Create a puzzle that will require the cooperation of all the recipients to complete. The contents of each drive should be tailored to the individual. Computer-savvy people could have an encrypted document or image on their drive; computer dunces could have a simple text file that says "Call Joe at 870-555-1234 and tell him to give the password on his drive to Mark at 901-555-4567." Put hints on some drives, and images, and text files, and passwords, and instructions that, if all are followed, will result in the final unveiling of something cool.
The "something cool"? I don't know. If you have some money laying around, it could result in uncovering a bunch of $10 iTunes gift certificate codes on some web site somewhere. (But it'd have to be done in such a way that each person involved can claim exactly one certificate.)
Ideally, build some redundancy into the puzzle so that even if 10 or 20 people don't participate, the remainder can still get something cool in the end.
If you choose to do this (and I must say I think my idea is pretty awesome), keep me posted on what you do. My contact info is on my/. profile.
The anti-competitive behavior is not the bundling of IE itself, but rather the conditions Microsoft imposed upon OEMs who wished to install/default to other browsers. It has at times entirely disallowed other browsers and at others given a substantial discount for making IE the only/default browser on new systems.
I don't know to what extent this crap is still the case today.
They sort of do get more chances to win; if the winner doesn't respond within 48 hours, they randomly draw a name from all entries. If the winner is an app downloader, who knows if they'll be paying enough attention to reply? They may even think it's SPAM and delete the "You won!" e-mail.
(Now that I read it, the second sentence is equally poorly written. It seems I'm not immune to being struck with the stupids when I see "Comments (0)" on a new post.)
Whenever I try to click the header to go back to the homepage, I get some AJAXy crossfadey filth and a big white box with a small black link that says "Click to Unpause."
What is this garbage? I've supported all the upgrades Slashdot has made since Discussion2 was first tested, but this is some horrific love child between 2009's web techniques and 1995's web incompetence.
Your writing is actually pretty horrible if this post is any indication. Maybe English isn't your native language? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
But let's assume that a lot of people wanted to read books' worth of your writing, and let's further assume that most of them decided to download their copy instead of buying it. Did you provide an easy-to-use, well-designed downloadable version of your book?
If not, then you did not provide what there was obviously demand for, and therefore have few to blame but yourself for your books' failure.
People still buy books they want. People still buy things they want. You just have to make the things you sell worth it.
I think what SuperKendall is trying to say is not that the words are pronounced phonetically differently, but rather that the word is emphasized the wrong way.
It's sort of like the difference between "HE told you that?!" and "He told YOU that?!" Same words, same pronunciations, different meanings.
You fail, dude. He was on your side. He was sarcastically saying that yes, we had wireless Gamecube controllers seven years ago and that you're right: we should have them today as well.
But what would Apple WANT with Psystar? Psystar isn't doing anything interesting, it doesn't have any people doing anything spectacular. They assemble standard PC boxes with commodity hardware and figure out the minor tweaks needed to make OS X run on them.
The only place for Psystar people at Apple would be in, like, their retail stores.
I can't get over this sort of story. "We programmed our INCOMPLETE understanding of the cosmos into this simulation, which tells us X, therefore X is more likely."
Anything based on a computer simulation is based on our arbitrarily incomplete knowledge. To base even the least significant conclusions upon it seems laughably irresponsible and unscientific.
But hey, I was a music major, so what do I know.
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"Affect" DOES mean "to have an effect upon". That's not the disputed definition.
Perhaps when you switch them in your defense of your chronic switching of them, that's evidence that you're wronger than the other wrong people.:)
[Meant lightheartedly, I don't honestly care what you type.]
Your post does not describe this situation. This does:
1) Trademark your game name 2) Let someone else invoke it while doing lots of cool stuff and acquiring millions of users 3) Buy the millions of users at a really good price by making the someone else choose between a buy-out and a lawsuit. 4) Profit!!!
But for many people, they are NOT overpriced for the superior apps written for them. Most *n?x apps are by and best for nerds who love to tinker with every option of every program; most Windows apps are just thrown together to make a quick buck.
But Mac apps, on average, are more thoughtfully designed and crafted than their equivalents on PCs.
That is the very real difference between Macs and PCs, and that's why some people (including, for the first time, in the very near future, myself) are willing to pay the Apple premium.
Maybe you always hit the wrong letters, and maybe I'm the biggest weirdo ever to use a smartphone, but I kid you not, I have better accuracy on an iPhone than I do on a Treo. The fake keys on an iPhone are bigger than the real keys on a Treo, and the keys on a Treo are convex, which makes it a lot easier to slip over to a nearby key.
I actually have a better experience using a regular phone's 12-button keypad with text prediction than I do with a Treo. At least with a regular phone I know exactly what button my finger's going to hit next, and my brain can compensate for text prediction's quirks. But with the Treo's tiny keys (of which three or four are covered up by one thumb, by the way, just like touch screen buttons), a millimeter in the wrong direction means a backspace or two.
In any case, I wasn't meaning to reply to the whole touch screen-vs-buttons argument, I was just shooting down his ridiculous use of the word "unresolvable" when the truth would have been "already resolved".
And by the way, having only used an iPhone for an hour or so in total, I know firsthand that it does the little thumbnail trick in at least two situations: with the keyboard, and one other place (I think on web pages in Safari).
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Create a puzzle that will require the cooperation of all the recipients to complete. The contents of each drive should be tailored to the individual. Computer-savvy people could have an encrypted document or image on their drive; computer dunces could have a simple text file that says "Call Joe at 870-555-1234 and tell him to give the password on his drive to Mark at 901-555-4567." Put hints on some drives, and images, and text files, and passwords, and instructions that, if all are followed, will result in the final unveiling of something cool.
The "something cool"? I don't know. If you have some money laying around, it could result in uncovering a bunch of $10 iTunes gift certificate codes on some web site somewhere. (But it'd have to be done in such a way that each person involved can claim exactly one certificate.)
Ideally, build some redundancy into the puzzle so that even if 10 or 20 people don't participate, the remainder can still get something cool in the end.
If you choose to do this (and I must say I think my idea is pretty awesome), keep me posted on what you do. My contact info is on my /. profile.
The anti-competitive behavior is not the bundling of IE itself, but rather the conditions Microsoft imposed upon OEMs who wished to install/default to other browsers. It has at times entirely disallowed other browsers and at others given a substantial discount for making IE the only/default browser on new systems.
I don't know to what extent this crap is still the case today.
They sort of do get more chances to win; if the winner doesn't respond within 48 hours, they randomly draw a name from all entries. If the winner is an app downloader, who knows if they'll be paying enough attention to reply? They may even think it's SPAM and delete the "You won!" e-mail.
(Now that I read it, the second sentence is equally poorly written. It seems I'm not immune to being struck with the stupids when I see "Comments (0)" on a new post.)
(*"THAT". The reason is simply THAT netbooks have changed from a etc. Not "because." Yeesh.)
Of course the actual reason Linux's share of netbooks has dropped is simply because netbooks have changed from a nerds' thing into a mainstream thing.
UNIX's marketshare of all computers did the exact same percentage decline over time as netbooks are having now. It's the early adopters, stupid!
Whenever I try to click the header to go back to the homepage, I get some AJAXy crossfadey filth and a big white box with a small black link that says "Click to Unpause."
What is this garbage? I've supported all the upgrades Slashdot has made since Discussion2 was first tested, but this is some horrific love child between 2009's web techniques and 1995's web incompetence.
Anyone else out there with me on this?
Your writing is actually pretty horrible if this post is any indication. Maybe English isn't your native language? I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
But let's assume that a lot of people wanted to read books' worth of your writing, and let's further assume that most of them decided to download their copy instead of buying it. Did you provide an easy-to-use, well-designed downloadable version of your book?
If not, then you did not provide what there was obviously demand for, and therefore have few to blame but yourself for your books' failure.
People still buy books they want. People still buy things they want. You just have to make the things you sell worth it.
I think what SuperKendall is trying to say is not that the words are pronounced phonetically differently, but rather that the word is emphasized the wrong way. It's sort of like the difference between "HE told you that?!" and "He told YOU that?!" Same words, same pronunciations, different meanings.
GGP was not talking about games on a specific controller; he was just saying that the Wii needs more good games, period.
Non sequitur. Did you even read your parent post? He said he was talking about first-person shooters.
You fail, dude. He was on your side. He was sarcastically saying that yes, we had wireless Gamecube controllers seven years ago and that you're right: we should have them today as well.
Were you in Choru, Ubiru, Cyan internal, or other? (If you don't know what any of that means, that's answer enough. :) )
But what would Apple WANT with Psystar? Psystar isn't doing anything interesting, it doesn't have any people doing anything spectacular. They assemble standard PC boxes with commodity hardware and figure out the minor tweaks needed to make OS X run on them.
The only place for Psystar people at Apple would be in, like, their retail stores.
I can't get over this sort of story. "We programmed our INCOMPLETE understanding of the cosmos into this simulation, which tells us X, therefore X is more likely."
Anything based on a computer simulation is based on our arbitrarily incomplete knowledge. To base even the least significant conclusions upon it seems laughably irresponsible and unscientific.
But hey, I was a music major, so what do I know.
"Affect" DOES mean "to have an effect upon". That's not the disputed definition.
Perhaps when you switch them in your defense of your chronic switching of them, that's evidence that you're wronger than the other wrong people. :)
[Meant lightheartedly, I don't honestly care what you type.]
Maybe someone needs to look up the word "Preemptive"?
Your post does not describe this situation. This does:
1) Trademark your game name
2) Let someone else invoke it while doing lots of cool stuff and acquiring millions of users
3) Buy the millions of users at a really good price by making the someone else choose between a buy-out and a lawsuit.
4) Profit!!!
Makes more sense, yeah?
You should read about the real Hungarian notation, instead of the pointlessness that got propagated as Hungarian.
You've not quite got it right; see my earlier comment.
See my reply above.
Hungarian notation has a bad rap because the idiots who propagated it didn't understand English.
Read Spoksky's article that talks about Hungarian, then come back and say it's harmful.
You seem to be laboring under the misimpression that China doesn't have the power of life or death over us.
Design != skinning. Design is how it works, not how it looks.
But for many people, they are NOT overpriced for the superior apps written for them. Most *n?x apps are by and best for nerds who love to tinker with every option of every program; most Windows apps are just thrown together to make a quick buck.
But Mac apps, on average, are more thoughtfully designed and crafted than their equivalents on PCs.
That is the very real difference between Macs and PCs, and that's why some people (including, for the first time, in the very near future, myself) are willing to pay the Apple premium.
Maybe you always hit the wrong letters, and maybe I'm the biggest weirdo ever to use a smartphone, but I kid you not, I have better accuracy on an iPhone than I do on a Treo. The fake keys on an iPhone are bigger than the real keys on a Treo, and the keys on a Treo are convex, which makes it a lot easier to slip over to a nearby key.
I actually have a better experience using a regular phone's 12-button keypad with text prediction than I do with a Treo. At least with a regular phone I know exactly what button my finger's going to hit next, and my brain can compensate for text prediction's quirks. But with the Treo's tiny keys (of which three or four are covered up by one thumb, by the way, just like touch screen buttons), a millimeter in the wrong direction means a backspace or two.
In any case, I wasn't meaning to reply to the whole touch screen-vs-buttons argument, I was just shooting down his ridiculous use of the word "unresolvable" when the truth would have been "already resolved".
And by the way, having only used an iPhone for an hour or so in total, I know firsthand that it does the little thumbnail trick in at least two situations: with the keyboard, and one other place (I think on web pages in Safari).