The high Seattle rents are not caused by the $15 Now, rather they are caused by all the tech companies bringing large numbers of highly-paid people into the area, driving up demand for limited housing.
LinkedIn does *not* demand email accounts or address books. They may give you the option to import such, but you can easily say 'no' and use LinkedIn without such. I did that with my account.
I went to that web site, read the literature, and listened to the recording. In my opinion, Marc Perkel hasn't shown that anything that PayPal did was unreasonable or wrong, but simply that he didn't like it. I happened to write him a reply to his blog too:
Any legitimate issues raised by others aside... Marc, I listened to your recording in its entirety plus your other written info and I can't find anything wrong with Paypal's policy as revealed on your website. The only outstanding issue that you are raising is that they are holding your money for 180 days, to fully cover any possible charge-backs by your customers. After that time, you will get it back. Its not like they are keeping it forever. PayPal is doing what any decent merchant would do, which is protecting the customers. And yes, they are a merchant, like yourself, and not a bank or a credit card. I empathize with you for the wait you will have to endure, but I don't see that you have proven any wrong-doing on their part.
Despite advocating free speech otherwise, it seems that the guy didn't like what I said and deleted my reply from the forum. That's his right, but so much for logical arguments.
Here's a solicited reply that I did send to the author:
Hello Eliot Van Buskirk,
This email is in regards to your CNET Reviews article titled "Five reasons not to buy an iPod" which is at [snip-for-lameness-filter].
My main concern that I wanted to bring up was your 5th point, entitled "5. You want a choice in online music stores".
Specifically, I don't consider the choice of online retailers to be as important as the choice of music file formats. You mention several stores as examples, such as BuyMusic, Musicmatch, and Napster, but they all offer Microsoft's proprietary WMA file format and nothing else. So if you want to buy your music in a format which isn't WMA, you have no other choice with those retailers.
At the end of the day, once the music is bought, all that you care about is what you can do with it, as the store is now out of the picture. WMA still restricts the music buyers in a lot more ways than AAC does.
So what you claim to be a greater amount of choice alternate to Apple's offering isn't really a choice at all. Its all WMA outside Apple regarding 'legal' music downloads. And any other choices are in the non-DRM realm, which the RIAA doesn't like.
So the real thing that your readers need to choose between is whether they want AAC or WMA (or a free and RIAA-illegal MP3 and others). In this respect, all of the WMA-using stores are lumped together in one pseudo-entity. So music buyers' choice then really comes down to what file format offers the music they want.
To my knowledge, Apple/AAC generally has a much wider selection, as well as better mind share with the people that make the music, who are clamoring to be listed on the iTunes music store, and especially a lot of independant artists.
SQL Generator? And it handles subselects, inline views, grouping, multiple outer joins, and functions?
Yes, a SQL Generator can handle all of those things, and do so elegantly, and be quick running and easy to use.
I am making such a thing myself. Initially in Perl, followed by a C version. Go to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rosetta to see it (you may want to wait for r0.18). My time frame is to be mostly done within a few months.
Or - is that too difficult to generate, forcing you to make up for this thru additional application code and reduced application functionality?
All of the other generators I know of have this problem, hence my making of a better one that does not.
Now, a simple guestion: how is Apple going to handle the immense problem with increasing version numbers....11 is not very far anymore:)
I think they are already taking care of the problem by using 10.X increments rather than X.0 increments. For example, they used 10.2 Jaguar rather than 11.0 Jaguar. People complain about having to pay for a point release, while Jaguar is a major upgrade. The only real reason that Apple has called it 10.2 is for branding; they want to keep using "X" as long as possible.
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The high Seattle rents are not caused by the $15 Now, rather they are caused by all the tech companies bringing large numbers of highly-paid people into the area, driving up demand for limited housing.
LinkedIn does *not* demand email accounts or address books. They may give you the option to import such, but you can easily say 'no' and use LinkedIn without such. I did that with my account.
I went to that web site, read the literature, and listened to the recording. In my opinion, Marc Perkel hasn't shown that anything that PayPal did was unreasonable or wrong, but simply that he didn't like it. I happened to write him a reply to his blog too:
Any legitimate issues raised by others aside ... Marc, I listened to your recording in its entirety plus your other written info and I can't find anything wrong with Paypal's policy as revealed on your website. The only outstanding issue that you are raising is that they are holding your money for 180 days, to fully cover any possible charge-backs by your customers. After that time, you will get it back. Its not like they are keeping it forever. PayPal is doing what any decent merchant would do, which is protecting the customers. And yes, they are a merchant, like yourself, and not a bank or a credit card. I empathize with you for the wait you will have to endure, but I don't see that you have proven any wrong-doing on their part.
Despite advocating free speech otherwise, it seems that the guy didn't like what I said and deleted my reply from the forum. That's his right, but so much for logical arguments.
Here's a solicited reply that I did send to the author:
Hello Eliot Van Buskirk,
This email is in regards to your CNET Reviews article titled "Five reasons not to buy an iPod" which is at [snip-for-lameness-filter].
My main concern that I wanted to bring up was your 5th point, entitled "5. You want a choice in online music stores".
Specifically, I don't consider the choice of online retailers to be as important as the choice of music file formats. You mention several stores as examples, such as BuyMusic, Musicmatch, and Napster, but they all offer Microsoft's proprietary WMA file format and nothing else. So if you want to buy your music in a format which isn't WMA, you have no other choice with those retailers.
At the end of the day, once the music is bought, all that you care about is what you can do with it, as the store is now out of the picture. WMA still restricts the music buyers in a lot more ways than AAC does.
So what you claim to be a greater amount of choice alternate to Apple's offering isn't really a choice at all. Its all WMA outside Apple regarding 'legal' music downloads. And any other choices are in the non-DRM realm, which the RIAA doesn't like.
So the real thing that your readers need to choose between is whether they want AAC or WMA (or a free and RIAA-illegal MP3 and others). In this respect, all of the WMA-using stores are lumped together in one pseudo-entity. So music buyers' choice then really comes down to what file format offers the music they want.
To my knowledge, Apple/AAC generally has a much wider selection, as well as better mind share with the people that make the music, who are clamoring to be listed on the iTunes music store, and especially a lot of independant artists.
-- Darren Duncan
SQL Generator? And it handles subselects, inline views, grouping, multiple outer joins, and functions?
Yes, a SQL Generator can handle all of those things, and do so elegantly, and be quick running and easy to use.
I am making such a thing myself. Initially in Perl, followed by a C version. Go to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Rosetta to see it (you may want to wait for r0.18). My time frame is to be mostly done within a few months.
Or - is that too difficult to generate, forcing you to make up for this thru additional application code and reduced application functionality?
All of the other generators I know of have this problem, hence my making of a better one that does not.
-- Darren Duncan