a "micro" payment to me would be cool looking horse armor for 25 cents. Still, while there may be some backlash here, I'd expect real outrage if and when they start selling more powerful items that alter competitiveness in multiplayer games.
all the examples cited here about why strong typing is a bad thing and the examples cited to prove that dynamic binding appear to be small, single person projects. totally true for single-person productivity when the only person on both sides of an interface contract is yourself. dangerous thinking for much larger projects. remember: right tool, right job.
If memory serves, Yahoo! bought oddpost, whose schtick was web-based email with RSS feeds integrated as email folders -- wonder if it's the same stuff, or bolted on to Yahoo! mail, or just re-implemented entirely?
It's very common in commerical software licensing deals -- the licensor indemnifies the licensee for any breach of patent, copyright, etc... meaning it's highly likely that First4Internet has probably indemnified Sony in this case, and would be the eventual victims of any GPL-wielding lynch mob!
That may be the best way to influence an 18 year old who just appeared out of thin air. But more realistically, the best way is to influence your children *from birth* to understand the value of education and hard work. In my case, it was being given the opportunity to work in the yard from a very young age to earn spending money (and very little of it). It was bagging groceries, doing random paperwork at a real estate office, even being a receptionist at a hair salon... those things taught me that the people around who had the money either owned the businesses or had education levels that let them do highly skilled work.
I didn't have to be sold on engineering or college at all by the time I was 15. I knew how the other half lived and I knew that being poor would really, really suck.
Why would I play with apple and take a cut of the measley $.99, which is not a very profitable price in the first place?
I wouldn't. I'd lock Apple out of my network and develop my own competing download service and license the same music from the same labels at substantially the same terms. Those contracts from the label are actually pretty standardized now (even for all you can eat streaming deals).
It isn't that Apple doesn't work with the carriers because they're stupid. They don't work with the carriers because the carriers realize that Apple needs them more than they need Apple, and there isn't enough margin or ounces of flesh for the carriers to extract in exchange for Apple's cool brand or interface or whatever they bring to the party (and it isn't license to sell music, a superior billing infrastructure, network access,...).
it's predictable that apple would team up with a handset vendor to go after their common enemy -- the carriers.
The movie I saw documented in painful detail how a pair of no-talent assclowns raised and subsequently wasted a large pile of investor money on a very stupid idea.
Will they omit the part of the movie where the highly trained scientist/engineer's job is shipped off to India? Or will they just cut to the chase and produce the movies themselves in Bollywood?
A business (the movie business), with an unstable labor pool (infinite supply of people with stars in their eyes), short project lifespans (1-2 years),...
yet the movie/tv business has one of the strongest unions around.
A business (the movie business), with an unstable labor pool (infinite supply of people with stars in their eyes), short project lifespans (1-2 years),...
The key bug in your argument is the "except for any part you hold back." That amount is typically at least 70%! And selling off the remainder is difficult (sends bad signals -- lemons theory).
But in the meantime, you would get to give away 8% or so of the money raised to a fatcat banker, get to personally certify your financial statements (Sarbanes), and get to field phone calls from investors, analysts, and everyone else in the public market ecosystem.
IPOs are not the bed of roses most people assume them to be.
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a "micro" payment to me would be cool looking horse armor for 25 cents. Still, while there may be some backlash here, I'd expect real outrage if and when they start selling more powerful items that alter competitiveness in multiplayer games.
What amazes me is nobody at Google seems to even know that. SGI was the hottest company 10 years ago, and occupied those same buildings.
all the examples cited here about why strong typing is a bad thing and the examples cited to prove that dynamic binding appear to be small, single person projects. totally true for single-person productivity when the only person on both sides of an interface contract is yourself. dangerous thinking for much larger projects. remember: right tool, right job.
If memory serves, Yahoo! bought oddpost, whose schtick was web-based email with RSS feeds integrated as email folders -- wonder if it's the same stuff, or bolted on to Yahoo! mail, or just re-implemented entirely?
It's very common in commerical software licensing deals -- the licensor indemnifies the licensee for any breach of patent, copyright, etc... meaning it's highly likely that First4Internet has probably indemnified Sony in this case, and would be the eventual victims of any GPL-wielding lynch mob!
That may be the best way to influence an 18 year old who just appeared out of thin air. But more realistically, the best way is to influence your children *from birth* to understand the value of education and hard work. In my case, it was being given the opportunity to work in the yard from a very young age to earn spending money (and very little of it). It was bagging groceries, doing random paperwork at a real estate office, even being a receptionist at a hair salon... those things taught me that the people around who had the money either owned the businesses or had education levels that let them do highly skilled work.
I didn't have to be sold on engineering or college at all by the time I was 15. I knew how the other half lived and I knew that being poor would really, really suck.
or do you think those 20, 40, and 60 GB iPods out there are all full of iTunes bought at 99 cents each?
Why would I play with apple and take a cut of the measley $.99, which is not a very profitable price in the first place?
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I wouldn't. I'd lock Apple out of my network and develop my own competing download service and license the same music from the same labels at substantially the same terms. Those contracts from the label are actually pretty standardized now (even for all you can eat streaming deals).
It isn't that Apple doesn't work with the carriers because they're stupid. They don't work with the carriers because the carriers realize that Apple needs them more than they need Apple, and there isn't enough margin or ounces of flesh for the carriers to extract in exchange for Apple's cool brand or interface or whatever they bring to the party (and it isn't license to sell music, a superior billing infrastructure, network access,
it's predictable that apple would team up with a handset vendor to go after their common enemy -- the carriers.
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The movie I saw documented in painful detail how a pair of no-talent assclowns raised and subsequently wasted a large pile of investor money on a very stupid idea.
fine. quarantine for X minutes and observe behavior... then hax0r writes malware that hibernates for X+1 minutes...
Will they omit the part of the movie where the highly trained scientist/engineer's job is shipped off to India? Or will they just cut to the chase and produce the movies themselves in Bollywood?
That's got to be several trillion Flooz!
no, it means that 75% of music listeners download music.
that beep pattern you hear from most phones with the ringers on when they get an SMS message is "... -- ..." which is of course, morse code for "SMS"
Oh the irony!
How about combing through the mass of April Fools detritus and posting just the few headlines that are actually, um, funny?
...by someone using a stolen credit card via Paypal.
...so that argument doesn't really hold water.
I'd bet what happens is the guy running that site would be an accessory to murder if it happened.
and the perpetrator if caught in addition to a ride in old sparky would probably be cited for having an unlicensed firearm.
A business (the movie business), with an unstable labor pool (infinite supply of people with stars in their eyes), short project lifespans (1-2 years), ...
yet the movie/tv business has one of the strongest unions around.
A business (the movie business), with an unstable labor pool (infinite supply of people with stars in their eyes), short project lifespans (1-2 years), ...
yet there is a Screen Actors' Guild.
Wireless networks have a much lower Total Cost of 0wnership (TC0) than wired networks!
Wireless networks have a lower Totacl Cost of 0wnership (TC0) !!!
Check this out:
http://www.matrixsemi.com/
The key bug in your argument is the "except for any part you hold back." That amount is typically at least 70%! And selling off the remainder is difficult (sends bad signals -- lemons theory).
But in the meantime, you would get to give away 8% or so of the money raised to a fatcat banker, get to personally certify your financial statements (Sarbanes), and get to field phone calls from investors, analysts, and everyone else in the public market ecosystem.
IPOs are not the bed of roses most people assume them to be.