Generally, people won't pay because they are already paying to access the Internet itself.
My own dad thinks of "slow" (dial-up) Internet access the same way as he thinks of cable TV - something extra you pay for to do more with your computer. He thinks of broadband in the same terms as premium cable channels - it costs more, but you "get" more - music, video, etc (even though you can get that stuff over dial-up).
He would equate any paying for content above that as pay-per-view, which he won't touch.
Why does the RIAA think people getting free music is such a bad thing? I get free music every day I turn on the radio. I know it costs *someone* money, but it is free to me.
Methinks downloaders don't see P2P any different, other than it's more convenient to them.
I'm somehow reminded of the Simpson's episode of when they went to Japan and were on the gameshow:
Host: Our game shows are a bit different than those in America.
Homer: How so?
Host: In America, you reward intelligence... here, we punish ignorance.
Homer: Ignor-what?
We've pretty much given up on DHTML-driven apps - they are too hard to modify and maintain.
Use some Javascript to do some form validation and light stuff like that, but at some point you really are better off just repainting the darn screen instead of delving into DOM madness trying to hide table rows and the like.
Being a Microsoft shop, we've pushed hard to move to using.NET web forms, and we've been able to forget that we are writing for web browsers. =)
I agree with you in general, but more customers is more expensive to maintain. I'd almost try to sell the one pen at $1000 instead of managing 1000 customers....
Ok, the first thing that comes to mind is those network PC's I haven't heard bugger about since the big dotcom dive in corporate spending. If they were a good idea (well, maybe this isn't a well thought out argument, feel free to disagree) they'd be on a lot of desktops by now.
A few years back I worked at a hospital where we replaced all the desktop PCs in all the wards with Wyse terminals. While it sounded nice, I didn't think it would work out.
I was wrong. It probably had to do a lot with the fact that we dumped TONS of cash into the Citrix boxen they ran off of, but they had phenomonal uptime, and the only thing users complained about was that they couldn't install anything on them.
To this day, though, I don't see how they would be good on a home-user level.
I signed up for ZoneEdit DNS service that has transparent MX records for email (*@mydomain.com forwards to MyRealAddy@MyISP.com).
I use a new address for everything I do on the web (amazon@mydomain.com for Amazon.com, paypal@mydomain.com for Paypal, etc). They all get forwarded to me anyway.
When I get a spam problem, I make an entry at ZoneEdit to forward the spammed addy to the ether (this@wont.work). As a bonus, I can tell who leaked my addy.
Slashdot Mirror
too... many... potential... jokes...
Seems the FSF guys weren't being so careless afterall...
(This of course doesn't address hardware related issues--all I can say is that MS software is VERY sensitive to borderline hardware)
Whereas Linux will just completely ignore it.
My own dad thinks of "slow" (dial-up) Internet access the same way as he thinks of cable TV - something extra you pay for to do more with your computer. He thinks of broadband in the same terms as premium cable channels - it costs more, but you "get" more - music, video, etc (even though you can get that stuff over dial-up).
He would equate any paying for content above that as pay-per-view, which he won't touch.
I imagine his line of reasoning isn't unusual.
Eh, I've already seen one contrived c-o-n-spiracy theory derived.
Zion sequence? I thought they spliced in clips from MTV's "The Grind".
...and saved them an assload of time. Coming, dear...
Quit giving apps stupid names like Chandler. What the hell does this thing do, automatically record Friends or something?
Methinks downloaders don't see P2P any different, other than it's more convenient to them.
Now I just need to get my sound card working under Linux!
If I had mod points, I would've marked this funny.
Host: Our game shows are a bit different than those in America.
Homer: How so?
Host: In America, you reward intelligence... here, we punish ignorance.
Homer: Ignor-what?
*flamethrower shoots out of microphone*
We've pretty much given up on DHTML-driven apps - they are too hard to modify and maintain. Use some Javascript to do some form validation and light stuff like that, but at some point you really are better off just repainting the darn screen instead of delving into DOM madness trying to hide table rows and the like. Being a Microsoft shop, we've pushed hard to move to using .NET web forms, and we've been able to forget that we are writing for web browsers. =)
I agree with you in general, but more customers is more expensive to maintain. I'd almost try to sell the one pen at $1000 instead of managing 1000 customers....
Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time.
"Depends on what the definition of is, is."
*sees pigs flying*
I've been vindicated.
A few years back I worked at a hospital where we replaced all the desktop PCs in all the wards with Wyse terminals. While it sounded nice, I didn't think it would work out.
I was wrong. It probably had to do a lot with the fact that we dumped TONS of cash into the Citrix boxen they ran off of, but they had phenomonal uptime, and the only thing users complained about was that they couldn't install anything on them.
To this day, though, I don't see how they would be good on a home-user level.
Sorry, that was my website, "Visual Assault".
The user is sneaking around a corner, and fires his weapon. Just as the bullet is about to strike it's target, up pops:
"What are the four characteristics of a transaction?"
Works for me, anyhow.
The same way a certain software company developed Win32, probably.
I'd like to point out that the same thing can be said about ASP.