Who are the customers then if its not people with large music collections? If someone has thousands of music files I think its safe to say that they have bought a CD or two.
Linux potentially infringes 283 patents, including 27 held by Microsoft but none that have been validated by court judgments,
according to a group that sells insurance to protect those using or selling Linux against intellectual-property litigation.
Are you crazy? The whole economy is based on being able to sell people stuff they don't need for twice what it's worth. If suddenly there was a way for the average person to know what he needed, the whole industry could collapse.
Lucky for us, the system would not really be telling consumers what they needed. Its purpose would be to convince consumers that they need the latest product.
Instead of dealing with ignorant customers, you will be dealing with ignorant customers who think they know what they are doing.
Search engines are a dangerous area though. You're always fighting the whole of the internet, everyone is trying to manipulate your search algorithms to try and get themselves ranked higher than they deserve.
The success of a search engine by itself is mostly a function of the quality of results and it isn't very difficult to switch to a new one. With these other applications, even if google starts having trouble returning decent search results, they will have people slightly locked in. They will have a much longer amount of time to fix things before they start to lose people to a better search engine.
I can't figure out why the so called bubble ended up busting. How did all those companies fail when Moore's Law garentees that profits will double every 8 months ?
Just be glad that the forign workers are still working for American companies.
Eventually the trained and experienced workers overseas will start to realize that they can start up thier own companies. Im sure having all the profits from their work sent off to American millionaires wont sit well with them.
I could do with memory usage and stuff displayed on the keyboard. I'm a windows user and it would help to be able to determine how soon I will have to restart my computer.
If buying CDs was the only way to get them the person with 1000 downloaded albums probably wouldn't have gotten very interested in misic the first place.
MP3s have made everyone music fans, even my father has 200+ songs (its a close approximation to the top 200 lamest songs ever produced, but anyways) The music industry's problem is that they rely too in large part on casual music listeners. The type that tends to buy whatever the music industry has hyped up because they've heard a lot about it.
These days the availability of MP3s means most people know what they want already and most of the time what they want isn't the latest overhyped pop song.
The worst thing I think is that when the music industry has to start cutting costs, originality is probably going to be the first casualty.
The computer is just an innocent tool being used by the spammer. It would be more fair to make the user do the computations. This would also solve the problem caused by computers of different speeds.
There've been numerous post about declining PC game sales and companies going out of business. It seems clear that in many cases game companies aren't giving us stuff that we want to buy.
The reasons that people are gravitating towards sequals is in part because many of the games out there are just ripoffs of a popular game. In the field of less well known games we have a large number of crappy copy-cat games and a few fun original games. After getting riped off for a few $100s trying to find a decent game in the forest of lame ones, one finds themself either sticking to known brands or resorting to piracy to keep from wasting money.
Can't blame them for outsourcing. But corpoartions are exporting their expenses to cheeper locations and then turning around and charging us the same prices we would pay for stuff made here. While this is probably a good thing in that it keeps any competing companies from having to outsource to just to compete. But really its just keeping prices artificially high. If the savings from outsourcing were passed on to consumers rather than company execs, salaries here could drop some while we keep the same standard of living. Hopefully stopping the need for companies to outsource to be competitive. (Of course i probably dont know what i'm talking about =) )
Is there really a social desirability bias built into the question of being 'addicted' to a game?
Not imo, when a large portion of your social interaction is with other so called addicts.
Sure we admit to being addicted, but we think of our addiction as similar to that of someone who plays golf often or that watches television.
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Who are the customers then if its not people with large music collections? If someone has thousands of music files I think its safe to say that they have bought a CD or two.
Are you crazy? The whole economy is based on being able to sell people stuff they don't need for twice what it's worth. If suddenly there was a way for the average person to know what he needed, the whole industry could collapse.
Lucky for us, the system would not really be telling consumers what they needed. Its purpose would be to convince consumers that they need the latest product.
Instead of dealing with ignorant customers, you will be dealing with ignorant customers who think they know what they are doing.
Search engines are a dangerous area though. You're always fighting the whole of the internet, everyone is trying to manipulate your search algorithms to try and get themselves ranked higher than they deserve.
The success of a search engine by itself is mostly a function of the quality of results and it isn't very difficult to switch to a new one. With these other applications, even if google starts having trouble returning decent search results, they will have people slightly locked in. They will have a much longer amount of time to fix things before they start to lose people to a better search engine.
Is it just me or does it sound like a bad thing that all these governments are going to be searching for security flaws?
I can't figure out why the so called bubble ended up busting. How did all those companies fail when Moore's Law garentees that profits will double every 8 months ?
When 2007 arrives, the game will have been canceled and Longhorn will have been delayed till 2009 or so.
Just be glad that the forign workers are still working for American companies. Eventually the trained and experienced workers overseas will start to realize that they can start up thier own companies. Im sure having all the profits from their work sent off to American millionaires wont sit well with them.
The real criminals are the people who have huge amounts of downloaded files and wont share them after they download them.
I think the plan is to kill P2P networks by encouraging more people to start downloading without sharing.
I could do with memory usage and stuff displayed on the keyboard. I'm a windows user and it would help to be able to determine how soon I will have to restart my computer.
If buying CDs was the only way to get them the person with 1000 downloaded albums probably wouldn't have gotten very interested in misic the first place.
MP3s have made everyone music fans, even my father has 200+ songs (its a close approximation to the top 200 lamest songs ever produced, but anyways) The music industry's problem is that they rely too in large part on casual music listeners. The type that tends to buy whatever the music industry has hyped up because they've heard a lot about it.
These days the availability of MP3s means most people know what they want already and most of the time what they want isn't the latest overhyped pop song.
The worst thing I think is that when the music industry has to start cutting costs, originality is probably going to be the first casualty.
I don't see how piracy is shrinking the market. It seems to my that piracy should only hurt the profits from good games.
The computer is just an innocent tool being used by the spammer. It would be more fair to make the user do the computations. This would also solve the problem caused by computers of different speeds.
There've been numerous post about declining PC game sales and companies going out of business. It seems clear that in many cases game companies aren't giving us stuff that we want to buy. The reasons that people are gravitating towards sequals is in part because many of the games out there are just ripoffs of a popular game. In the field of less well known games we have a large number of crappy copy-cat games and a few fun original games. After getting riped off for a few $100s trying to find a decent game in the forest of lame ones, one finds themself either sticking to known brands or resorting to piracy to keep from wasting money.
Can't blame them for outsourcing. But corpoartions are exporting their expenses to cheeper locations and then turning around and charging us the same prices we would pay for stuff made here. While this is probably a good thing in that it keeps any competing companies from having to outsource to just to compete. But really its just keeping prices artificially high. If the savings from outsourcing were passed on to consumers rather than company execs, salaries here could drop some while we keep the same standard of living. Hopefully stopping the need for companies to outsource to be competitive. (Of course i probably dont know what i'm talking about =) )
Is there really a social desirability bias built into the question of being 'addicted' to a game? Not imo, when a large portion of your social interaction is with other so called addicts.
Sure we admit to being addicted, but we think of our addiction as similar to that of someone who plays golf often or that watches television.