Piracy drops because sharing on torrent is pointless (unless you are a linux distro or some sort of big chunk of data).
In my experience most people don't WANT TO PAY! And that's why 99% of the torrents are breaking copyright rules.
Because an album costs between 15$ and $40 in countries where average salary is $250 and where is $2500 (and gives $1 to the artist). Would you pay like 10% of your montly income for an album?
I'm very sure the way of distributing music will change
They did mention that they're only a multi-million dollar operation, not multi-billion, so why invest in a data center of your own?
When you can keep the servers in the back-alley for peanuts. I'm sure that hosting the email on GMail is top privacy.
I just wonder, what their clients have to say about that?
Umm, let me think... opening a case, like on PayPal? Where the two can confront each other? Scanned IDs? Hand written papers like certificate of birth is hard to fake. It's not like everyone is a fucking Photoshop guru. And if you provide a scan with high dpi, it will be really hard to fake. Not fool proof, but discouraging. And if you can't solve that, warn that police might be notified and consequences could be nasty.
Even if you can't handle that, at least pretend you're trying. But they can't do anything about it, because this kind of work is conducted probably by some african vilagers. And moving anything in that direction would cut a slice from Zuckerberg's pie. Who would like that?
Really? My desktop is currently running two virtual machines, one with Oracle, the other with Windows, has 16GB or RAM (not 256K) and i7 with quad-core hyperthreading. I have my email started, my development environment and also I have servers started inside console. All this, while I run hundreds of unit tests.
How many core do you think it would be enough?
Maybe I'm not average user, but average user HAS THE CHOICE to buy a Pentium 4 with 2GB, instead of a Xeon for his PC, and same thing for the phone. I'm convinced that over 90% of smart phone users are buying to brag with it instead of exploiting its features (at least from what I observed here).
But there are some which use GPS to track their runnign etc.
Huh!? Your first assumption is incorrect!
Listening to music while system is checking the email in background and you browse a site IS taking advantage of multicore systems on desktop OR a phone, as long as the OS scheduler is multi-core aware. Phones are multicore to accomplish such parallel tasks.
Applications don't need to be aware of multicore. OS scheduler will take care of that.
Also my old Dell allows installing Linux. Too bad the broadcom wireless works only in g mode and the ATI driver renders porn movies using 3d acceleration at 100% , allowing me to bake some eggs in the mean time.
Yea, because it used to be a... phone. Has a proper signal and loads of battery life. A proper phone is having an excellent battery life (5+ days), an excellent camera and an excellent phone capabilities. For 99% that would suffice. The rest is load of bull for the phone makers to justify the fat price you pay for some crappy features that people (almost) never use.
Kind of reminds me of my useless HTC Tytn II, which I paid $600 for, to have a bad GPS, a bad phone and a very bad organizer. (including the crappy calendar, e-mail, to-do list, tethering, stupid bluetooth, all these which never worked properly). In a small brick packaging.
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I could probably be biased being used to PS. But indeed I use the keyboard a lot. Alt and Ctrl seem to be so natural. Though, latest versions are stuffed with features I would rather pass.
Tried GIMP few times for quick image fixes (using brush, text and layers) but no more than that. Maybe I should read this book.
Btw, the story with 5 years old is truth, too. Although must admit the kid had talent.
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Amen! I would be happy to see more people being honest about it.
I've been used Photoshop about 15 years and I would say Photoshop should be the first example to teach on the UIX classes. It's so great that even a 5 years old could get around in couple of hours.
I don't want to troll about it, I'm a developer and I can appreciate the hard work of people behind GIMP. And their influence over Linux world with GTK. Still I hate to see people comparing saying "GIMP is waaaay better than PS".
From TFA: It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.
Orientals have the most violent, deceiftul and criminal personalitites! Duh!
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Piracy drops because sharing on torrent is pointless (unless you are a linux distro or some sort of big chunk of data).
In my experience most people don't WANT TO PAY! And that's why 99% of the torrents are breaking copyright rules.
Because an album costs between 15$ and $40 in countries where average salary is $250 and where is $2500 (and gives $1 to the artist). Would you pay like 10% of your montly income for an album?
I'm very sure the way of distributing music will change
Writing "apps" like this is like making websites in MS Word
Does it sync with Mac OSX Contacts and Calendar? Without handing over my data to Google (share Google calendar ...)?
No, because it would go mad and overheat the CPU, looking through all that porn.
They did mention that they're only a multi-million dollar operation, not multi-billion, so why invest in a data center of your own? When you can keep the servers in the back-alley for peanuts. I'm sure that hosting the email on GMail is top privacy.
I just wonder, what their clients have to say about that?
What's the purpose of the coin?
Umm, let me think ... opening a case, like on PayPal? Where the two can confront each other? Scanned IDs? Hand written papers like certificate of birth is hard to fake. It's not like everyone is a fucking Photoshop guru. And if you provide a scan with high dpi, it will be really hard to fake. Not fool proof, but discouraging. And if you can't solve that, warn that police might be notified and consequences could be nasty.
Even if you can't handle that, at least pretend you're trying. But they can't do anything about it, because this kind of work is conducted probably by some african vilagers. And moving anything in that direction would cut a slice from Zuckerberg's pie. Who would like that?
"Having a television antenna is every American's right."
Can't every american get his very own antenna from Walmart?
If this means getting rid of THAT part of ./ readers, then ... I suggest to put -1 comments as MD5, too :P
I'd say that rather provides answers to fake problems.
Really? My desktop is currently running two virtual machines, one with Oracle, the other with Windows, has 16GB or RAM (not 256K) and i7 with quad-core hyperthreading. I have my email started, my development environment and also I have servers started inside console. All this, while I run hundreds of unit tests.
How many core do you think it would be enough?
Maybe I'm not average user, but average user HAS THE CHOICE to buy a Pentium 4 with 2GB, instead of a Xeon for his PC, and same thing for the phone. I'm convinced that over 90% of smart phone users are buying to brag with it instead of exploiting its features (at least from what I observed here).
But there are some which use GPS to track their runnign etc.
Huh!? Your first assumption is incorrect!
Listening to music while system is checking the email in background and you browse a site IS taking advantage of multicore systems on desktop OR a phone, as long as the OS scheduler is multi-core aware. Phones are multicore to accomplish such parallel tasks.
Applications don't need to be aware of multicore. OS scheduler will take care of that.
Also my old Dell allows installing Linux. Too bad the broadcom wireless works only in g mode and the ATI driver renders porn movies using 3d acceleration at 100% , allowing me to bake some eggs in the mean time.
WOW! Stevie would twist in his grave when he sees this cheap clone of a MacBook Pro!
-- Good artists copy, great artists steal
Guess what? I have Firefox 18 and already has that. Go to File ... > Print ... > PDF > Save as PDF (also, Save as PostScript). Maybe only on Mac?
From my knowledge it already had PDF built-in, for print preview. Or am I wrong?
Yea, because it used to be a ... phone. Has a proper signal and loads of battery life. A proper phone is having an excellent battery life (5+ days), an excellent camera and an excellent phone capabilities. For 99% that would suffice. The rest is load of bull for the phone makers to justify the fat price you pay for some crappy features that people (almost) never use.
Kind of reminds me of my useless HTC Tytn II, which I paid $600 for, to have a bad GPS, a bad phone and a very bad organizer. (including the crappy calendar, e-mail, to-do list, tethering, stupid bluetooth, all these which never worked properly). In a small brick packaging.
And according to this page, it would cost $11.000 in today's money. Which is not that cheap ...
Was I too subtle?
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Only because productivity it's not in your vocabulary. Than, who am I to judge your grammar ...
I could probably be biased being used to PS. But indeed I use the keyboard a lot. Alt and Ctrl seem to be so natural.
Though, latest versions are stuffed with features I would rather pass.
Tried GIMP few times for quick image fixes (using brush, text and layers) but no more than that. Maybe I should read this book.
Btw, the story with 5 years old is truth, too. Although must admit the kid had talent.
Amen! I would be happy to see more people being honest about it.
I've been used Photoshop about 15 years and I would say Photoshop should be the first example to teach on the UIX classes. It's so great that even a 5 years old could get around in couple of hours.
I don't want to troll about it, I'm a developer and I can appreciate the hard work of people behind GIMP. And their influence over Linux world with GTK. Still I hate to see people comparing saying "GIMP is waaaay better than PS".
Guess what! It's NOT!
From TFA: It is clear that the ugly figure of Jabba and the whole scene smacks of racial prejudice and vulgar insinuations against Asians and Orientals as people with deceitful and criminal personalities.
Orientals have the most violent, deceiftul and criminal personalitites! Duh!
It's goatse!!!!!!!!!!!