Yes, I live in NZ and I don't recall hearing anything about this law. I think you are thinking about the law that this article refers to, which hasn't yet passed - it's still in the select committee stage.
Please explain how Google's cache financially hurts the copyright holder.
By providing the information the web surfer is looking for without visiting the website, it prevents the website owner from earning money from advertising or product sales.
At a maximum rate of 20 cents a text message, Ray would have tallied a bill of more than $10,060 for his protest.
Actually the story is inaccurate - the text caps only came into action a few days ago. The guy actually spent the last month of the "all you can text" promotion to send his 80,000 texts and therefore was only out of pocket by NZ$10.
Telecom put the cap on text messages because in New Zealand they have to pay 8 cents interconnection fee for each text that terminates in rival network Vodafone.
For 100,000 messages that accounts to NZ$8000 per month. The Telecom deal was $10 per month so they would lose $7990 per month for a customer that texted that much to Vodafone!!
Telecom didn't think this out before they offered the deal, have lost shitloads of money, and are now backtracking furiously and blaming "spammers".
The problem is that I want to live forever, but I don't particularly want to have to share the world with everyone else being immortal as well. If world population were reduced by 75%, culling out the bottom 75% of the IQ curve, the world would be very nearly perfect.
I assume you are talking about perceptual psychologist's J.J. Gibson's concept of affordance as the interaction between an object's capabilities and an organism's ability to take advantage of them?
Yeah, but that doesn't explain why its difficult to use for sellers too. Logic should dictate that they would have a nice clean easy interface to encourage you to list things and a messy, eccentric interface to give buyers an authentic rummagey feel.
With the exorbitant fees that ebay charge these days, you would find a way to offer buyer protection.
What really cheeses me off about businesses that benefit from a network effect (like ebay) is that once they have their customers "locked in" there is no incentive for them to improve their business because it is very hard for competitors to challenge them.
On a sidenote, check out New Zealand's version of ebay. The interface is so much cleaner and easier to use. I'm surprised how e-bay can have such a crap, ugly interface and continue to operate as a successful company.
You call that the old days?? I remember the day when we had to trudge through 5 miles of snow with no shoes and rags for clothes just to buy a 360k 5 1/4" floppy disk to burn for heat.
Yes, I agree with you about the limitations of space , etc with the current services. But I don't see all your average "dumb" users queueing up to change their email address.
The biggest impediment for google trying to get customers to change email is the lock-in effect of their current email addresses. How many hotmail/yahoo users will want to let all their friends and family know that they have a new email address when just sending and receiving mail can be daunting to them?
The other problem google faces is how to get the message out. Lots of older people I know don't know what a megabyte or a gigabyte is and their faces glaze over when you try to explain.
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Yes, I live in NZ and I don't recall hearing anything about this law. I think you are thinking about the law that this article refers to, which hasn't yet passed - it's still in the select committee stage.
Not so sure about that... We have a lot of coastal property. Christchurch would be pretty much screwed with any substantial sea level rise.
By providing the information the web surfer is looking for without visiting the website, it prevents the website owner from earning money from advertising or product sales.
Someone needs to invent a 12 step program.
Classic, a comment saying the moderators are stupid got moderated up :).
I hope they used the big scissors. It would only be appropriate.
We finally need Telephone Sanitizers!!
Actually the story is inaccurate - the text caps only came into action a few days ago. The guy actually spent the last month of the "all you can text" promotion to send his 80,000 texts and therefore was only out of pocket by NZ$10.
He was on the local radio last week, and he said he sent the bulk of the messages to one of his friend's inactive sim cards.
For 100,000 messages that accounts to NZ$8000 per month. The Telecom deal was $10 per month so they would lose $7990 per month for a customer that texted that much to Vodafone!!
Telecom didn't think this out before they offered the deal, have lost shitloads of money, and are now backtracking furiously and blaming "spammers".
Ever heard of The Darwin Awards? :)
In case anybody wanted to know the actual location of White Island, here it is
Wake me up when we get one petabyte storage for free.
Does this mean it will be called tmail now?
That should just about cover my spam...
Nobody really expects a terrabyte of storage do they?
Anyone got a spare $100,000 for the deposit?
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I assume you are talking about perceptual psychologist's J.J. Gibson's concept of affordance as the interaction between an object's capabilities and an organism's ability to take advantage of them?
Yeah, but that doesn't explain why its difficult to use for sellers too. Logic should dictate that they would have a nice clean easy interface to encourage you to list things and a messy, eccentric interface to give buyers an authentic rummagey feel.
What really cheeses me off about businesses that benefit from a network effect (like ebay) is that once they have their customers "locked in" there is no incentive for them to improve their business because it is very hard for competitors to challenge them.
On a sidenote, check out New Zealand's version of ebay. The interface is so much cleaner and easier to use. I'm surprised how e-bay can have such a crap, ugly interface and continue to operate as a successful company.
You call that the old days?? I remember the day when we had to trudge through 5 miles of snow with no shoes and rags for clothes just to buy a 360k 5 1/4" floppy disk to burn for heat.
I'll ask my shrink :)
Gotta be a song in there somewhere (alright, well a terrible song)
The biggest impediment for google trying to get customers to change email is the lock-in effect of their current email addresses. How many hotmail/yahoo users will want to let all their friends and family know that they have a new email address when just sending and receiving mail can be daunting to them?
The other problem google faces is how to get the message out. Lots of older people I know don't know what a megabyte or a gigabyte is and their faces glaze over when you try to explain.