PSP in particular is a great example of OTHER ways to make money. For years PSP CDs were included with graphic cards, pen tablets, mice and other peripherals. This provides licensing income without having to worry abot the "shareware" aspect of it. Some graphics cards even came with a registered copy on the CD, which added substantial value back in the days when the only competition was a $400 copy of Photoshop.
BTW I did pop 35 bucks for pkware - unfortunately it was only months before Katz' death.
I switched to linux more than a decade ago. My friends with windows ask me questions and I can honestly say "I dunno... I haven't used Windows since the Clinton administration."
The funny part is some don't even seem to grasp that, and ask again the next time soemthing goes bad. At that point I usually ask them why they haven't already asked their denitst about the problem, or their car mechanic...
"What's wrong with your PC? You're a warez whore who still uses windows. Here's an ubuntu CD..."
If the skills of a pc-fixer are worthless, why even ask someone to do it? If the fixer is as worthless as an ass wiper, why aren't as many people asking others to wipe their ass for them as there are expecting free anti-software support?
'For example,' explains Big Blue, 'to help a child who plays rough with other children the interaction data can include multiple interaction operations that can be performed by the interactive device for helping the child play less rough with other children.
Just so long as they're not going to be teaching kids English....
Try to track down a copy of the Scelbi-BYTE primer. It was published in about the 3rd year of BYTE magazine and was chock full of fantastic articles. It was this book, in fact, that allowed me to FINALLY understand WTF all those "numbers meant" when it came to micros. Before that I was an all analog man, happily spending my days building stero preamps, speakers and such.
I lost track of my primer ages ago and have longed to once again peruse its pages. Took me better part of a year to track one down and when I did it cost about 4 times the original cover price of 14.95. Now it sits right here on the shelf above my monitor, one of my very few "mojos."
You still don't get it. I CAN make and sell a fucking refrigerated console for a 2011 Ford Mustang and say so right in the product description and Ford cannot do a fucking thing about it. I cannot call it a "genuine Ford" part but that's as far as their say goes.
There is hardly ANYTHING one can make and sell for a fucking videogame console without the manufacturer's blessing. That's sum total bullshit. It doesn't encourage innovation at all, in fact it flat stifles it.
So does Ford. I can't make and sell a Mustang unless Ford says I can use that name and their parts. But I can buy a fucking Mustang and do what I like with it and resell it. I can also make shit to add onto the Mustang without Ford having right to say what is what. Somehow just because a device now incorporates electronics to provide the core sum of its functionality that right is taken away? Bullshit. It's like Ford being able to sue someone because they used an F150 to flee a ban robbery, or refuse to sell and Aztek to a teen because they might have sex in the back seat.
dammit! For liek 3 weeks they just kept throwing mod points at me and half the time I couldn't even use them up. And now, here I sit without any mod points...
I may be "too young to understand" whatever it is you blathered on about, but at least I'm old enough to know not to make silly assumptions about anonymous voices in the ether.
You're making jokes, but certain printers used to do EXACTLY THAT as part of their diagnostics. I believe it was certain IBM inkjet printers, though it's been so long I don't really recall. I do know we used to get calls from baffled users saying "you're not gonna believe this" at which point we'd ask "is your printer playing fur elise?"
Research? Who said anything about research? I was talking about completing papers for class. And it doesn't matter what I think or don't think about completing a classroom assignment - my grades speak for themselves. So far I see little difference in the pages anyway. It's just sad Wales didn't think to tap that mine before Amazon jumped his claim.
Are they redirecting people from wikipedia? Are they stomping on search result pages? Nothing is being "shoved" here.
This is an incredibly useful feature. I use wikipedia all the time for research papaers, but most research papers do not allow online sources or allow only a limited number. Citations to actual books are needed, and to draw quotes from those books we need access to at least a bit of the content. Amazon provides this, meaning now I may be able to just click a citation and be directed to the proper page at amazon where I can access a few sample pages from the book - ba-bing, now I have a citation for my paper. What's amazing is not how amazon was crass enough to do this, but that jimmy wales was so shortsighted as to not offer to do this from the beginning. That's potentially a lot of revenue they'll never claim now.
I bought an ATI card because I thought it was the nvidia card. I've had two different nvidia cards and an ati card, they all did it.
If you've locked up the machine how do you know it wasn't gfx related? My experience was after getting rid of the compositing shit the machine was much more stable. It can still lock up the desktoip hard, but when it does it's almost always because I'm watching (wait for it...) FLASH videos. The internets cannot replace that shit fast enough for me.
I've had problems with ubuntu a couple years now. This has been common over a few different machines even using differnt graphic cards. The machine seemed prone to desktop lockups that require a hard reset, which I despise. I had pretty much given up trying to fix the problem when I discovered they install those fancy-schmancy desktop FX on machines even if you don't enable them. So after removing ALL TRACES of compiz, beryl and the ilk and installing the OPEN graphics driver for my ATi card I finally got a machine that was as stable as I remembered older versions like 6.10. It doesn't look quite as pretty and flashy, but at least I'm not having to hard reset my pc every day or two.
Replace the entire DHS with nothing. While we're at it, let's demolish the ICE black helicopter corps and every other federal domestic paramilitary department of ritual abuse.
Seriously? It ain't that hard to see all around you. The gas station prices their gas something something-point nine. Say it's 2.50 a gallon rounded up, but it's really 2.49.9 - so for every ten gallons you buy, you keep a penny of that 2.50. Whoopee right?
Now you're the government. You tax everyone at 7 percent.A sale of 5.33 now becomes 5.7031 - except it isn't, because registers are set to round up. So it's actually a sale of 5.71. Multiply that by how many Billions of sales in a year? In a year that's probably an extra $15.00 a year from every man woman and child. It may not make the difference between you going broke, but it does add up to those who collect the money.
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PSP in particular is a great example of OTHER ways to make money. For years PSP CDs were included with graphic cards, pen tablets, mice and other peripherals. This provides licensing income without having to worry abot the "shareware" aspect of it. Some graphics cards even came with a registered copy on the CD, which added substantial value back in the days when the only competition was a $400 copy of Photoshop.
BTW I did pop 35 bucks for pkware - unfortunately it was only months before Katz' death.
But he said .avi... which, um, ALSO is simply a container...
Meh!
Takes someone hardcore to say no to JB wiles...
I switched to linux more than a decade ago. My friends with windows ask me questions and I can honestly say "I dunno... I haven't used Windows since the Clinton administration."
The funny part is some don't even seem to grasp that, and ask again the next time soemthing goes bad. At that point I usually ask them why they haven't already asked their denitst about the problem, or their car mechanic...
"What's wrong with your PC? You're a warez whore who still uses windows. Here's an ubuntu CD..."
If the skills of a pc-fixer are worthless, why even ask someone to do it? If the fixer is as worthless as an ass wiper, why aren't as many people asking others to wipe their ass for them as there are expecting free anti-software support?
Oh, your sarcasm is so 2000's!
We use MKVs now, old man...
'For example,' explains Big Blue, 'to help a child who plays rough with other children the interaction data can include multiple interaction operations that can be performed by the interactive device for helping the child play less rough with other children.
Just so long as they're not going to be teaching kids English....
I thought _facebook_ was for dummies.
Try to track down a copy of the Scelbi-BYTE primer. It was published in about the 3rd year of BYTE magazine and was chock full of fantastic articles. It was this book, in fact, that allowed me to FINALLY understand WTF all those "numbers meant" when it came to micros. Before that I was an all analog man, happily spending my days building stero preamps, speakers and such.
I lost track of my primer ages ago and have longed to once again peruse its pages. Took me better part of a year to track one down and when I did it cost about 4 times the original cover price of 14.95. Now it sits right here on the shelf above my monitor, one of my very few "mojos."
So you're saying that someone bought a cheapass craptastic brand so they could imitate it?
Kinda like Cadillac buying Kia to trade on their clout, huh?
That's why MAKE magazine still goes on in dead tree format? And elektor?
Steve Ciarcia's site is still going now almost two decades post-BYTE, and they still publish a dead tree issue.
BYTE had no mojo left long before BYTE quit publishing, all this sounds like is another cheap exploitation of another once beloved brand name.
Doh! And there goes my entire point, shattered by a simple corporate nameswap.
WTF is that Ford thing made for (wink wink) "camping?" I know they have one too...
You still don't get it. I CAN make and sell a fucking refrigerated console for a 2011 Ford Mustang and say so right in the product description and Ford cannot do a fucking thing about it. I cannot call it a "genuine Ford" part but that's as far as their say goes.
There is hardly ANYTHING one can make and sell for a fucking videogame console without the manufacturer's blessing. That's sum total bullshit. It doesn't encourage innovation at all, in fact it flat stifles it.
So does Ford. I can't make and sell a Mustang unless Ford says I can use that name and their parts. But I can buy a fucking Mustang and do what I like with it and resell it. I can also make shit to add onto the Mustang without Ford having right to say what is what. Somehow just because a device now incorporates electronics to provide the core sum of its functionality that right is taken away? Bullshit. It's like Ford being able to sue someone because they used an F150 to flee a ban robbery, or refuse to sell and Aztek to a teen because they might have sex in the back seat.
dammit! For liek 3 weeks they just kept throwing mod points at me and half the time I couldn't even use them up. And now, here I sit without any mod points...
No one knows you're an old dog.
I may be "too young to understand" whatever it is you blathered on about, but at least I'm old enough to know not to make silly assumptions about anonymous voices in the ether.
You're making jokes, but certain printers used to do EXACTLY THAT as part of their diagnostics. I believe it was certain IBM inkjet printers, though it's been so long I don't really recall. I do know we used to get calls from baffled users saying "you're not gonna believe this" at which point we'd ask "is your printer playing fur elise?"
Research? Who said anything about research? I was talking about completing papers for class. And it doesn't matter what I think or don't think about completing a classroom assignment - my grades speak for themselves. So far I see little difference in the pages anyway. It's just sad Wales didn't think to tap that mine before Amazon jumped his claim.
Are they redirecting people from wikipedia? Are they stomping on search result pages? Nothing is being "shoved" here.
This is an incredibly useful feature. I use wikipedia all the time for research papaers, but most research papers do not allow online sources or allow only a limited number. Citations to actual books are needed, and to draw quotes from those books we need access to at least a bit of the content. Amazon provides this, meaning now I may be able to just click a citation and be directed to the proper page at amazon where I can access a few sample pages from the book - ba-bing, now I have a citation for my paper. What's amazing is not how amazon was crass enough to do this, but that jimmy wales was so shortsighted as to not offer to do this from the beginning. That's potentially a lot of revenue they'll never claim now.
I bought an ATI card because I thought it was the nvidia card. I've had two different nvidia cards and an ati card, they all did it.
If you've locked up the machine how do you know it wasn't gfx related? My experience was after getting rid of the compositing shit the machine was much more stable. It can still lock up the desktoip hard, but when it does it's almost always because I'm watching (wait for it...) FLASH videos. The internets cannot replace that shit fast enough for me.
I've had problems with ubuntu a couple years now. This has been common over a few different machines even using differnt graphic cards. The machine seemed prone to desktop lockups that require a hard reset, which I despise. I had pretty much given up trying to fix the problem when I discovered they install those fancy-schmancy desktop FX on machines even if you don't enable them. So after removing ALL TRACES of compiz, beryl and the ilk and installing the OPEN graphics driver for my ATi card I finally got a machine that was as stable as I remembered older versions like 6.10. It doesn't look quite as pretty and flashy, but at least I'm not having to hard reset my pc every day or two.
This is sure to shut up all those naysayers who accuse NASA of being a waste of resources...
WTF wants to READ about something like this?
Replace the entire DHS with nothing. While we're at it, let's demolish the ICE black helicopter corps and every other federal domestic paramilitary department of ritual abuse.
Seriously? It ain't that hard to see all around you. The gas station prices their gas something something-point nine. Say it's 2.50 a gallon rounded up, but it's really 2.49.9 - so for every ten gallons you buy, you keep a penny of that 2.50. Whoopee right?
Now you're the government. You tax everyone at 7 percent.A sale of 5.33 now becomes 5.7031 - except it isn't, because registers are set to round up. So it's actually a sale of 5.71. Multiply that by how many Billions of sales in a year? In a year that's probably an extra $15.00 a year from every man woman and child. It may not make the difference between you going broke, but it does add up to those who collect the money.