Someone told me once there was a study where people also are more likely to choose something out of a group if it is clearly superior to another item in the group.
I found this true for myself once, I was looking to buy a DVD and had the usual overload of choices. I noticed that there was a copy of "LXG movie only" for $30, but also a copy of "LXG with special features" for $20. This triggered me buying the LXG with special features. In hindsight, it was the fact that I "knew" I was getting a "bargain" that tipped me over the edge. No doubt it was a deliberate marketing ploy.
A bit sexist to say this, but women seem to be especially targetted by "discount marketing" of this sort. Mainly with shoes:-)
The problem with image/document scaling is that it is different to application resizing. For example, if you scale a picture/document, you basically just want it bigger. If you maximise your word processor though, you want all the icons to stay the same size but the area you type in to display more text. It is the tension between these two that causes much of the problems with web apps.
The whole idea of the web is that any page should display on any user agent. It's the user agent's job to adapt the content to the display, not the server's.
This just shows you're not a web developer. You might as well say that you should be able to put petrol or diesel into your car and the engine should sort it out. There's very little content that's appropriate for both a 2560x1200 screen and a 120x160 phone display...
I am a web developer but I agree with the OP. The original design intention of HTML was to enable content to be platform-independent. Of course the original concept of "content" was "TEXT content". Now we have web developers not only presenting text but also application user interfaces with HTML. Which is to say, it is all a completely broken ugly mess.
The first person who thought it was a good idea to insert script into HTML comment tags should have been slapped with a haddock.
We need a new sort of markup language/web service that can present graphics and UIs in a platform independent manner. HTML was never it. Flash isn't it. Silverlight may or may not be, but probably not because it is tied to Microsoft.
The company has gone out of business. Why is there a need to sue anyone? From my reading of the article, no-one was actually harmed as a result of the security breaches. On what basis would "damages" be awarded?
I was actually referring to the fact that the LOTR movies were coming out at the same time as the Harry Potter books, so there was no way Rowling could have got away with simply recycling Tolkien (like so many other fantasy writers have done).
Truth be told, there was probably marketing synergy with the coincidence of LOTR and Harry Potter.
IMHO Harry Potter actually owes a lot more to the Narnia series than LOTR. Both Harry Potter and Narnia are stories of modern day children with access to a secret magical world (although the Narnia kids aren't so modern any more!).
In any case, my bookshelf is certainly wide enough to accommodate all three of Rowling, Tolkien and Lewis.
Rowling reinvented the epic tale for a modern age. Had JK Rowling had to compete with JRR, things would've been vastly different. No doubt. However, given just the difference of a few decades, JK had a tougher crowd. She brought an epic, multi-book, multi-faceted story to the masses and we took it. This isn't so much as a revival of reading, so much as a revival of writing.
Rowling *did* have to compete with Tolkien. The movies, anyway.
Wow. I absolutely love reading Tolkien because of his use of language; it has a melodic quality that I've not found in any others' writing.
I particularly love to read Tolkien aloud, because this allows the richness to come to the surface. If I'm not reading aloud, I often go too quickly and miss the details and hidden corners of Tolkien's sentences that, while they don't necessarily advance the plot, are integral to his books as works of art. There is no such care or attention to detail in Rowling's words; hers make a workmanlike product that conveys a decent story but bears little resemblence to Tolkien's art.
I guess whether or not one finds Tolkien's language easy to read depends upon experience; I grew up reading and re-reading Tolkien, so his style of language is like an old friend, immediately recognized and warmly greeted.
So you are trying to say that your lips move when you read?;-)
Won't your business be built on shaky ground? What is to stop the MMO makers intentionally or inadvertantly causing hyper-inflation or hyper-deflation through updates to the game?
I'm sick of people who infringe copyright trying to somehow make out that they are victims or do-gooders somehow. Bottom line is that a software/music/video pirate is getting the results of someone else's hard work for free.
If you want to pirate stuff, wear the eyepatch. Admit that you are copying stuff because you want to enjoy it without paying for it. Stop pretending you are somehow making the world a better place, because you aren't.
And why are they called "software pirates" anyhow? Why not ninjas? They're just as cool as pirates.
And while we're on the topic, maybe if they called it something other than piracy it wouldn't be so popular... like "Software Actuary". People wouldn't want to admit "Hey, I logged on to the internet last night and actuaried some MP3s."
And now I will babble like a monkey. ook. ook. ook.
Well then you are entitled to complain about its price. But complaining about missing features that are not actually missing is a bit disingenuous.
I'm no great fan of Office 2007 - I hate the changes to the menu system - but I think it is inappropriate of people to make complaints about its functionality when they haven't even used it.
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Yeah I find it ironic that most systems that use HL7 to transmit data seem to make heavy use of Z.. (user-defined) messages.
Someone told me once there was a study where people also are more likely to choose something out of a group if it is clearly superior to another item in the group.
:-)
I found this true for myself once, I was looking to buy a DVD and had the usual overload of choices. I noticed that there was a copy of "LXG movie only" for $30, but also a copy of "LXG with special features" for $20. This triggered me buying the LXG with special features. In hindsight, it was the fact that I "knew" I was getting a "bargain" that tipped me over the edge. No doubt it was a deliberate marketing ploy.
A bit sexist to say this, but women seem to be especially targetted by "discount marketing" of this sort. Mainly with shoes
The problem with image/document scaling is that it is different to application resizing. For example, if you scale a picture/document, you basically just want it bigger. If you maximise your word processor though, you want all the icons to stay the same size but the area you type in to display more text. It is the tension between these two that causes much of the problems with web apps.
WMP + PrtSc works fine on my Vista box...
I am a web developer but I agree with the OP. The original design intention of HTML was to enable content to be platform-independent. Of course the original concept of "content" was "TEXT content". Now we have web developers not only presenting text but also application user interfaces with HTML. Which is to say, it is all a completely broken ugly mess.
The first person who thought it was a good idea to insert script into HTML comment tags should have been slapped with a haddock.
We need a new sort of markup language/web service that can present graphics and UIs in a platform independent manner. HTML was never it. Flash isn't it. Silverlight may or may not be, but probably not because it is tied to Microsoft.
Actually it isn't all calculations that result in 65535 that cause the problem.
850 x 77.1 gives 100,000
but 85 x 771 gives the correct result of 65535.
Yes, how dare they not test every possible multiplication before release ;-)
I've booked a flight to Bath so I can farm this guy for chocolate coins.
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Dude, so wrong. You've obviously never played a Druid nor seen a Druid in action.
Fighters are wannabe Druids.
Serves Skype right for making their program a systray app that starts when Windows does :-)
Sorry. I have a rabid hatred of TSRs. Particularly those that don't show up in the Startup folder.
The company has gone out of business. Why is there a need to sue anyone? From my reading of the article, no-one was actually harmed as a result of the security breaches. On what basis would "damages" be awarded?
I think you misspelt "Visual Basic.NET" - it has more than four letters.
She does use a few choice swear-words in the final few books, and she often has descriptions such as "Harry swore under his breath" etc.
She uses swear-words the way they ought to be used - sparingly.
I just assumed that since James and Lily were soul-mates, they just coincidentally happened to have similar Patronuses.
I was actually referring to the fact that the LOTR movies were coming out at the same time as the Harry Potter books, so there was no way Rowling could have got away with simply recycling Tolkien (like so many other fantasy writers have done).
Truth be told, there was probably marketing synergy with the coincidence of LOTR and Harry Potter.
IMHO Harry Potter actually owes a lot more to the Narnia series than LOTR. Both Harry Potter and Narnia are stories of modern day children with access to a secret magical world (although the Narnia kids aren't so modern any more!).
In any case, my bookshelf is certainly wide enough to accommodate all three of Rowling, Tolkien and Lewis.
Rowling *did* have to compete with Tolkien. The movies, anyway.
So you are trying to say that your lips move when you read?
I think (just a like a good writer should) she stole the best line from Aliens.
Perhaps this is about Marvel shifting its core business? Does anyone *start* reading comics nowadays, or is the comic book market an aging one?
...to hitch a ride.
Won't your business be built on shaky ground? What is to stop the MMO makers intentionally or inadvertantly causing hyper-inflation or hyper-deflation through updates to the game?
I can see the fnerds!
I'm sick of people who infringe copyright trying to somehow make out that they are victims or do-gooders somehow. Bottom line is that a software/music/video pirate is getting the results of someone else's hard work for free.
If you want to pirate stuff, wear the eyepatch. Admit that you are copying stuff because you want to enjoy it without paying for it. Stop pretending you are somehow making the world a better place, because you aren't.
And why are they called "software pirates" anyhow? Why not ninjas? They're just as cool as pirates.
And while we're on the topic, maybe if they called it something other than piracy it wouldn't be so popular... like "Software Actuary". People wouldn't want to admit "Hey, I logged on to the internet last night and actuaried some MP3s."
And now I will babble like a monkey. ook. ook. ook.
> It's way beyond my budget?
Well then you are entitled to complain about its price. But complaining about missing features that are not actually missing is a bit disingenuous.
I'm no great fan of Office 2007 - I hate the changes to the menu system - but I think it is inappropriate of people to make complaints about its functionality when they haven't even used it.