Both parties support it. You don't think that raving fascist fundamentalist Catholic Tony Abbot doesn't want a repressive filter in place? Then you're more deluded than they are.
Hi Medical Professional here, you may recognise me from such medical products as "Your First Colonoscopy" and the award winning "Bilateral Orchiectomy."
Actually, make that less than AT LEAST a million. I think more people would use RIAA Torrent Site than maybe even Google! And the ability to target ads towards trends would be HUGE!:-)
I take your point. However this is my thinking to the subject:
1) Charge a monthly subscription, like WoW (that's profitable right?) -- I'm sure most people would be quite happy to pay $10 - $20 a month. (I just hope that imaginary media company that did wouldn't use "subscription models" because that's just more of the same. 2) I'm fairly positive that the big media companies would have far more access to potential advertisers, more Google-esque ability to create targeted advertising, say tshirts being advertised for X band... Or DJ equipment to drum & bass fans. I see a lot of potential there. 3) I'm also certain they'd be able to charge more for their advertising, I would be hugely surprised if they made less than $100,000 a month.
To be honest though, I'm talking solely music here. Movies are a different ballgame.
It'd definitely be a potentially risky move, but I think the distribution costs that could be saved by torrenting would be significant. You could do all sorts of great things like knock a dollar of someone's subscription fee when they upload over 5gb in a month... Advertise tours & merchandise at ease. And it'd kill iTunes. Totally kill it.
Wait! Do you mean to say that torrent sites can be profitable WITHOUT the user paying!? Holy crap! So why aren't the big media companies running torrent sites, turning a profit and dividing it amongst the content makers (based on how many times something has been downloaded, you can do that right!?) -- then everyone could be happy!
Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. One backup to rule them all is not going to work. And for mission critical files would have to be backed up several times.
To me it seems obvious. It's not a question of whether Vista is good or bad. To me it offers no perceivable benefits that XP doesn't. That's the real issue Microsoft are facing.
XP is 'good enough' so everyone is legitimately asking: "so why do I need Vista?"
I was thinking exactly the same thing. There's been many times when experts exchange has been the only result to directly answer my query. But if you don't know to scroll down to the bottom of the page you probably think that you need to pay to get the answers..
Even without it being, it jailbroken, it is an enjoyable phone to use. Much more so than any Nokia / Samsung / Sony-Ericsson I've had over the years. And compared to WinCE it's a godsend, a Start menu on a phone? Seriously? Maybe the Blackberry is more functional... However I think that UI and aesthetics are a large part of functionality. The touch keyboard interface is good enough to write emails and I find it just as easy to use as a tinny qwerty keyboard.
At the end of the day I would have an iPhone regardless of whether I could jailbreak it or not. I've had some expensive phones in my time and this is the only one I've actually ever played with.
It's a well designed piece of hardware and I hope it spurs other companies and perhaps the next rethink of the OpenMoko into developing something better.
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Apart from the exclamation marks, I agree. I've experienced good customer service support from both Apple and their licensed support centres.
However when it comes to feature-requests and pointless limitations... Yes, Apple suck. Two usb ports on a Macbook Pro? Ridiculous. Eee's have more.
The 1990's called, the want their joke back. .. infinite loop?
Both parties support it. You don't think that raving fascist fundamentalist Catholic Tony Abbot doesn't want a repressive filter in place? Then you're more deluded than they are.
Communism is the very definition of FAILURE!
It's too bad she won't live! But then again, who does?
Not everyone has asperges.
Every hour on the hour I do ~5 pushups. It might be forced, but I don't see myself stopping doing pushups. I find it helps my coding in some way, too.
Hi Medical Professional here, you may recognise me from such medical products as "Your First Colonoscopy" and the award winning "Bilateral Orchiectomy."
Actually, make that less than AT LEAST a million. I think more people would use RIAA Torrent Site than maybe even Google! And the ability to target ads towards trends would be HUGE! :-)
I take your point. However this is my thinking to the subject:
1) Charge a monthly subscription, like WoW (that's profitable right?) -- I'm sure most people would be quite happy to pay $10 - $20 a month. (I just hope that imaginary media company that did wouldn't use "subscription models" because that's just more of the same.
2) I'm fairly positive that the big media companies would have far more access to potential advertisers, more Google-esque ability to create targeted advertising, say tshirts being advertised for X band... Or DJ equipment to drum & bass fans. I see a lot of potential there.
3) I'm also certain they'd be able to charge more for their advertising, I would be hugely surprised if they made less than $100,000 a month.
To be honest though, I'm talking solely music here. Movies are a different ballgame.
It'd definitely be a potentially risky move, but I think the distribution costs that could be saved by torrenting would be significant. You could do all sorts of great things like knock a dollar of someone's subscription fee when they upload over 5gb in a month... Advertise tours & merchandise at ease. And it'd kill iTunes. Totally kill it.
It'll never happen though.
Wait! Do you mean to say that torrent sites can be profitable WITHOUT the user paying!? Holy crap! So why aren't the big media companies running torrent sites, turning a profit and dividing it amongst the content makers (based on how many times something has been downloaded, you can do that right!?) -- then everyone could be happy!
fail troll is fail
Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy. One backup to rule them all is not going to work. And for mission critical files would have to be backed up several times.
Uhmm..... CP in some circles stands for "Chold Porn"
As Homer Simpson says: No one ever got broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
I'm going to wait until at least the 2nd or 3rd edition...
Look. He invented the frigging iPod okay. Have you heard of it?
To me it seems obvious. It's not a question of whether Vista is good or bad. To me it offers no perceivable benefits that XP doesn't. That's the real issue Microsoft are facing.
XP is 'good enough' so everyone is legitimately asking: "so why do I need Vista?"
So basically, what you're saying is that UNIX is a series of pipes?
Surely a family tree would be considered prior art? Just because a concept is in one of those complimicated nerdlinger putars doesn't make it unique!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_structure .. sounds like prior art to me! Also seems pretty obvious to me!
Yes, redundancy.
I was thinking exactly the same thing. There's been many times when experts exchange has been the only result to directly answer my query. But if you don't know to scroll down to the bottom of the page you probably think that you need to pay to get the answers..
console.log('yes');
People pay for style. There are people that spend hundreds of dollars on single items of clothing: "No hood, less pockets than a Kmart jacket. Lame."
At least this has some functionality and is reasonable well designed! Get over it you consumer fascist! =)
Even without it being, it jailbroken, it is an enjoyable phone to use. Much more so than any Nokia / Samsung / Sony-Ericsson I've had over the years. And compared to WinCE it's a godsend, a Start menu on a phone? Seriously? Maybe the Blackberry is more functional... However I think that UI and aesthetics are a large part of functionality. The touch keyboard interface is good enough to write emails and I find it just as easy to use as a tinny qwerty keyboard.
At the end of the day I would have an iPhone regardless of whether I could jailbreak it or not. I've had some expensive phones in my time and this is the only one I've actually ever played with.
It's a well designed piece of hardware and I hope it spurs other companies and perhaps the next rethink of the OpenMoko into developing something better.