That is for something that is not optional. I flat out will not buy games that have DRM that will make me jump through hoops. If the DRM means it won't work in Wine I can't play it even if I wanted too.
I would say you come away with more net income. I like many people consider anything sub $10 an impulse buy. I regularly check what steam has on sale at less than $10 will pick up any games that looks decent. At above that price I tend to research more and will consider borrowing said game for the PS3. I buy very few new games and me and my coworkers tend to share them for our PS3s rather than each buying them. For the PS2 I have many more games as I can get those for a more reasonable price.
Why not? If they get that level of sales for an old game at a low price, imagine the level of sales for a new title at a discount price. What they get per unit really does not matter, there are basically $0 per unit costs. So total income is the only thing that matters.
Don't worry about the people pirating it, just make it the price at which you make the most money even when some do pirate it. If making it $0.50 would convert enough pirates to buyers than do that, if not don't.
Nope, like all jobs it should pay what the market will bear. If that means minimum wage or a high way that is fine. Either way programming is easier than programming while having to fight some closed source blob that is trying to prevent you from messing with it.
Starting putting all your movies on the drive and you will soon find out how wrong you are. This just means we might be able to stop compressing the hell out of them when we rip them.
If you post on slashdot you should be able to handle that. Not sure about that phone, but most have a simple root app then you just install rom manager and away you go. It handles everything from inside the app.
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No, it will mean that when a big company gets a patent on basically the same damn thing as you, you will be forced to fight about it after the fact in court. This is something most small businesses cannot afford.
No such product exists. All software costs are non-fixed or high when you want new dev done. Such is the nature of all custom work in darn near any field.
The open source model is largely built around doing it yourself or failing that paying someone to do it for you. Like every other model. A big part of that model is paying for new things, like say a driver you want. Clearly you do not want to pay for that so good luck. The only enough to make you buy more model is the closed source one. Selling you licenses and CALs and external connectors that add no value and cost the software vendor nothing to provide.
The free as in speech benefits are numerous, and include the very ability to hire anyone you want to do the work.
Good for you, then I suggest you charge that or find someone that does. For guarantees like that my prices start much higher. Since they might require me to write driver and you think $150, which is half my minimum charge, is too much you could never afford it.
TCO is total cost of ownership, over the life of a typical windows computer more than $300, my minimum charge, will be spent on antivirus and the like.
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Excellent point and the kind of braindamaged thinking common among the drm supporters.
But they made money they would not have otherwise, correct?
Piracy then did not hurt them at all.
That is for something that is not optional. I flat out will not buy games that have DRM that will make me jump through hoops. If the DRM means it won't work in Wine I can't play it even if I wanted too.
I would say you come away with more net income. I like many people consider anything sub $10 an impulse buy. I regularly check what steam has on sale at less than $10 will pick up any games that looks decent. At above that price I tend to research more and will consider borrowing said game for the PS3. I buy very few new games and me and my coworkers tend to share them for our PS3s rather than each buying them. For the PS2 I have many more games as I can get those for a more reasonable price.
Why not?
If they get that level of sales for an old game at a low price, imagine the level of sales for a new title at a discount price. What they get per unit really does not matter, there are basically $0 per unit costs. So total income is the only thing that matters.
Don't worry about the people pirating it, just make it the price at which you make the most money even when some do pirate it. If making it $0.50 would convert enough pirates to buyers than do that, if not don't.
What do you have installed on the XBOX? XBMC can take all kinds of feeds and there are many ways to stream, including using vlc itself to do this.
That sounds like an apple problem, not an app store one. Surely an app store without such restrictions could exist.
I don't download them, they come on these nice shiny discs that I put in the drive and rip.
Nope, like all jobs it should pay what the market will bear. If that means minimum wage or a high way that is fine. Either way programming is easier than programming while having to fight some closed source blob that is trying to prevent you from messing with it.
Some people do use them for work. With VPN + ssh my android phone gets used for work a lot.
So don't base it in the USA. That does not mean folks in the USA can't use it.
No GPLv3 is fine in an app store model. You just can't tivoize it. You also have to make source available, which is easy enough.
Or is there some other clause I am missing?
Which is a much lower barrier to entry. Thanks for making his point for him.
Sure, so long as you are right. If you are wrong let him sue you for slander.
#4 sounds insane. Oh noes don't tell the truth if it hurts someones feelings. Further proof that our legal system is in bad need of reform.
Starting putting all your movies on the drive and you will soon find out how wrong you are. This just means we might be able to stop compressing the hell out of them when we rip them.
If you post on slashdot you should be able to handle that. Not sure about that phone, but most have a simple root app then you just install rom manager and away you go. It handles everything from inside the app.
Nexus one just got an update last week or so, so you seem misinformed.
Droid 1 running 2.3.3 here. CM7 rocks.
Astroturf much?
Holy shit! That was a fucking mess. English translation follows;
No, it will mean that when a big company gets a patent on basically the same damn thing as you, you will be forced to fight about it after the fact in court. This is something most small businesses cannot afford.
No, it will mean that when a big company gets a patent on basically the same damn thing as you, you after to fight it after the fact in court.
My contention is that it either close enough to windows, or not a real alternative anyway so it does not count as a non-windows platform.
No such product exists. All software costs are non-fixed or high when you want new dev done. Such is the nature of all custom work in darn near any field.
The open source model is largely built around doing it yourself or failing that paying someone to do it for you. Like every other model. A big part of that model is paying for new things, like say a driver you want. Clearly you do not want to pay for that so good luck. The only enough to make you buy more model is the closed source one. Selling you licenses and CALs and external connectors that add no value and cost the software vendor nothing to provide.
The free as in speech benefits are numerous, and include the very ability to hire anyone you want to do the work.
Good for you, then I suggest you charge that or find someone that does. For guarantees like that my prices start much higher. Since they might require me to write driver and you think $150, which is half my minimum charge, is too much you could never afford it.
TCO is total cost of ownership, over the life of a typical windows computer more than $300, my minimum charge, will be spent on antivirus and the like.