To suggest that a few evenings learning from a book will mean you're able to do the work itself is laughable, but it does mean you would have a better idea of when you're being spun bullshit by the asshole programmer.
I know nothing about cars, so if I take mine to a mechanic to fix I'm at his mercy - if he bullshits me I have no way of knowing. If I contract a programmer I'm in a position to know whether the work I'm asking for is likely to take a day or a week and whether it really needs the latest fashionable framework.
That's a very simplistic way of looking at things. I suspect that Zynga looked at each game in isolation - the same as you're suggesting - and decided whether it was profitable or not. But how many people playing the games that they are going to close also play other, profitable Zynga games? There's a good chance they will lose them as customers entirely.
That's apparently not what happened. This guy posted the joke on his own wall; someone else took a screen grab of it and posted it on the April Jones page.
Yes, that's one of the main reasons I'm dumping my Bold for an iPhone. For the last 3 years I've been paying an additional £5/month for BIS that gives me zero benefits.
A more evil plan would be to charge $5 a month but give it away to a random 80% of the users. The other 20% would feel almost obliged to pay up or get left out of their friends' social circle
The rights holders for making it so complicated to license across Europe. Since Spotify and Netflix hit the UK my torrent and Usenet use has dropped to virtually zero.
It's always been that way. The oldest tech-related pissing match I can remember is Atari ST versus Commodore Amiga in the mid 80s, but I'm sure some of the old hands can remember similar arguments going way back.
Netflix in a browser requires Silverlight which the Playbook doesn't have. One redeeming feature is that it does have full Flash support, but I can't say I've missed it on the iPad, particularly as the BBC and YouTube both have alternate delivery methods.
I bought a Playbook just before Christmas when the price dropped to £169 but have just bought an iPad to replace it. The PB hardware and OS are good, what killed it for me were the apps. There's no Kindle, Skype or Netflix, for example, and on the BB app store $1 = £1, so what apps there are felt pricey.
I have the newer version. It's great for streaming from a NAS, and BBC iPlayer is great, but the Netflix app forces a re-auth every couple of days. 'Typing' an email address and password using the remote is not fun.
Even if you had started receiving spam it wouldn't have proved MS had sold your address. Spammers also send to random names at a domain and may have just chanced on yours. Obviously the chances of that would be less if your email is fdhdf73gdfj932as@hotmail.com (apologies if that is your address and you start getting spam)
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The plant itself isn't secret but I'm not sure that publicising that it has structural problems is necessarily a good idea.
To suggest that a few evenings learning from a book will mean you're able to do the work itself is laughable, but it does mean you would have a better idea of when you're being spun bullshit by the asshole programmer.
I know nothing about cars, so if I take mine to a mechanic to fix I'm at his mercy - if he bullshits me I have no way of knowing. If I contract a programmer I'm in a position to know whether the work I'm asking for is likely to take a day or a week and whether it really needs the latest fashionable framework.
That's a very simplistic way of looking at things. I suspect that Zynga looked at each game in isolation - the same as you're suggesting - and decided whether it was profitable or not. But how many people playing the games that they are going to close also play other, profitable Zynga games? There's a good chance they will lose them as customers entirely.
Agreed. It also makes a nice change not having to wade through tons of '"funny'" comments before getting to the useful/interesting ones.
It looks like you're going to have to use another browser for your porn^H^H^H^Himages.
In a world when law enforcement isn't run by fuckwits, yes.
That's apparently not what happened. This guy posted the joke on his own wall; someone else took a screen grab of it and posted it on the April Jones page.
Yes, that's one of the main reasons I'm dumping my Bold for an iPhone. For the last 3 years I've been paying an additional £5/month for BIS that gives me zero benefits.
Burning tyres are the usual weapon of choice.
A more evil plan would be to charge $5 a month but give it away to a random 80% of the users. The other 20% would feel almost obliged to pay up or get left out of their friends' social circle
The rights holders for making it so complicated to license across Europe. Since Spotify and Netflix hit the UK my torrent and Usenet use has dropped to virtually zero.
If you organise your feeds into folders in Reader you can view all items in each folder in one list.
It's always been that way. The oldest tech-related pissing match I can remember is Atari ST versus Commodore Amiga in the mid 80s, but I'm sure some of the old hands can remember similar arguments going way back.
Netflix in a browser requires Silverlight which the Playbook doesn't have. One redeeming feature is that it does have full Flash support, but I can't say I've missed it on the iPad, particularly as the BBC and YouTube both have alternate delivery methods.
I bought a Playbook just before Christmas when the price dropped to £169 but have just bought an iPad to replace it. The PB hardware and OS are good, what killed it for me were the apps. There's no Kindle, Skype or Netflix, for example, and on the BB app store $1 = £1, so what apps there are felt pricey.
Post this one of his and see if you lose a few more.
News nope for nerds still no, stuff that matters definitely not.
How many SEO experts does it take to change a light bulb, lightbulb, light,bulb, lamp, lighting, light switch, lightswitch, switch, energy?
Really!!? I knew you had to pay for incoming SMS texts but had no idea incoming calls used up your allowance.
I can't think what attracted her to the millionaire Kim Dotcom.
I have the newer version. It's great for streaming from a NAS, and BBC iPlayer is great, but the Netflix app forces a re-auth every couple of days. 'Typing' an email address and password using the remote is not fun.
Even if you had started receiving spam it wouldn't have proved MS had sold your address. Spammers also send to random names at a domain and may have just chanced on yours. Obviously the chances of that would be less if your email is fdhdf73gdfj932as@hotmail.com (apologies if that is your address and you start getting spam)
You forgot about Ford in '76, so that's 3/8.
There have been 24 elections where the incumbent has stood for re-election; 14 won and 10 lost. I wouldn't call that 'very difficult'.
if there was a huge user base of simple users they might even make an easier "Lite" version out of it.
They do: http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop-elements.html