I can't think of any boxed software I've purchased in the last 20 years that did not continue to receive FREE updates.
Stop making excuses. Mobile app stores aren't revolutionizing anything. Selling software is easier than ever, but you mobile app developer amateurs can't figure out how to make money.
If you don't have enough new users buying your software to support your continued development, then just open source it. Stop making excuses for being unable to operate a business selling software. The problem isn't the users or the economic model of owning software. The problem is you suck at business or app development.
Actually, if 95% of the crap devs all went out of business, it would make it way easier to find the great software. So... still only a problem for the shitty devs, not the end users.
4. Develop a product people want and sell it for a price that covers the cost of further development such as bugfixes or desirable content....you know, like a professional would.
If Broderbund and Sierra did so well making new products that people want while minimizing the development costs by reusing existing code, ald you can't, then ask yourself: do I suck at making products people want or do I suck at writing reusable code?
It's not about writing bugfree software. It's about pricing your software properly to include the cost of bugfixing up front. If you can't do that you're an amateur who doesn't deserve my money.
You mean the model where developers keep developing clones of the same apps over and over because the new shit gets promoted? That's the model you want?
Bethesda's argument doesn't make sense. If I am a shopkeeper I can buy things from one market and sell them at my store. I don't have to offer any sort of warranty to do this.
As a former smoker, I can assure you the problem with cigarette butts has more to do with poor city governance than with the behavior of smokers.
If you find litter in your community and there's not a garbage can on every corner, then you should blame your incompetent city council, not litterbugs.
If you find human urine or feces on your city streets and there's not a public bathroom on every corner, you should blame your city council, not the homeless.
And if you find cigarette butts all over and there's not an ashtray on every corner, blame your city council, not the smokers.
Your community needs to provide services for the citizens they have, not the citizens they pretend to have to make the city fashionable.
The value of BTC, like that of any fiat currency, is based on the trust placed in it to have future value, which itself is based on trust. The price fluctuates wildly because, like you say, there's no underlying asset to assess fair value or to provide price stickiness. It fluctuates by the mental whim of those placing value in it, which is imprecise and fickle. But that doesn't mean it's all a gamble. Many phenomena are chaotic and it's impossibne to say anything precise about the phenomena in the immediate future, yet the phenomena can be analyzed through long term trends, and other tools to remove noise.
And it's hard to make a claim that BTC is about to fail when it's doing the same thing it's done for a decade. And it becomes increasingly harder to claim it will fail in the future with every passing year.
Cryptocurrencies aren't one monolithic bubble that gets popped and disappears. BTC has a ten year history with many popped bubbles. The crypto market is a frothy uprising of popped bubbles, but the popped bubbles don't stop the froth from rising.
So, who cares if the bubble popped? I'm in for the next bubble.
If you think short sellers as a rule engage in market manipulation, perhaps you've watched a few too many Hollywood movies about Wall Street's worst actors.
I don't have the time or inclination to correct all the fallacies you hold about market dynamics.
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This is CA. There are more than two genders.
I can't think of any boxed software I've purchased in the last 20 years that did not continue to receive FREE updates.
Stop making excuses. Mobile app stores aren't revolutionizing anything. Selling software is easier than ever, but you mobile app developer amateurs can't figure out how to make money.
If you don't have enough new users buying your software to support your continued development, then just open source it. Stop making excuses for being unable to operate a business selling software. The problem isn't the users or the economic model of owning software. The problem is you suck at business or app development.
Only if version 1.0 was crap. Stop trying to sell us your shitty betas.
Actually, if 95% of the crap devs all went out of business, it would make it way easier to find the great software. So... still only a problem for the shitty devs, not the end users.
4. Develop a product people want and sell it for a price that covers the cost of further development such as bugfixes or desirable content. ...you know, like a professional would.
If Broderbund and Sierra did so well making new products that people want while minimizing the development costs by reusing existing code, ald you can't, then ask yourself: do I suck at making products people want or do I suck at writing reusable code?
It's not about writing bugfree software. It's about pricing your software properly to include the cost of bugfixing up front. If you can't do that you're an amateur who doesn't deserve my money.
So, Google uses location data when providing maps and weather. I am SHOCKED! FUCKING SHOCKED I tell you!!!
You mean the model where developers keep developing clones of the same apps over and over because the new shit gets promoted? That's the model you want?
If your app is such a malware target for your users that other stores have to warn people, then maybe you're doing something wrong, Epic.
Cheap-ass dip-shits will never get a dime from me.
Bethesda's argument doesn't make sense. If I am a shopkeeper I can buy things from one market and sell them at my store. I don't have to offer any sort of warranty to do this.
Why would a video game be any different?
If you don't know where the receptacle is because some asshat hid it 200 feet away, then where do you expect people to deposit their burning butt?
You're a fucking moron or a facist; not sure which.
And how many of those people do you suppose have been conditioned by poor access to receptacles?
Then any smoker coming from another direction will miss it and throw it in the corner by the door, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
About as long as it has taken for crows to start swooping in and stealing food out of the hands or mouths of people.
So, it's gonna be a while...
As a former smoker, I can assure you the problem with cigarette butts has more to do with poor city governance than with the behavior of smokers.
If you find litter in your community and there's not a garbage can on every corner, then you should blame your incompetent city council, not litterbugs.
If you find human urine or feces on your city streets and there's not a public bathroom on every corner, you should blame your city council, not the homeless.
And if you find cigarette butts all over and there's not an ashtray on every corner, blame your city council, not the smokers.
Your community needs to provide services for the citizens they have, not the citizens they pretend to have to make the city fashionable.
You apparently have a poor imagination. There are absolutely reasons to smoke.
For instance, the number one reason is because you want to.
Civil infractions are great. Pay your lawbreaker's tax, and be on your way. Imagine if speeding were a felony...
(yeah, I know excessive speeding CAN be a felony)
The value of BTC, like that of any fiat currency, is based on the trust placed in it to have future value, which itself is based on trust. The price fluctuates wildly because, like you say, there's no underlying asset to assess fair value or to provide price stickiness. It fluctuates by the mental whim of those placing value in it, which is imprecise and fickle. But that doesn't mean it's all a gamble. Many phenomena are chaotic and it's impossibne to say anything precise about the phenomena in the immediate future, yet the phenomena can be analyzed through long term trends, and other tools to remove noise.
And it's hard to make a claim that BTC is about to fail when it's doing the same thing it's done for a decade. And it becomes increasingly harder to claim it will fail in the future with every passing year.
Cryptocurrencies aren't one monolithic bubble that gets popped and disappears. BTC has a ten year history with many popped bubbles. The crypto market is a frothy uprising of popped bubbles, but the popped bubbles don't stop the froth from rising.
So, who cares if the bubble popped? I'm in for the next bubble.
Not to mention the $20B in short interest that will get closed out in a private sale.
Was not familiar, so I looked it up: https://www.nytimes.com/2008/1...
The parenthetical in my comment was a clarification of which short sellers I was referring to, not a description of how short selling works.
If you think short sellers as a rule engage in market manipulation, perhaps you've watched a few too many Hollywood movies about Wall Street's worst actors.
I don't have the time or inclination to correct all the fallacies you hold about market dynamics.