The DoJ disagrees with you. In fact, they just wrapped up the case where Apple was the ringleader of a cartel with the publishers in order to raise e-book prices.
So an alleged price-fixing cartel between Apple and trade publishers shows Amazon has an e-book monopoly?
How would the LOTR fans feel if you told them that sorry, book one was not available at that location, but book two and three were in stock?
To be fair, that may not be B&N's fault. If you read author blogs on the web, you'll find a number saying 'my book series died because by the time I finished book 4 the publisher had let book 1 go out of print and wouldn't reprint it, so sales were dismal. Who's going to start reading a series where the first book is unavailable?'
Publishing and book selling seems to be a completely brain-dead industry.
maybe the monopoly bones authors but im not sure how much more they are boned than they were under the previous "advance" or "beg and then give up your left arm/testicle/first born child to be published" system
Through a caring, loving, nurturing, trade publisher, the author typically gets 85% of 25% of 70% of the e-book cover price, or about 15% royalties once everyone else has sucked out their cut. Through the EVIL AMAZON MONOPOLY, they generally get at least 35%, or 70% if the book is priced between $2.99 and $9.99.
Late last year I saw a few complaints online along the lines of 'I went to B&N before Christmas to buy books as presents, but they don't seem to sell them any more.'
Abandoning your core market in the hope of picking up a new one is rarely a good business plan.
Even on Slashdot, not enough people seem to be concerned about Amazon getting a monopoly on e-books.
Probably because Amazon don't have one. They own far less of the e-book market now than they did a couple of years ago, and B&N's share has been falling in that time.
I sell e-books through various stores, and Apple and Kobo account for about as many sales as Amazon. B&N sells pretty much none.
Do try to realize that YOU are not a representation of what everybody else wants or needs.
The people who claim everyone wants to run 3D games and video conferencing in their web browers might want to consider that comment.
I've certainly never, ever met anyone who does, though i'm sure they exist. I see no reason why this crap should be imposed on everyone just for a tiny few who think running Quake in Firefox is a really good idea.
These are compelling reasons for people to want features added to it to compete with other applications platforms.
Thirty years ago, the old-timers used to call that 'bloat'.
I have absolutely no use for 3D gaming or video conferencing in my web brower, and I don't plan to be using it to run slow, ugly 'web apps'. Is there an option to turn all that crap off?
No it doesn't. Case in point: Debian OpenSSL weak key flaw that wasn't discovered for more than 2 years.
And no-one else was affected because it was a hack made to the source by a developer on a distro few people use. I don't believe that change made it into any of the Debian-based distros.
If the same change had been made to the actual OpenSSL source, it would have been spotted and fixed very quickly.
My gut says they should be able to identify and investigate but perhaps I just can't imagine how they would abuse that ability if they present a legitimate reason.
'Cause, I mean, it's not like an IRS audit is anything to worry about when you've done nothing wrong.
You might want to ask Richard Nixon about his 'Enemies List' and how he tried to use the IRS to harass them.
No, it's about making industrial production so expensive in the West that we ship it all to China, where they just laugh at speeches about 'Climate Change'.
It should be incredibly obvious based on the relative size of the smart phone market versus the console market. If there were a bunch of people ditching their consoles for Angry Birds, why is it that the drop in console sales is nowhere near as big as the Angry Birds sales figures?
Because, duh, some people play both.
The real issue is that console gamers mostly bought the console because 'it just works', so now the console makers are loading up the consoles with all kinds of DRM crap to ensure 'it just doesn't work', they're screwing over their core market. The tablet or phone is more likely to 'just work' in the future.
Wow. Let me guess, you are under the age of, say 40? This is the entire arguement for the Space Shuttle that derailed proper space development for over 20 years. FORGET about the whole re-usability thing - it just costs too much.
Cheap(er), reliable, modular, expendable life vehicles... Like what SpaceX is doing now.
Uh, you do realise that SpaceX's plan to dramatically slash launch prices is... drum roll... reusing their rocket stages, right? I believe they're going to test a relight of the first stage engines for landing on one of the next Falcon 9 launches, though it will just hover before being dumped in the sea.
Would you really expect capacity to run out linearly?
I believe Intel's capacity reporting in the SMART data for the drive is roughly linear. If I remember correctly, there's a separate indicator for the percentage of spare blocks in use after existing blocks begin to fail.
I can't vouch for the modern SSDs, but I've had an X25-M in my netbook for years, it's used every day, and it's now reporting that it's down to 99% of its write capacity. At that rate the netbook will be in a museum long before the SSD dies.
Duh, you actually think this is something to do with porn.
This is being used to get the censorship infrastructure in place, so it can then be expanded to cover any kind of 'bad data' in the future.
Oh, sorry, the Slippery Slope Mafia will be along in a minute to tell me that's a logical fallacy and, yes, it really is all just about stopping kids seeing naked people.
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How could you be nervous about AMD? They're in every single next generation console system.
And what do you think profit margins are for console components?
Tesla already has prototypes for swapping batteries out in less than 2 minutes.
How long does it take when you get to the battery station in Nowheresville and they've run out of batteries?
You realise that Amazon owns Createspace, which is one of the largest PoD suppliers in the world right now?
The DoJ disagrees with you. In fact, they just wrapped up the case where Apple was the ringleader of a cartel with the publishers in order to raise e-book prices.
So an alleged price-fixing cartel between Apple and trade publishers shows Amazon has an e-book monopoly?
Does not compute, Will Robinson.
How would the LOTR fans feel if you told them that sorry, book one was not available at that location, but book two and three were in stock?
To be fair, that may not be B&N's fault. If you read author blogs on the web, you'll find a number saying 'my book series died because by the time I finished book 4 the publisher had let book 1 go out of print and wouldn't reprint it, so sales were dismal. Who's going to start reading a series where the first book is unavailable?'
Publishing and book selling seems to be a completely brain-dead industry.
maybe the monopoly bones authors but im not sure how much more they are boned than they were under the previous "advance" or "beg and then give up your left arm/testicle/first born child to be published" system
Through a caring, loving, nurturing, trade publisher, the author typically gets 85% of 25% of 70% of the e-book cover price, or about 15% royalties once everyone else has sucked out their cut. Through the EVIL AMAZON MONOPOLY, they generally get at least 35%, or 70% if the book is priced between $2.99 and $9.99.
Late last year I saw a few complaints online along the lines of 'I went to B&N before Christmas to buy books as presents, but they don't seem to sell them any more.'
Abandoning your core market in the hope of picking up a new one is rarely a good business plan.
Even on Slashdot, not enough people seem to be concerned about Amazon getting a monopoly on e-books.
Probably because Amazon don't have one. They own far less of the e-book market now than they did a couple of years ago, and B&N's share has been falling in that time.
I sell e-books through various stores, and Apple and Kobo account for about as many sales as Amazon. B&N sells pretty much none.
Do try to realize that YOU are not a representation of what everybody else wants or needs.
The people who claim everyone wants to run 3D games and video conferencing in their web browers might want to consider that comment.
I've certainly never, ever met anyone who does, though i'm sure they exist. I see no reason why this crap should be imposed on everyone just for a tiny few who think running Quake in Firefox is a really good idea.
These are compelling reasons for people to want features added to it to compete with other applications platforms.
Thirty years ago, the old-timers used to call that 'bloat'.
I have absolutely no use for 3D gaming or video conferencing in my web brower, and I don't plan to be using it to run slow, ugly 'web apps'. Is there an option to turn all that crap off?
But fixing bugs is boring.
The funny part is that, after they went to all that trouble, 'web apps' are now being replaced by plain old 'apps'.
That would be the if they present a legitimate reason part of the sentence that you quoted yet failed to read.
No, I read it.
Why do you think an audit is any less troublesome if they present a legitimate reason and you've still done nothing wrong?
No it doesn't. Case in point: Debian OpenSSL weak key flaw that wasn't discovered for more than 2 years.
And no-one else was affected because it was a hack made to the source by a developer on a distro few people use. I don't believe that change made it into any of the Debian-based distros.
If the same change had been made to the actual OpenSSL source, it would have been spotted and fixed very quickly.
My gut says they should be able to identify and investigate but perhaps I just can't imagine how they would abuse that ability if they present a legitimate reason.
'Cause, I mean, it's not like an IRS audit is anything to worry about when you've done nothing wrong.
You might want to ask Richard Nixon about his 'Enemies List' and how he tried to use the IRS to harass them.
Why would the freest country in the world (except, perhaps, Iceland) be against it?
Damn.. and I just ran out of mod points.
No, it's about making industrial production so expensive in the West that we ship it all to China, where they just laugh at speeches about 'Climate Change'.
But the future is web apps replacing local apps so they can run anywhere.
Except on tablets and phones, where the future is local apps replacing web apps.
Or something.
HTML5 looks like a total clusterfsck from here.
What I find utterly baffling is that research in this field appears to be dead in the USA, Europe and Japan.
Why would any company in their right mind research new reactor designs in countries where the government won't let them be built?
It should be incredibly obvious based on the relative size of the smart phone market versus the console market. If there were a bunch of people ditching their consoles for Angry Birds, why is it that the drop in console sales is nowhere near as big as the Angry Birds sales figures?
Because, duh, some people play both.
The real issue is that console gamers mostly bought the console because 'it just works', so now the console makers are loading up the consoles with all kinds of DRM crap to ensure 'it just doesn't work', they're screwing over their core market. The tablet or phone is more likely to 'just work' in the future.
Wow. Let me guess, you are under the age of, say 40? This is the entire arguement for the Space Shuttle that derailed proper space development for over 20 years. FORGET about the whole re-usability thing - it just costs too much.
Cheap(er), reliable, modular, expendable life vehicles... Like what SpaceX is doing now.
Uh, you do realise that SpaceX's plan to dramatically slash launch prices is... drum roll... reusing their rocket stages, right? I believe they're going to test a relight of the first stage engines for landing on one of the next Falcon 9 launches, though it will just hover before being dumped in the sea.
Also 'owning' a car becomes less interesting for many.
Instead of a payment of 200-600 a month for a car you can a nice ride for 20-30 bucks a month and it shows up right when you need it.
Ha-ha-ha. Good one.
Oh, you really believe that?
You believe the taxi industry that currently charges $20-30 a ride is going to suddenly start offering you unlimited transport for $20-30 a month?
Ha-ha-ha.
Seriously, 'automated cars' are just taxis you can own. That's it. If taxis were going to change the world, they already would have.
Would you really expect capacity to run out linearly?
I believe Intel's capacity reporting in the SMART data for the drive is roughly linear. If I remember correctly, there's a separate indicator for the percentage of spare blocks in use after existing blocks begin to fail.
I can't vouch for the modern SSDs, but I've had an X25-M in my netbook for years, it's used every day, and it's now reporting that it's down to 99% of its write capacity. At that rate the netbook will be in a museum long before the SSD dies.
Duh, you actually think this is something to do with porn.
This is being used to get the censorship infrastructure in place, so it can then be expanded to cover any kind of 'bad data' in the future.
Oh, sorry, the Slippery Slope Mafia will be along in a minute to tell me that's a logical fallacy and, yes, it really is all just about stopping kids seeing naked people.