with a "real" computer (via an acoustically-coupled modem in high school) was with a DEC PDP, and I cut my programming teeth learning Fortran and Pascal on a DEC VAX in college. That may not be as significant to the world as producing the hardware that Unix was built on, but it was important to me.
This reminds me of Disney's "take over" of Pixar, in which Pixar effectively took over Disney Animation.
But a month from now they won't remember that he was an insensitive asshole. All they'll remember the next time they encounter his name is that it's familiar to them, which will usually lead them to associate it with "famous" or some other vaguely-positive trait.
We're even exporting it, in the form of television programming.
Which is pretty much the same scenario that just played out in Egypt.
This is an example of people not understanding the difference between a metaphor and literal statement. When we talk about the president of the US having his finger on the button of a nuclear arsenal, we don't mean that there is a button somewhere that he would actually push with his finger. In fact, if he chose to launch nuclear missiles, he would make a phone call in which certain protocols would be followed, which would prompt additional phone calls and other communications to be made according to established protocols, and eventually a bunch of people would manipulate controls at their stations to initiate the launch. The "finger on a button" is simply a metaphor, something that some people apparently have difficulty grasping.
And the erotic Hummel figurines? What use do they have? :)
Or a treasury bond that can't be cashed for 20 years? No one questions the point of buying bonds; buying a blue chip stock (even one that doesn't pay dividends) is very much the same thing.
Um... the point of owning the stock is that you can choose to sell the stock, hopefully for more money. My motorscooter, my computers, and my collection of erotic Hummel figurines don't pay dividends either, but I own them, which means I can sell them.
Kevin Lacy should be investigated for practicing assholery without a license, because he appears to be doing professional-level work in that field.
I for one welcome our new 6-digit overlords.
Apple requiring a 30% cut on in-app purchases like third-party ebooks based on the fiction that they are facilitating the purchase is bad, but it's not the only issue with this. Apple's content restrictions also come into play because of it. If you own a Nook and you buy an ebook from the Erotica section of BN.com (through Safari on your iPhone or through your desktop computer, or whatever), or any other ebook that doesn't meet Apple's PG13 content standards, it'll download that ebook to the Nook app on your iPhone (as well as your Nook) and you can read on whichever device is convenient. But if Apple requires BN to also offer their ebooks for purchase "in app", with them handling the transaction, the iPhone's infamous "no pornography" rule applies. So the only way BN may sell you that delightfully trashy erotic ebook is "out of app"... but Apple requires them to also offer it "in app". It's a Catch-22, which can only be resolved by Apple relenting on the content restrictions, or by BN restricting certain ebooks from loading on iOS apps, or by BN just not selling any ebooks that Apple wouldn't approve, or by BN dropping the Nook app. Only one of those options refrains from interfering with BN's business practices. And with my personal reading practices. As someone who has been known to read books of a trashy sort from time to time, I find myself wondering why Apple is inserting itself into the relationship between me and my chosen bookseller. Three's a crowd, Steve.
It's all patently ridiculous. Why would God bother creating stuff that's too far away for Humans to observe it?
I'm afraid this explanation would go right over the head of the reporter who wrote this. After facing ridicule in the comments they fixed the absolute worst factual error, which read "Web developers have tried to compensate for this problem by creating IPv6 -- a system that recognizes six-digit IP addresses rather than four-digit ones." But the rest is pretty clueless too. Who knew that HTML and PHP coders were responsible for the IPv6 transition? Besides Fox, I mean.
No, not partcularly.
Apparently I was (and still am) a lot older than most of those here. I was in college, which in those days meant limited access to cable TV (and obviously no web). All I could do was sit in my dorm room and watch the endless replays of the explosion on broadcast TV instead of going to class. It was a Tuesday; I remember that still. I'm too young to remember the Apollo 1 disaster, or the Apollo 13 near-disaster when I was in pre-school, so it was my first real understanding of the danger of space travel, which - like so many people - I was beginning to think of as something in the past. To this day, every time I see That Photo of the SRBs veering off in different directions, I flinch.
And how much of that are Facebook passing along to the actual victims?
So that rules out the vast majority of visitors: the not-fucking people.
Someone who really doesn't like the new Slashdot design?
In a related ruling, the court banned standing in queues for food in the cafeteria, because it mimics doing the bunny-hop. And spooning.