One non-obvious reason for a tiered approach is psychology.
If there is no cost to hitting the limit, people will mindlessly consume. As soon as there is a dollar value associated with blowing it, it'll cause people to do self-throttling.
The ancillary revenue probably isn't enough to help improve infrastructure; it's there to shape behavior.
I'm betting an absolutely huge majority of traffic on Twitter is completely pointless and inane... "I'm going to the bathroom", "the poop is coming out", "meeting Bill and Larry for drinks".
This uninformed stereotype of twitter activity is outdated.
The vast majority of tweets today are links and retweets. Live example, I just looked at the 10 most recent tweets in my stream. The first 9 are links and the 10th is a comment about WeChat.
"We talked about some simple, fun ways — anyone who [acts inappropriately] will have to wear an embarassing tie, etc. — instead of swear jar, having a sexual innuendo jar and even fairly harsh punishments (like people losing their bonuses for the month or their extra vaccation days)"
Any acts which would result in these embarrassments are terminal offenses. Then on top of these, these acts could be considered terminal harassment themselves.
You have serious problems if your polices are already unenforceable.
How else would you expect a company to respond? How many times have people used the phrase "Vote With Your Dollars!"? This is exactly an example of that.
Go Daddy supported something. Its customers voted (or threatened to vote) with their dollars. Go Daddy re-evaluated what that meant and changed its stance.
Isn't that what you would want to see a corporate entity do?
I heard the automotive industry has the same kind of "bait-and-switch." Did you know if you purchase a car from some dealerships, you have to turn right back around and put gas in it! It is almost like it is a consumable. The crooks!!
Look up "bait and switch." If you buy a product and get the promised product, you have not experienced the switch part. Yes, you might have be baited by the low price. However, that is not illegal.
If you do not have a portable music player and do not own any DRM music, then the Zune is a viable option.
The Zune is unattractive for me because I have purchased music (mostly audiobooks) through iTunes. If you bought music from Urge, Napster, or another "PlayForSure" service, you can not use the music on your Zune. In other words, if you purchased music from anywhere but the Zune store (which is a new DRM), you can't use it. (You can still rip CDs and put them on the Zune.)
So again. If you don't have any purchased music and you don't already have a portable music player (iPod or not), the Zune could be an option. Just remember. Your music selections are only from the Zune store.
The trouble with innovation is that you typically learn things before anyone else does, through your mistakes.
When I say innovation, I am not suggesting the iPod as a product is innovative. Or the MacBook as a laptop is innovative. I mean more towards specifc features and functions.
The screen used on the Nano, for example. Nobody tried putting it on a MP3 player before. Someone at Apple thought it would hold up. Oops. Guess not.
One approach would be to take the Dell route. Only incorporate technologies already proven by someone else. Well, that lacks the innovative spirit that is driving Apple's products. (Again their specific products may not be innovative, it is the feature they incorporate.)
If you have an outgoing number, I'm sure you can solve this issue by being issued an incoming number. IMO, it seems to be a loss leader of sorts, to get folks to upgrade to paid service.
Subscribing to SkypeIN does not change your outgoing ID. It still shows 0123456789.
"a recent survey of pension policyholders in the United Kingdom found that 75 percent would leave their current provider if they experienced bad customer service."
People say they will take action all the time. How many actually do? Well they do take action. They tell all their friends how shitty "the company" treated them. They go into detail about how "the company" doesn't care. And then next money they send "the company" a check for the bill.
Replace "the company" with practically any business name.
"Are the staffing issues associated with OSS enough to outweigh the benefits?"
Let me play devil's advocate, since I do support OSS.
Please keep in mind that many corporations offer their products at a substantial discount to Educational Institution. For example. I work for a hardware (not as in PCs) that offers a minimum discount of 25% and up to 50% depending on proudct line to any educational institution. Our support model is the same. An application engineer will come out and help students/factility or they can call our call-center.
So, from an education point of view, what are the these benefits that OSS offers which need to be out weighed?
IRC Answer: Blue shirts are teh suck. Any noob 1D10T knowz that!
Ask Slashdot Answer: Huh? Wear a shirt? Why would you want to do that? We need more information. Where do you work? What is the dress code where you work at? Are you trying to impress anyone in your office? What size shirt do you wear? Do you know how to tie a tie? God. The stupid fucking quesitons have to stop! If you're going to ask us a question, give us all of the information. Maybe we can think of a solution you didn't.
For example, just wear a v-neck t-shirt. I wear them all the time and have no problems. I'm too tunnel-visioned to imagine a situation where it might not work for you.
Not to defend EA, but I understand why. The current-gen consoles have an enormous amount of software on the shelf; either in New, Used, or "Best Sellers."
Slashdot Mirror
One non-obvious reason for a tiered approach is psychology.
If there is no cost to hitting the limit, people will mindlessly consume. As soon as there is a dollar value associated with blowing it, it'll cause people to do self-throttling.
The ancillary revenue probably isn't enough to help improve infrastructure; it's there to shape behavior.
I'm betting an absolutely huge majority of traffic on Twitter is completely pointless and inane ... "I'm going to the bathroom", "the poop is coming out", "meeting Bill and Larry for drinks".
This uninformed stereotype of twitter activity is outdated.
The vast majority of tweets today are links and retweets. Live example, I just looked at the 10 most recent tweets in my stream. The first 9 are links and the 10th is a comment about WeChat.
There was a contract. When the contract is violated, [American] businesses sue.
"We talked about some simple, fun ways — anyone who [acts inappropriately] will have to wear an embarassing tie, etc. — instead of swear jar, having a sexual innuendo jar and even fairly harsh punishments (like people losing their bonuses for the month or their extra vaccation days)"
Any acts which would result in these embarrassments are terminal offenses. Then on top of these, these acts could be considered terminal harassment themselves.
You have serious problems if your polices are already unenforceable.
How else would you expect a company to respond? How many times have people used the phrase "Vote With Your Dollars!"? This is exactly an example of that.
Go Daddy supported something. Its customers voted (or threatened to vote) with their dollars. Go Daddy re-evaluated what that meant and changed its stance.
Isn't that what you would want to see a corporate entity do?
I heard the automotive industry has the same kind of "bait-and-switch." Did you know if you purchase a car from some dealerships, you have to turn right back around and put gas in it! It is almost like it is a consumable. The crooks!!
Look up "bait and switch." If you buy a product and get the promised product, you have not experienced the switch part. Yes, you might have be baited by the low price. However, that is not illegal.
My fiance frowns when I take my computer into the bathroom with me.
If you do not have a portable music player and do not own any DRM music, then the Zune is a viable option.
The Zune is unattractive for me because I have purchased music (mostly audiobooks) through iTunes. If you bought music from Urge, Napster, or another "PlayForSure" service, you can not use the music on your Zune. In other words, if you purchased music from anywhere but the Zune store (which is a new DRM), you can't use it. (You can still rip CDs and put them on the Zune.)
So again. If you don't have any purchased music and you don't already have a portable music player (iPod or not), the Zune could be an option. Just remember. Your music selections are only from the Zune store.
Not all of them. In fact, do any other than the one model?
Thanks for explaining, so I didn't have to.
The trouble with innovation is that you typically learn things before anyone else does, through your mistakes.
When I say innovation, I am not suggesting the iPod as a product is innovative. Or the MacBook as a laptop is innovative. I mean more towards specifc features and functions.
The screen used on the Nano, for example. Nobody tried putting it on a MP3 player before. Someone at Apple thought it would hold up. Oops. Guess not.
One approach would be to take the Dell route. Only incorporate technologies already proven by someone else. Well, that lacks the innovative spirit that is driving Apple's products. (Again their specific products may not be innovative, it is the feature they incorporate.)
If you have an outgoing number, I'm sure you can solve this issue by being issued an incoming number. IMO, it seems to be a loss leader of sorts, to get folks to upgrade to paid service.
Subscribing to SkypeIN does not change your outgoing ID. It still shows 0123456789.
I swear they were driving Hummers (H1). They could have at least modified them so they looked different.
Listen to the podcasts. It was intentional.
Glass is also a feature that we all have come to respect and love,
You sure about that? I do not respect or love Glass.
No because if you RTFA, he's mentioned several times.
"New series" means a new season. This isn't a new television series that is being made. Only the intro.
Worst Comment Ever.
(j/k)
I wasn't being funny.
"a recent survey of pension policyholders in the United Kingdom found that 75 percent would leave their current provider if they experienced bad customer service."
People say they will take action all the time. How many actually do? Well they do take action. They tell all their friends how shitty "the company" treated them. They go into detail about how "the company" doesn't care. And then next money they send "the company" a check for the bill.
Replace "the company" with practically any business name.
... but say "limp dick fine" on the radio or TV and you owe the FCC $500k.
"Are the staffing issues associated with OSS enough to outweigh the benefits?"
Let me play devil's advocate, since I do support OSS.
Please keep in mind that many corporations offer their products at a substantial discount to Educational Institution. For example. I work for a hardware (not as in PCs) that offers a minimum discount of 25% and up to 50% depending on proudct line to any educational institution. Our support model is the same. An application engineer will come out and help students/factility or they can call our call-center.
So, from an education point of view, what are the these benefits that OSS offers which need to be out weighed?
IRC Answer:
Blue shirts are teh suck. Any noob 1D10T knowz that!
Ask Slashdot Answer:
Huh? Wear a shirt? Why would you want to do that? We need more information. Where do you work? What is the dress code where you work at? Are you trying to impress anyone in your office? What size shirt do you wear? Do you know how to tie a tie? God. The stupid fucking quesitons have to stop! If you're going to ask us a question, give us all of the information. Maybe we can think of a solution you didn't.
For example, just wear a v-neck t-shirt. I wear them all the time and have no problems. I'm too tunnel-visioned to imagine a situation where it might not work for you.
Did anyone else read this and think, "I could be a Cylon?" ...
I agree. The NX-01 has a gritty, real interior. The other ST TV shows all had sterile interiors.
Not to defend EA, but I understand why. The current-gen consoles have an enormous amount of software on the shelf; either in New, Used, or "Best Sellers."
There are what, 10 Xbox360 games?