ProBlogger (i.e. the blog that the./ article links to) is not the same blog in which he has made all this moolah. He mentions that he has made the majority of his 10-20k from 3 other blogs.
Surely if the product is worth it, i.e the value of using the piece of software outweighs that which you spend on it and that on a per time/money basis it is better than the alternative, then you shouldn't be balking at the price.
When I get on a bus, I feel that the value I get for arriving at my destination faster, safer and drier is worth more than the amount saved if I walked.
Similarly, if I pay $x amount for a plumber, the time saved, and money saved (for not having to invest time in learning how to fix a problem, or making a even bigger mistake) outweighs that person's cost.
"Microsoft has announced that it will throw open the floodgates of vulnerability notifications for everyone who wants them" ...and people thought spam was bad. Prepare to find mail-bombed by MS:-)
Anyways, yes, I'm being facetious. This is a good announcement for everyone. I could never understand what the logic was by trying to hide what vulnerabilities were fixed in an update. This should allow those in charge of admin to reasonably evaluate the state and impact of the updates and vulnerability.
Or even better, get file with larget precision of e (or compute it yourself). Iterate through 10 digit consecutive numbers in e and check if it is prime.
Whilst it's easy to take pot-shots at Microsoft when it comes to IE, their update system isn't too bad. Firefox needs a easy to use mechanism for automatically retreiving and installing critical update, in a manner similar to MS windows update service.
Even better, take a leaf out of Norton's liveupdate program.
The problem is that shorter release cycles are not necessarily better for the consumers. For the average consumer, it's hard enough to choose a brand amongst the myriad models out there.
Then the buyer can look forward to having their model devalued with a new upgrade.
The manufacturers, will also lose out as they end up haemmoraging their own profits by reducing the return on research investments as well as losing the opportunity to build up a brand like Apple did with their iPod.
[Person A]I told you before, megapixels don't matter...
[Person B]But it's 500 Megapixels...
[Person A]500 megapixels, 5 megapixels... it doesn't matter. Everyone knows that. It's common knowledge that megapixels is just a marketing trick.
[Person B]But...
[Person A]Look I read slashdot and everyone says the same.
[Person B]ok...
Ignoring legal and social issues for the moment, the underlying infrastructure for emails will need to undergo a change to stop spammers circumventing the charges i.e. using someone elses mail server and changing the headers such as from:
However, it has potential... How about a new protocol allowing different charge amounts to be placed on the mails or for sender to pay recipient. Win-win for both parties?
I hope this doesn't hurt Nintendo by altering mass-market perception into thinking that by offering a cheaper product, it is inferior to the PS2 and X-Box.
Now I have a GC and realise that it is in no way inferior but I wonder what Joe Public will be thinking if he is buying a system for his son?
"Only the best for my son. Give me the most expensive system you have!"
I wonder also how sales assistant will push the systems and if they would use the same argument?
I just hope the market is knowledgeable enough to see beyond the price and realise they're picking up a bargain...
After their unsuccessful movie venture, Square is walking a dangerous line especially as initial reports are saying that takeup has been relatively poor yet the technical infrastructure is unable to handle even this. Hence, large amounts of dissatisfaction even before the usual problems with cheating and administration...
they could stop all the 'deceptive practices' that spammers use.
"you mean I can't make 500k at home and I can't get that free holiday if only I'd give my account details
Seriously tho, if only people take some time to read what they're signing away to, instead of blaming everyone else.
Yes, it's deceptive but it doesn't mean that it should negate your common sense.
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One the problems with OOP is that systems tend to be over-designed and overly-abstracted out. Whilst the result may be elegant, what generally results is a convulated solution which requires a lot of work to utilise practically and efficiently. However, this in no way means OOP is 'flawed'; merely that experience and intelligent design is required instead of applying OOP as a magic bullet or as some systems are applied, a magic rocket.
It's too ugly to be left out in the open and too big to fit in your pocket...
Too expensive to be a PDA and too limited to be a laptop replacement...
I think in the short-medium term, it will still be multiple devices that take off i.e. having PDA,,mobiles, laptops, protable music-players rather than all-in-one units. However, there will be more connectivity between devices. Bluetooth seemed to be a part of the solution but problems (i.e. cost, compatibility, power consumption,availability) have limited its impact.
There was little point in maintaining the company anyways... from a business perspective, the company possessed little which couldn't or hasn't been engineered elsewhere.
Arguing from a brand name perspective also falls apart as it has been damaged in the eyes of the market and consumers in a number of high profile media reports. Many of the original millions of users had no intention of contributing financially and have since moved on to other products... it was mainly a way for them to leech music.
This meant that it effectively was running at a loss with little chance of making money from past 'customers' or attracting new customers. The company possessed little valuable assets and legal cases as well as monetry concerns was killing it off slowly.
The biggest surprise was how it has managed to survive this long...
"...thought that it was unethical to continue to work for a company that was so low on funds it would not be able to pay employees' salaries or give them vacation or severance pay should it fold.
Unethical or just jumping ship before it has sunk? Clearly it was ethics that motivated him to grab his severence pay before the employees...
It's amazing how Atari are constantly heard to resurrect itself only to push out the same games again and again, only to surprise itself when it doesn't pay off profitably...
even in this instance, cheap many-in-one tv classic games systems have been sold so it's not even first with this strategy...
I can just see the lusers typing "You cheater. You're reconstructing the display of a computer by using special hardware and the reflected glow of.... dammit you shot me again":)
Slashdot Mirror
If you need to cook your food in the wilderness or light a campfire, there's an app for that...
The main difference between the ipod and this player is that this player looks like a 50c lighter.
ProBlogger (i.e. the blog that the ./ article links to) is not the same blog in which he has made all this moolah. He mentions that he has made the majority of his 10-20k from 3 other blogs.
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out "Look what I had for breakfast this morning"
Surely if the product is worth it, i.e the value of using the piece of software outweighs that which you spend on it and that on a per time/money basis it is better than the alternative, then you shouldn't be balking at the price. When I get on a bus, I feel that the value I get for arriving at my destination faster, safer and drier is worth more than the amount saved if I walked. Similarly, if I pay $x amount for a plumber, the time saved, and money saved (for not having to invest time in learning how to fix a problem, or making a even bigger mistake) outweighs that person's cost.
Great, another activity which makes you blind:-)
"Microsoft has announced that it will throw open the floodgates of vulnerability notifications for everyone who wants them"
...and people thought spam was bad. Prepare to find mail-bombed by MS:-)
Anyways, yes, I'm being facetious. This is a good announcement for everyone. I could never understand what the logic was by trying to hide what vulnerabilities were fixed in an update. This should allow those in charge of admin to reasonably evaluate the state and impact of the updates and vulnerability.
Or even better, get file with larget precision of e (or compute it yourself). Iterate through 10 digit consecutive numbers in e and check if it is prime.
Apple products working with Microsoft products? What vile heresy is this?
I never understood the point of speed runs in driving games. Why can't we just gently coast and admire the scenary?
Whilst it's easy to take pot-shots at Microsoft when it comes to IE, their update system isn't too bad. Firefox needs a easy to use mechanism for automatically retreiving and installing critical update, in a manner similar to MS windows update service.
Even better, take a leaf out of Norton's liveupdate program.
Substitute books, movies or television for games and you'll see how ridiculous the argument is.
The problem is that shorter release cycles are not necessarily better for the consumers. For the average consumer, it's hard enough to choose a brand amongst the myriad models out there. Then the buyer can look forward to having their model devalued with a new upgrade.
The manufacturers, will also lose out as they end up haemmoraging their own profits by reducing the return on research investments as well as losing the opportunity to build up a brand like Apple did with their iPod.
[Person A]I told you before, megapixels don't matter... [Person B]But it's 500 Megapixels... [Person A]500 megapixels, 5 megapixels... it doesn't matter. Everyone knows that. It's common knowledge that megapixels is just a marketing trick. [Person B]But... [Person A]Look I read slashdot and everyone says the same. [Person B]ok...
Ignoring legal and social issues for the moment, the underlying infrastructure for emails will need to undergo a change to stop spammers circumventing the charges i.e. using someone elses mail server and changing the headers such as from: However, it has potential... How about a new protocol allowing different charge amounts to be placed on the mails or for sender to pay recipient. Win-win for both parties?
I hope this doesn't hurt Nintendo by altering mass-market perception into thinking that by offering a cheaper product, it is inferior to the PS2 and X-Box.
Now I have a GC and realise that it is in no way inferior but I wonder what Joe Public will be thinking if he is buying a system for his son?
I wonder also how sales assistant will push the systems and if they would use the same argument?I just hope the market is knowledgeable enough to see beyond the price and realise they're picking up a bargain...
After their unsuccessful movie venture, Square is walking a dangerous line especially as initial reports are saying that takeup has been relatively poor yet the technical infrastructure is unable to handle even this. Hence, large amounts of dissatisfaction even before the usual problems with cheating and administration...
they could stop all the 'deceptive practices' that spammers use.
Seriously tho, if only people take some time to read what they're signing away to, instead of blaming everyone else.
Yes, it's deceptive but it doesn't mean that it should negate your common sense.
One the problems with OOP is that systems tend to be over-designed and overly-abstracted out. Whilst the result may be elegant, what generally results is a convulated solution which requires a lot of work to utilise practically and efficiently. However, this in no way means OOP is 'flawed'; merely that experience and intelligent design is required instead of applying OOP as a magic bullet or as some systems are applied, a magic rocket.
CV (Resume) that I'm a art connoisseur and I devote much of my spare time to fine arts:)
It's too ugly to be left out in the open and too big to fit in your pocket...
Too expensive to be a PDA and too limited to be a laptop replacement...
I think in the short-medium term, it will still be multiple devices that take off i.e. having PDA, ,mobiles, laptops, protable music-players rather than all-in-one units. However, there will be more connectivity between devices.
Bluetooth seemed to be a part of the solution but problems (i.e. cost, compatibility, power consumption,availability) have limited its impact.
There was little point in maintaining the company anyways... from a business perspective, the company possessed little which couldn't or hasn't been engineered elsewhere.
Arguing from a brand name perspective also falls apart as it has been damaged in the eyes of the market and consumers in a number of high profile media reports.
Many of the original millions of users had no intention of contributing financially and have since moved on to other products... it was mainly a way for them to leech music.
This meant that it effectively was running at a loss with little chance of making money from past 'customers' or attracting new customers. The company possessed little valuable assets and legal cases as well as monetry concerns was killing it off slowly.
The biggest surprise was how it has managed to survive this long...
It's amazing how Atari are constantly heard to resurrect itself only to push out the same games again and again, only to surprise itself when it doesn't pay off profitably... even in this instance, cheap many-in-one tv classic games systems have been sold so it's not even first with this strategy...
I can just see the lusers typing .... dammit you shot me again":)
"You cheater. You're reconstructing the display of a computer by using special hardware and the reflected glow of