J.K. Rowling has STILL refuses to allow the Harry Potter books to be released as e-books (until her own little Potterweb, or whatever the heck she's calling it, is ready) but that sure hasn't prevented her from being one of the most-downloaded authors online. She just doesn't get a penny from it, because she has chosen to go that way.
As compared to Louis C.K. who has taken in half a million dollars in four days by having a DRM-free download of his Beacon Theater performance available for $5. https://buy.louisck.net/
Or, of course, Cory Doctorow, who manages to do quite well on book sales even with having his books available as free CC-licensed downloads. http://craphound.com/
yes. All they have to do is claim the money to pay for it came from illegal sources, or that it's being used for illegal activity. They don't even have to bring charges.
Google "civil asset forfeiture" and come up with hundreds of things like this:
But there's "want to make a lot of money" and then there's "stupid".
J/K/ Rowling refused (and so far as I know STILL refuses) to allow Harry Potter to go ebook, because she's afraid it will be pirated; hence it's one of the most pirated book series available on the torrent sites. It's the only way you can GET them.
Yup... still only available electronically for free. Can't pay for it if you want to.
So all one has to do is be one of the authors of the most linked-to blog in the world ( http://bit.ly/uWa81A ), with something under 2 million readers, publish 6 novels through mainstream publishing channels and have them sell well (partly because of #1; that's a heck of a marketing platform) and THEN successfully self publish a novel, and you say "Get Creative"?
Yes, I love Cory. I love his writing. He has a LOT of excellent points when he talks about publishing. But he's not exactly an example for how the average author can make it in self publishing.
But as other have pointed out, the article says it's the carriers who have installed it on the Android phones, along with the "enhanced" shells and crap that insist on.
But Apple doesn't allow the carriers to do that, so guess who installed Carrier IQ on your phone, regardless as to whether it's enabled by default or not. That is to say, it's not enabled in THIS version of iOS. But of course Apple can enable it in the next update if they choose. After all, they didn't tell you it was on your phone in the first place. Because Apple's ALWAYS been in the habit of installing apps that don't do anything, just to have them there, for... um... something
I received the box in ( I think ) two days. I sent it in the same day. Since then: Step 1 Request - November 15, 2011: Product received Step 2 Service - November 16, 2011: Issue identified Step 3 Return - November 16, 2011: Product replacement pending
In California, the tax on tobacco was promoted by ad agencies because the money, hundreds of millions of dollars, GOES to ad agencies, for stupid billboard and TV ads that are worthless.
I seem to recall from last time I checked, California alone has over 1700 localities each with their own tax rate. They're not all different, of course, but they have to be checked and constantly updated.
Now multipli that by 50 states, minus the states that have no sales tax, and set upyourlittle onlinr trinket company to charge everyont the correct sales tax, whichis really the mInor part of the work, as the major part will be filing 50 state sales tax forms, getting audited and defending them, which will involve paying bookkeepers and laywers... I can see this really hurting smaller businesses.
...and you've never had trouble figuring out the search terms that will give you useful information on a subject? I'm pretty good at searching, but there are times I stumble because I don't know the proper terminology.
"Let me google that for you" http://lmgtfy.com/ would seem to make a lot more sense, since you would actually be helping someone learn a search term that works, vs the thousands that don't.
But of course, if you're just trying to be a dick, your link is much better.
The fact that ITWorld submitted it somehow excuses Apple's asshole behavior? Nobody can use "An Apple A Day" anymore?
Just because they stole their trademark from the Beatles and got away with it, (with the promise that they would not use it for music), it's theirs now? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
My Gawd, fanbois will stop at nothing to defend any slight against their precious church.
Reminds me a lot more of Blue Thunder, 1983, Roy Scheider.
"This ship is equipped with a forward-mounted, twenty-millimeter electric cannon. Its six barrels are capable of firing four thousand rounds of ammunition per minute. And that, gentlemen, is one hell of a shit-storm in anybody's language!"
[Braddock and Murphy have watched Blue Thunder perform a selective firepower demonstration] Icelan: Well, look at that, all the red dummies are blown to hell. Frank Murphy: And a few white ones! Fletcher: One civilian dead for every ten terrorists. That's an acceptable ratio. Frank Murphy: [Leaning closer to Braddock] Unless you're one of the civilians!
I think you might be a touch confused about the meaning of the word "research".
If the crap was working, we wouldn't need to spend money on figuring out how to make it work.
I agree we need to re-prioritize our spending, but I would much rather see us cutting things like the billions we give to the oil companies, or maybe if we're going to have medicare pay for prescriptions, we do like every other industrialized country in the world and negotiate with the pharma companies, instead of just giving them whatever they want to charge like we do.
I can't believe ANY developer would submit apps to the AppStore under those conditions. I'm not talking about the "secret" ones, I'm talking about:
"Amazon gets to set the price of your app to whatever they want, without any input from you, or even the chance to reject their price"
That would be a complete deal-killer for almost every developer I know. How would anyone come up with a business plan if they don't know how much their product is going to be sold for?
Is the MarketPlace that awful, that developers would accept these terms from Amazon?
Except most online agreements are not read even if agreed to. I just went to iTunes to grab a free song, and saw there was a new User Agreement. After clicking to get the "Printable version", copying and pasting into LibreOffice, it was 27 pages of 8 point type.
I'm sure there was something in there agreeing to transfer ownership of my soul.
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Plus, of course, the amusing bit that ALL Harry Potter ebooks are pirated, because Rowling chooses to have it that way.
J.K. Rowling has STILL refuses to allow the Harry Potter books to be released as e-books (until her own little Potterweb, or whatever the heck she's calling it, is ready) but that sure hasn't prevented her from being one of the most-downloaded authors online. She just doesn't get a penny from it, because she has chosen to go that way.
As compared to Louis C.K. who has taken in half a million dollars in four days by having a DRM-free download of his Beacon Theater performance available for $5.
https://buy.louisck.net/
Or, of course, Cory Doctorow, who manages to do quite well on book sales even with having his books available as free CC-licensed downloads.
http://craphound.com/
Kindles read the epub format? Really? I haven't been able to find a reference to that on Amazon or anywhere else.
yes. All they have to do is claim the money to pay for it came from illegal sources, or that it's being used for illegal activity. They don't even have to bring charges.
Google "civil asset forfeiture" and come up with hundreds of things like this:
http://fedstookmycar.wordpress.com/category/abuse-of-civil-seizure-law/
I've actually gotten several notifications from Amazon that there was an updated version for a novel that had "fixes".
True.
But there's "want to make a lot of money" and then there's "stupid".
J/K/ Rowling refused (and so far as I know STILL refuses) to allow Harry Potter to go ebook, because she's afraid it will be pirated; hence it's one of the most pirated book series available on the torrent sites. It's the only way you can GET them.
Yup... still only available electronically for free. Can't pay for it if you want to.
http://news.yahoo.com/harry-potter-e-book-sales-postponed-until-2012-202829043.html
So all one has to do is be one of the authors of the most linked-to blog in the world ( http://bit.ly/uWa81A ), with something under 2 million readers, publish 6 novels through mainstream publishing channels and have them sell well (partly because of #1; that's a heck of a marketing platform) and THEN successfully self publish a novel, and you say "Get Creative"?
Yes, I love Cory. I love his writing. He has a LOT of excellent points when he talks about publishing. But he's not exactly an example for how the average author can make it in self publishing.
Bingo. You just described a violent crime. Not VERY violent, but violent nonetheless.
I think djmurdoch was replying on the wrong thread. /. about copyright... it was... um... here somewhere... DAMN!
I was just reading a thread here on
But as other have pointed out, the article says it's the carriers who have installed it on the Android phones, along with the "enhanced" shells and crap that insist on.
But Apple doesn't allow the carriers to do that, so guess who installed Carrier IQ on your phone, regardless as to whether it's enabled by default or not.
That is to say, it's not enabled in THIS version of iOS. But of course Apple can enable it in the next update if they choose. After all, they didn't tell you it was on your phone in the first place.
Because Apple's ALWAYS been in the habit of installing apps that don't do anything, just to have them there, for... um... something
And the perps haven't deprived the victims of their property? Not sure what you mean here.
With copyright infringement, the original owners still have their stuff. With this, the victim doesn't.
I received the box in ( I think ) two days. I sent it in the same day. Since then:
Step 1 Request - November 15, 2011: Product received
Step 2 Service - November 16, 2011: Issue identified
Step 3 Return - November 16, 2011: Product replacement pending
sigh...
In California, the tax on tobacco was promoted by ad agencies because the money, hundreds of millions of dollars, GOES to ad agencies, for stupid billboard and TV ads that are worthless.
That was actually my first thought. It seems like a really obvious mistake for someone drunk and a bit confused who wanted support for his phone.
I seem to recall from last time I checked, California alone has over 1700 localities each with their own tax rate. They're not all different, of course, but they have to be checked and constantly updated.
Now multipli that by 50 states, minus the states that have no sales tax, and set upyourlittle onlinr trinket company to charge everyont the correct sales tax, whichis really the mInor part of the work, as the major part will be filing 50 state sales tax forms, getting audited and defending them, which will involve paying bookkeepers and laywers ... I can see this really hurting smaller businesses.
...and you've never had trouble figuring out the search terms that will give you useful information on a subject?
I'm pretty good at searching, but there are times I stumble because I don't know the proper terminology.
"Let me google that for you" http://lmgtfy.com/ would seem to make a lot more sense, since you would actually be helping someone learn a search term that works, vs the thousands that don't.
But of course, if you're just trying to be a dick, your link is much better.
The fact that ITWorld submitted it somehow excuses Apple's asshole behavior?
Nobody can use "An Apple A Day" anymore?
Just because they stole their trademark from the Beatles and got away with it, (with the promise that they would not use it for music), it's theirs now?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
My Gawd, fanbois will stop at nothing to defend any slight against their precious church.
Reminds me a lot more of Blue Thunder, 1983, Roy Scheider.
"This ship is equipped with a forward-mounted, twenty-millimeter electric cannon. Its six barrels are capable of firing four thousand rounds of ammunition per minute. And that, gentlemen, is one hell of a shit-storm in anybody's language!"
[Braddock and Murphy have watched Blue Thunder perform a selective firepower demonstration]
Icelan: Well, look at that, all the red dummies are blown to hell.
Frank Murphy: And a few white ones!
Fletcher: One civilian dead for every ten terrorists. That's an acceptable ratio.
Frank Murphy: [Leaning closer to Braddock] Unless you're one of the civilians!
I think you might be a touch confused about the meaning of the word "research".
If the crap was working, we wouldn't need to spend money on figuring out how to make it work.
I agree we need to re-prioritize our spending, but I would much rather see us cutting things like the billions we give to the oil companies, or maybe if we're going to have medicare pay for prescriptions, we do like every other industrialized country in the world and negotiate with the pharma companies, instead of just giving them whatever they want to charge like we do.
Unenforced? You haven't heard about Australia?
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2011/08/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-delayed-in-australia/
You do realize that he isn't complaining about Goog;e. but Amazon?
I can't believe ANY developer would submit apps to the AppStore under those conditions. I'm not talking about the "secret" ones, I'm talking about:
"Amazon gets to set the price of your app to whatever they want, without any input from you, or even the chance to reject their price"
That would be a complete deal-killer for almost every developer I know. How would anyone come up with a business plan if they don't know how much their product is going to be sold for?
Is the MarketPlace that awful, that developers would accept these terms from Amazon?
Except most online agreements are not read even if agreed to. I just went to iTunes to grab a free song, and saw there was a new User Agreement. After clicking to get the "Printable version", copying and pasting into LibreOffice, it was 27 pages of 8 point type.
I'm sure there was something in there agreeing to transfer ownership of my soul.
and I'm pretty sure that's 28% OF SMARTPHONES, not "all consomers".
The hype machine is running full throttle.
Just like every 3rd story about how the freaking ghost town of G+ is killing Facebook and Twitter.