This is why PopCap & others are doing so well. They are focusing on cheaper, yet addictive casual arcade-style games that are easy to crank out. When you lower a game to $9.99, your potential market goes up by at least ten-fold. Ports to mobile platforms also become much easier.
I hate to tell you, but you don't own any song or movie on any CD/DVD/Blu-Ray in your house. The RIAA & MPAA may let you own the physical disk, but they own the content. Their license only lets you play it on their terms and they're never gonna let you forget it. Sad but true...
If you're using IntelliJ IDEA, there is a nice plugin called 'git4idea' that allows a pretty decent git integration experience. Eclipse integration is not so good yet, but is getting better...
If they want Blu-Ray to succeed, they need to lower the disk prices. Who wants to pay $25 for a BD movie when the DVD version is $15 and looks almost as good with an upscaling DVD player???
o decent BD players need to be less than $200
o BD disks need to be same prices as DVD
o all BD players need to be able to play DVDs & upscale (don't want to throw away my DVDs....)
Then it will succeed, not until. It's not some religious problem over DRM, it's simple economics.
As one of those religious zealots you obviously abhore, I am all for the.xxx domains. It provides companies & families another easy way to filter sexually explicit sites. However, I can't imagine that porn sites would actually use this real estate unless legally forced to for the very same reasons.... At a minimum, they will still keep their.com domains too, which defeats the whole purpose of.xxx anyway.
Basically, this all goes back to the point that the domain naming system is hopelessly screwed up. When anyone can buy any domain for any purpose, the whole thing logically becomes one flat namespace where enforcing anything becomes impossible.
I think we should convert the whole country to DST all year long. It would be a lot simpler for everyone and easier/cheaper from a hardware/software
standpoint.
Contact the Senate energy committee & let 'em know!
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This is why PopCap & others are doing so well. They are focusing on cheaper, yet addictive casual arcade-style games that are easy to crank out. When you lower a game to $9.99, your potential market goes up by at least ten-fold. Ports to mobile platforms also become much easier.
Why yes, why yes we are... Didn't you get the memo? We'll be coming back around to decentralization in Web 3.0 or maybe 4.0, not quite sure yet.
I hate to tell you, but you don't own any song or movie on any CD/DVD/Blu-Ray in your house. The RIAA & MPAA may let you own the physical disk, but they own the content. Their license only lets you play it on their terms and they're never gonna let you forget it. Sad but true...
If you're using IntelliJ IDEA, there is a nice plugin called 'git4idea' that allows a pretty decent git integration experience. Eclipse integration is not so good yet, but is getting better...
If they want Blu-Ray to succeed, they need to lower the disk prices. Who wants to pay $25 for a BD movie when the DVD version is $15 and looks almost as good with an upscaling DVD player???
o decent BD players need to be less than $200
o BD disks need to be same prices as DVD
o all BD players need to be able to play DVDs & upscale (don't want to throw away my DVDs....)
Then it will succeed, not until. It's not some religious problem over DRM, it's simple economics.
Agreed, Python is the way to go for teenagers. The book Python for the Absolute Beginner is a great text to begin with.
Here's the obligatory Gilligan reference.
Basically, this all goes back to the point that the domain naming system is hopelessly screwed up. When anyone can buy any domain for any purpose, the whole thing logically becomes one flat namespace where enforcing anything becomes impossible.
Since when did technical superiority have anything to do with market dominance????
Contact the Senate energy committee & let 'em know!
http://energy.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm/