I wonder if any developers have bumped up rates for in app purchases (+30%) while still giving the option to buy on the website w/o the premium. Not sure if this would violate any rules, but this would seem to offer customers a choice, while exposing Apple's cut for convenience.
As part of the closed beta, just want to report I've had no issues at all, logging in to play the game. Granted, I didn't attempt on launch day, but it's been pretty decent. I was more upset with the limited playtime (limited to 1 hr) and inability to save anything. Also, a lot of the full game functionality is disable.
Anyway, don't think it's right what EA is doing in terms of banning users posting negative reviews, but I suppose it's their site and they have every right to do as they please. Unfortunately for folks, this means fans of the game have to suck it up and deal with the EA BS, but at least they've finally released a new version of the game after years.
Cheers.
For me the best new feature will be Find My iPhone - a service that used to required the $99 mobile me subscription, but is now simply included free. Works for Iphone 4.0 w/ iOS 4.2
Allows you to locate, show a message, play a sound, or remotely lock/wipe device.
So many of you seem to think that Microsoft having to advertise for another firm is a terrible thing, but this is exactly what happened with Real (a real pain in the a$$ if you ask me). Microsoft must pay for $301 Million dollars worth of advertising for Real...
Either way, MSFT is out millions of dollars which although you may not think it's significant certainly adds up every year. MSFT having to pay hundreds of millions in the US, millions in the UK, and now millions in Asia, and rewriting code to be "compliant" will begin to have a real impact.
Typically authors of such code are proud of their work and as such will sign their name in the source. This is a common practice and has happened with almost every worm.
The interesting question would be how the go about finding the programmer based on their handle
I have tried just about every single anti-spam software out there, so I have some experience. After being fed up with getting false positives and having to deal with tons of spam getting past the spam filters I tried out Cloudmark's Spamnet - a community based approach to fighting spam. So far it has been 95-99% effective with 0 false positives which is the most important factor for me.
In the past couple of months it has blocked 19,221 spam messages. I don't even bother to send spam to a Spam folder anymore it just goes straight to the deleted items.
For those of you getting a lot of e-mail, the price of the subscription is definitely worth it.
Real is probably in a lot of trouble here since they obviously reverse engineered some code from the iPod for their benefit without Apple's permission. I would hate to be a lawyer for Real at this point because it's basically like saying, "Yes we did violate the Terms and Conditions of the iPod, but we had a good reason to" - this generally doesn't stand up too well in court!
The DMCA can be applied if Real circumvented Apple's copyright protection mechanisms - regardless of whether it was for interoperability. It is a violation of the DMCA to not only do it yourself, but then also to distribute the means to do it e.g. the DeCSS case with Jon Johansen.
A few of you may remember the article The Way the Music Died in which I wrote that our company cStream (http://www.cstream.com was allowing people to stream full previews of songs while purchasing songs of higher quality in MP3 format.
Personally, whenever I buy a song on iTunes or BuyMusic I burn it to a CD and then rip it into MP3 format. Then I don't have to worry about losing the license to the file if I decide to purchase a new music player or a new computer.
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Better post this as funny:)
Don't forget to charge up your batteries for an electric car with that electricity created by coal. Coal accounts for 50%+ of the electricity in the US.
Finally a post where I can do some blatant self-promotion of a music site I've been working on. It's called cStream http://www.cstream.com
Unlike most sites, we don't charge artists to post their music (i.e. like music.download.com, soundclick.com etc...) and we provide them with unlimited storage for their music. We don't believe in DRM, all our files are distributed as MP3s. After all DRM is not really effective if you can Buy. Rip. Burn MP3 from any music store with DRM (Buymusic, iTunes etc..). Thus DRM is a really weak level of protection for music.
We've only been open for a couple of months but already have a few hundred songs. We try to sell artists music and give them 50% of the revenue. Our problem is that because our music is independent music generally no one has heard it before. Because we only give away 30 seconds of the song in high quality our sales are fairly low.
We've been thinking about switching our model to providing full length lower quality copies of a song with the ability to purchase high quality versions of the song.
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I just set it up. You can also receive the code via a phone call.
I wonder if any developers have bumped up rates for in app purchases (+30%) while still giving the option to buy on the website w/o the premium. Not sure if this would violate any rules, but this would seem to offer customers a choice, while exposing Apple's cut for convenience.
this is why we can't have nice things...
As part of the closed beta, just want to report I've had no issues at all, logging in to play the game. Granted, I didn't attempt on launch day, but it's been pretty decent. I was more upset with the limited playtime (limited to 1 hr) and inability to save anything. Also, a lot of the full game functionality is disable. Anyway, don't think it's right what EA is doing in terms of banning users posting negative reviews, but I suppose it's their site and they have every right to do as they please. Unfortunately for folks, this means fans of the game have to suck it up and deal with the EA BS, but at least they've finally released a new version of the game after years. Cheers.
Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing. Gives a new perspective to clicking "place order." For others, here's the link w/o all the page jumps: http://www.alternet.org/print/story/154344/what_happened_when_i_got_a_job_at_a_soul-crushing%2C_abusive_warehouse
For me the best new feature will be Find My iPhone - a service that used to required the $99 mobile me subscription, but is now simply included free. Works for Iphone 4.0 w/ iOS 4.2 Allows you to locate, show a message, play a sound, or remotely lock/wipe device.
I'd post, but I already forgot what the headline was about...
But perhaps they want it to be broken. After all, it's probably not Google that is insisting on the DRM.
Jeez... aren't we being insightful and interesting today
God help us if his designs look anything like his home page.
So many of you seem to think that Microsoft having to advertise for another firm is a terrible thing, but this is exactly what happened with Real (a real pain in the a$$ if you ask me). Microsoft must pay for $301 Million dollars worth of advertising for Real... Either way, MSFT is out millions of dollars which although you may not think it's significant certainly adds up every year. MSFT having to pay hundreds of millions in the US, millions in the UK, and now millions in Asia, and rewriting code to be "compliant" will begin to have a real impact.
they are making a company where all the women say yes... I like it!
those aren't bugs, those are features!
The only way for Sony to screw themselves over any more with this would be to send replacement CDs with a new and, ahem "improved" DRM scheme
Typically authors of such code are proud of their work and as such will sign their name in the source. This is a common practice and has happened with almost every worm. The interesting question would be how the go about finding the programmer based on their handle
I have tried just about every single anti-spam software out there, so I have some experience. After being fed up with getting false positives and having to deal with tons of spam getting past the spam filters I tried out Cloudmark's Spamnet - a community based approach to fighting spam. So far it has been 95-99% effective with 0 false positives which is the most important factor for me.
In the past couple of months it has blocked 19,221 spam messages. I don't even bother to send spam to a Spam folder anymore it just goes straight to the deleted items.
For those of you getting a lot of e-mail, the price of the subscription is definitely worth it.
URL: http://cloudmark.com/products/spamnet/
Real is probably in a lot of trouble here since they obviously reverse engineered some code from the iPod for their benefit without Apple's permission. I would hate to be a lawyer for Real at this point because it's basically like saying, "Yes we did violate the Terms and Conditions of the iPod, but we had a good reason to" - this generally doesn't stand up too well in court!
The DMCA can be applied if Real circumvented Apple's copyright protection mechanisms - regardless of whether it was for interoperability. It is a violation of the DMCA to not only do it yourself, but then also to distribute the means to do it e.g. the DeCSS case with Jon Johansen.
A few of you may remember the article The Way the Music Died in which I wrote that our company cStream (http://www.cstream.com was allowing people to stream full previews of songs while purchasing songs of higher quality in MP3 format.
Personally, whenever I buy a song on iTunes or BuyMusic I burn it to a CD and then rip it into MP3 format. Then I don't have to worry about losing the license to the file if I decide to purchase a new music player or a new computer.
is that a server I smell melting?
but where's the machine that will read it for me?
or something to turn the pages for me while I sip on my hot cocoa...
Awww... come on that didn't get a 5 for funny?
Canada? Never heard of it...
"If you bought a chemical or insulation that caused death or injury, get ready to sue the pants"
Sueing is quite hard once you are dead.
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Better post this as funny :)
Don't forget to charge up your batteries for an electric car with that electricity created by coal. Coal accounts for 50%+ of the electricity in the US.
Finally a post where I can do some blatant self-promotion of a music site I've been working on. It's called cStream
http://www.cstream.com
Unlike most sites, we don't charge artists to post their music (i.e. like music.download.com, soundclick.com etc...) and we provide them with unlimited storage for their music. We don't believe in DRM, all our files are distributed as MP3s. After all DRM is not really effective if you can Buy. Rip. Burn MP3 from any music store with DRM (Buymusic, iTunes etc..). Thus DRM is a really weak level of protection for music.
We've only been open for a couple of months but already have a few hundred songs. We try to sell artists music and give them 50% of the revenue. Our problem is that because our music is independent music generally no one has heard it before. Because we only give away 30 seconds of the song in high quality our sales are fairly low.
We've been thinking about switching our model to providing full length lower quality copies of a song with the ability to purchase high quality versions of the song.