Furthermore, where is the value of a painting? Is it in that say, Louis Wain might have sneezed on it and embedded a bit of his bodily fluids and bacteria into the picture? Or is it that the picture is actually nice to look at?
The value is in the fact that my $7.2 million purchase price will net me a good return on investment if and only if the painting is not determined to be fake.
b) In most countries online sales are subject to tax and the companies have been required to collect the taxes all along, and guess what? Those countries still have plenty of locally-based companies selling online. The free-ride US shoppers have been getting is not the norm, and is in no way a precondition to having high internet sales.
c) Moving offshort wouldn't accomplish a damn thing anyways. Instead of a sales tax, your customers would now be paying duties on import, which are more of a hassle. You'd have your lunch eaten by the companies who aren't run by cretins.
Unfortunately, as you said, it would probably be rather unpopular at first, even though it's likely to be less expensive for most users than unmetered bandwidth. I don't know what ISPs are like in your experience, but 'round here I can't imagine any of them switching to a pricing structure which sees the majority of their customers giving them less money every month.
If and when pay-per-MB broadband comes, expect the most basic package to cost at least as much as the current standard package costs right now.
All the world ain't the US's craptacular job market, boy. Here, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a dozen companies desperate for software developers. You can (almost) write your own ticket straight out of a decent Comp Sci program.
If an employee's salary demands exceed the profit my company can generate from the goods, then regardless of what other companies are paying, I cannot sustain that salary level. Sure. But this is all very tangential to the article's talk of "unrealistic salary demands from young employees"; If a young employee wants 60k to stay with you because competitor XYZ is offering that, then his demands are not unrealistic. Rather, your belief that you can employee people of his calibre for whatever sub-60K amount you want to pay is unreasonable.
And Ohio, alone, has a third of Canada's population. In large precincts, this is becoming impractical, if not impossible. I'm sure it'd work in smaller cities in the US, too. Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is complete and utter bullshit. Ohio has fewer total voters than Ontario, but paper ballots work in Ontario. Ohio's largest city by metropolitan population, Cleveland, has a population of 2,114,155, doesn't hold a candle to the metropolitan population of Toronto, 5,555,912, and yet paper ballots work in Toronto.
Paper ballots work. They work in small populations, and they work in big populations. This "abloo abloo abloo the US alone is too big for paper ballots" meme needs to die. It's utter bullshit.
This is the problem inherent in the wiki-mindset...then again, who's to say anything released by any corporate news agency is any better (maybe even worse)? Fact-checking and verification is a pretty complex problem that, in the end, will always break down to faith in one party or another. Precisely. That's why the wiki model is inherently superior.
Because, as you say, fact checking in any complex article on anything will almost certainly have broken down at some point. In a newspaper, a TV piece, or a normal encyclopedia, I have no way of seeing the evolution of the piece, and the discussions behind it; I have to blindly trust its accuracy in cases where I don't actively know I'm wrong.
Wikis at least give you extra information to base that judgement on. You still have to make that judgement on everything you ever read in any format, so extra information is always a good thing.
Until a console ships with a keyboard and a mouse, most users of that console will not have one. Yeah, keyboards and mice are notoriously hard to come by. There's only a pair of those in most every household in the country.
This has been proven over and over in the marketplace - keyboard addons for consoles have never met with success. The only way to ensure adoption is to force the issue on every model, even (especially!) on the low-end, or else the console keyboard and mouse will continue to be a niche product that most people aren't even aware exists, much less want to buy. UT3 isn't shipping with support for some proprietary Sony keyboard, it's shipping with straight up "plug any USB keyboard or mouse into the damn USB ports on the front of the console" support. And USB keyboards and mice are not "niche peripherals"
All the "well you wouldn't want them to compete anyways, because keyboard 0wnz controller" posters would do well to remember that keyboard/mouse support has already been confirmed for the PS3 version of UT3.
In order for the bubble to burst, you have to have a price bubble in the first place. Whither the inflated Web 2.0 company stock values? Most of them haven't even IPO'd because of SarBox. Venture capitalists pissing their money away on craptacular Web 2.0 companies isn't the same thing as the inflated stock pricing on Internet companies and the resulting massive correction afterwards.
So I guess the answer is "Sony stuck us again with UMD on the new PSP". It's the exact same hardware we already have, in a slightly more svelte form-factor. Why in the flying fuck would you possibly think they would throw out the UMD format, and with it the ability to play all the games that have already been released for the PSP?
Sony has designs on making money, and consumers sure as hell aren't stupid enough to buy the same machine with no compatibility with all the games already out for the platform. Presumably anyone capable of working a keyboard ought to be able to apprehend these blindingly obvious concepts, but apparently not.
PS3 worldwide sales are so far following the sales trends of the GameCube, with the PS3 getting a small boost from the EU launch. It also follows pretty close to the worldwide XBox sales, which only had a large market share in the US and ignored everywhere else. It's also tracking the sales trend of another console from the last generation.
The author wanted money just to enable the "bookmarks" feature so you could save your connection profiles and select them from a list in the statusbar. I said screw that and I just wrote my own damn program to do it. Took me all of a few hours to get it working the way I wanted. Only functional difference between the two programs is that RDC Menu is more polished (graphics, icons, language translations, etc). I don't know about you, but I bill at $89/hour for software development. At "a few hours to get it working the way I wanted", it would be a far more rational for me to just throw the guy a $20 and use my time more productively.
I'd also say that the idea that "polish" isn't worth paying for, and is something optional and unnecessary is one of the biggest problems remaining problems with the FOSS software development community.
"X revolutionary energy technology is/was buried by Big Oil" is one of the biggest bullshit claims that snakeoil salesmen make, and it doesn't stand up to a half second of scrutiny.
If I'm a big oil company CEO, and it comes to my attention that Fred Fuckwit of Westbuttfuck, Indiana has invented a car that runs on water, what am I going to do? Kill him and bury it? No. I'm going to beg, borrow, steal, or kill my way to securing him and any patents on it before anyone else, because once I have him and those patents, I have a 20 year monopoly on an engine that everyone in the goddamn world is going to want. That's a license to print billion dollar bills.
The whole Big Oil Conspiracy shtick is just a narrative that scam artists use to prey on people's greed by suggesting that they need to get in now before the bad guys get to the technology first; to actually believe that it is true requires a retarded backwards view of economics which imagines that an oil company would love making money off of oil more than simply making money, and would reject an opportunity to monopolize an incredibly desirable commodity.
Which makes for 10 times the possibility of a corrupted vote. And one-tenth the impact of any corrupted counter.
Contrast that with the current situation, where a corrupted vote tabulating program can have an enormous impact, and these objections seem patently ludicrous.
It astounds me that Apple flips the bird to all of the Windows UI conventions for marketing purposes and nobody seems to care. Everything from their own anti-aliasing algorithm for text, their own custom widgets... The stated purpose of Safari on Windows is to give web developers a chance to preview their sites in the browser that the iPhone uses.
How, precisely, do you imagine that such previewing would work if Safari on Windows didn't use the bloody the rendering algorithms and widgets the iPhone will be using? Safari uses different button and form elements on Macs and iPhones, so for Safari on Windows to be the least bit useful for its stated purpose, it has to use those widgets on Windows. Ditto the text rendering algorithms.
Because Apple, unlike Microsoft, has never signed a consent decree with the DoJ agreeing that Windows constitutes a Monopoly in the OS marketplace and is therefore, unlike Microsoft, not bound by Anti-Trust laws which forbid it from leveraging its monopoly in the OS market by tying new products to the OS in order to enter other markets.
I realize that your DoJ has abandoned any pretenses of trying to enforce sane anti-monopoly laws, but do they not teach you people anything in schools?
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Making a copy is not the same as making a branch....
And for fucks sake Subversion, creating a copy in a directory called "tags" is not the same as making an actual tag. The way subversion does "copies" (there is no duplication of shared data between copied directories), there is no difference in practice.
After playing my first MMO, a non MMO seems rather "lonely" and "empty", and I am not even that social. I think that will be hard to overcome. Why, just the other day I was playing Final Fantasy XII, but had to shut it off out of sheer loneliness. It just felt so empty; whither the naked people running around and dancing for no discernible reason? Whither the messages asking me "u want 2 bai goldz"? Whither the people 40-levels above me challenging me to duels every 3.5 seconds in between inquiries into whether or not I am "sum kinda fag"?
Without those things it hardly felt like any kind of immersive story-telling experience at all.
As long as you're intelligent enough to understand what a "metaphor" is, Stevens' description is actually pretty good.
No it wasn't. The "series of tubes" part of the metaphor was ok, but the rest of the metaphor was confused non-sense that corresponding to nothing in real-life and suggests the fact that the quasi-usefullness of the "series of tubes" part is probably more accident then a demonstration of any level of understanding.
Fortunately, you mean. Having a useless title bar consume one of the four extremely valuable screen edges and parking the menu under it is one of the most horrendously stupid violations of Fitts' law in the history of user interfaces.
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Furthermore, where is the value of a painting? Is it in that say, Louis Wain might have sneezed on it and embedded a bit of his bodily fluids and bacteria into the picture? Or is it that the picture is actually nice to look at?
The value is in the fact that my $7.2 million purchase price will net me a good return on investment if and only if the painting is not determined to be fake.
The ESA denies ever having "confirmed" this kids numbers, contrary to the claims of the German tabloid
Why would they? What would that accomplish?
a) It's a sales tax; it costs them nothing.
b) In most countries online sales are subject to tax and the companies have been required to collect the taxes all along, and guess what? Those countries still have plenty of locally-based companies selling online. The free-ride US shoppers have been getting is not the norm, and is in no way a precondition to having high internet sales.
c) Moving offshort wouldn't accomplish a damn thing anyways. Instead of a sales tax, your customers would now be paying duties on import, which are more of a hassle. You'd have your lunch eaten by the companies who aren't run by cretins.
If and when pay-per-MB broadband comes, expect the most basic package to cost at least as much as the current standard package costs right now.
All the world ain't the US's craptacular job market, boy. Here, you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a dozen companies desperate for software developers. You can (almost) write your own ticket straight out of a decent Comp Sci program.
They've already ceased distribution
Because, as you say, fact checking in any complex article on anything will almost certainly have broken down at some point. In a newspaper, a TV piece, or a normal encyclopedia, I have no way of seeing the evolution of the piece, and the discussions behind it; I have to blindly trust its accuracy in cases where I don't actively know I'm wrong.
Wikis at least give you extra information to base that judgement on. You still have to make that judgement on everything you ever read in any format, so extra information is always a good thing.
Rare had been making increasingly crappy games for Nintendo even before they left the fold. Star Fox Adventures was an atrocious pile of crap.
This has been proven over and over in the marketplace - keyboard addons for consoles have never met with success. The only way to ensure adoption is to force the issue on every model, even (especially!) on the low-end, or else the console keyboard and mouse will continue to be a niche product that most people aren't even aware exists, much less want to buy. UT3 isn't shipping with support for some proprietary Sony keyboard, it's shipping with straight up "plug any USB keyboard or mouse into the damn USB ports on the front of the console" support. And USB keyboards and mice are not "niche peripherals"
All the "well you wouldn't want them to compete anyways, because keyboard 0wnz controller" posters would do well to remember that keyboard/mouse support has already been confirmed for the PS3 version of UT3.
In order for the bubble to burst, you have to have a price bubble in the first place. Whither the inflated Web 2.0 company stock values? Most of them haven't even IPO'd because of SarBox. Venture capitalists pissing their money away on craptacular Web 2.0 companies isn't the same thing as the inflated stock pricing on Internet companies and the resulting massive correction afterwards.
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Sony has designs on making money, and consumers sure as hell aren't stupid enough to buy the same machine with no compatibility with all the games already out for the platform. Presumably anyone capable of working a keyboard ought to be able to apprehend these blindingly obvious concepts, but apparently not.
The truth is, it's simply too soon to tell.
I'd also say that the idea that "polish" isn't worth paying for, and is something optional and unnecessary is one of the biggest problems remaining problems with the FOSS software development community.
"X revolutionary energy technology is/was buried by Big Oil" is one of the biggest bullshit claims that snakeoil salesmen make, and it doesn't stand up to a half second of scrutiny.
If I'm a big oil company CEO, and it comes to my attention that Fred Fuckwit of Westbuttfuck, Indiana has invented a car that runs on water, what am I going to do? Kill him and bury it? No. I'm going to beg, borrow, steal, or kill my way to securing him and any patents on it before anyone else, because once I have him and those patents, I have a 20 year monopoly on an engine that everyone in the goddamn world is going to want. That's a license to print billion dollar bills.
The whole Big Oil Conspiracy shtick is just a narrative that scam artists use to prey on people's greed by suggesting that they need to get in now before the bad guys get to the technology first; to actually believe that it is true requires a retarded backwards view of economics which imagines that an oil company would love making money off of oil more than simply making money, and would reject an opportunity to monopolize an incredibly desirable commodity.
How, precisely, do you imagine that such previewing would work if Safari on Windows didn't use the bloody the rendering algorithms and widgets the iPhone will be using? Safari uses different button and form elements on Macs and iPhones, so for Safari on Windows to be the least bit useful for its stated purpose, it has to use those widgets on Windows. Ditto the text rendering algorithms.
Because Apple, unlike Microsoft, has never signed a consent decree with the DoJ agreeing that Windows constitutes a Monopoly in the OS marketplace and is therefore, unlike Microsoft, not bound by Anti-Trust laws which forbid it from leveraging its monopoly in the OS market by tying new products to the OS in order to enter other markets.
I realize that your DoJ has abandoned any pretenses of trying to enforce sane anti-monopoly laws, but do they not teach you people anything in schools?
Without those things it hardly felt like any kind of immersive story-telling experience at all.
As long as you're intelligent enough to understand what a "metaphor" is, Stevens' description is actually pretty good.
No it wasn't. The "series of tubes" part of the metaphor was ok, but the rest of the metaphor was confused non-sense that corresponding to nothing in real-life and suggests the fact that the quasi-usefullness of the "series of tubes" part is probably more accident then a demonstration of any level of understanding.
Fortunately, you mean. Having a useless title bar consume one of the four extremely valuable screen edges and parking the menu under it is one of the most horrendously stupid violations of Fitts' law in the history of user interfaces.