bingo. this will never happen, nobody wants TV to be equal to internet, and the demand is nonexistent. It's not too different than 3d tv, which has also been underwhelming.
actually, no. The concept was great. The implementation was shit.
Menus that are 9-15 deep, where you can't move while navigating them is beyond retarded. There is zero reason square had to design things like that except "it was for the console" and thus they bombed.
By not lowering the price, they let the free solution which (granted, is missing a few things in their eyes) become the primary solution - exclusively because it is that much cheaper.
Even at $10 (MS has deals on office for exactly that at times), what's the point if the free product (libreoffice/oo) delivers close enough value? The free product still becomes preferred because it's free.
Uh, it's software. There development costs are fixed and so are the distribution costs. Lowering the price would simply make them more revenue at a lower profit margin.
Why do you think they allow people to purchase MS products over the net? Just convenience? No. Because all they have to do is pay for bandwidth (which is already paid for, thus zero cost), and charge a credit card transaction.
The difference here is that people deserve some modicum of privacy. Granted, putting things public is not the way to do it, but we need a better balance than gov't spying without a court order.
I also agree that the aforementioned people are also the kinds that make those crazy christian coalitions and get hellbent on assassinating the prez or other ridiculously insane ideas. The correlation of religion and violence is astounding within certain religions, and I mean christian and not necessarily muslim.
you know the irony here? That if MS were to charge $20 or $30 a license for office, people would buy it. It's only pirated because their price they charge vs the value it actually has is so out of wack, and that they also did a shitty job developing it (ribbon is hardly the only issue).
it's incredibly easy. Why would they have to have it hooked straight up the the battery? They can splice a wire and have it run off, and if it's hidden anywhere you pretty much wont' see it.
This is not complicated, but it is pretty scary and definitely something we should hope the supreme court will strike down soon.
he doesn't mean that they should get a fee, the word potential was accurate. He means that Oracle wants a fee anyway. it's called entitlement culture, and this is what happens when intellectual property laws run out of wack.
It's not about the old people who think they deserve something from the young, it's what happens when you conflate owning something intangible in the same way as owning a physical product that people tend to get the other properties mixed up.
What IBM just did however, was gave google the finger, straight up.
FFXIV would do "you can't move until you do X action" tutorial though, which basically means that the tutorial would have a minimum amount of time it'd take to go through (probably an hour).
square really fucked menus by not even letting people move around with a menu open.
what about the fact that the guy thought it might have been a freakin bomb, or that they interrogated him as soon as they got the device back, or the threats if he didn't give the device back? You think the comments made didn't qualify as intimidation? Might want to RTFA.
just because something's currently legal doesn't mean it wouldn't qualify as terorrism.
this has nothing to do with the war on terror crap.
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wait, so you're trying to say that the site magically declined?
Is it hard for people to realize that slashdot hasn't really changed a whole lot from the start?
you call those things special features? export to web?
don't get me wrong, excel does better, than the office version but analysis is not an area where excel does better than anyone else.
the rest of the openoffice suite is substantially better than the MS setup, and most importantly does not have a ribbon interface.
uh, supply and demand is truly only to account for price. It doesn't account for availability and/or sustainability, and was never intended to do so.
murdoch has tons of resources but it doesn't mean he can make something useful out of them or even inspire change.
how's myspace doing? how's news corp doing?
the man is (lately, but not always) a colossal failure with an excess of resources.
there is no difference in expression between tv being == internet or vice versa, if the two are attempting to be brought together.
It still won't happen.People screamed how webtv was awesome, and yet it sucked, and we all know it. It was all advertiser/supplier hype.
This is no different. Netflix on your TV? Facebook on your TV?
bingo. this will never happen, nobody wants TV to be equal to internet, and the demand is nonexistent. It's not too different than 3d tv, which has also been underwhelming.
wow, I suppose MS probably owns facebook, huh
hahahah. You think MS isn't going downhill? Have you looked at all of their markets?
windows share: going down
windows server share: going down
office share: going down
mobile share: nonexistent
profits: down
what's left again?
actually, no. The concept was great. The implementation was shit.
Menus that are 9-15 deep, where you can't move while navigating them is beyond retarded. There is zero reason square had to design things like that except "it was for the console" and thus they bombed.
I don't think Microsoft has gotten to the "I'm going to go out of business" part yet, but they appear to be trying to speed it up with facebook.
I wonder how much more they think they can buy marketshare before they fail?
and be busy flipping out over potential threats instead of focusing on real ones? no.
By not lowering the price, they let the free solution which (granted, is missing a few things in their eyes) become the primary solution - exclusively because it is that much cheaper.
Even at $10 (MS has deals on office for exactly that at times), what's the point if the free product (libreoffice/oo) delivers close enough value? The free product still becomes preferred because it's free.
Uh, it's software. There development costs are fixed and so are the distribution costs. Lowering the price would simply make them more revenue at a lower profit margin.
Why do you think they allow people to purchase MS products over the net? Just convenience? No. Because all they have to do is pay for bandwidth (which is already paid for, thus zero cost), and charge a credit card transaction.
uh, he thought it was a bomb. It's not an exaggeration. If you saw something fishy sticking out of your car would you be fearful of your own safety?
This is terrorism by definition, brought to you via the government in this scenario.
Your definition of terrorist sympathiser is incorrect, so the "sufficient reason to investigate" becomes invalid as well.
If they did not investigate this they could focus on real issues, like, I don't know, issues IN the US and not issues in foreign countries?
The difference here is that people deserve some modicum of privacy. Granted, putting things public is not the way to do it, but we need a better balance than gov't spying without a court order.
I also agree that the aforementioned people are also the kinds that make those crazy christian coalitions and get hellbent on assassinating the prez or other ridiculously insane ideas. The correlation of religion and violence is astounding within certain religions, and I mean christian and not necessarily muslim.
you know the irony here? That if MS were to charge $20 or $30 a license for office, people would buy it. It's only pirated because their price they charge vs the value it actually has is so out of wack, and that they also did a shitty job developing it (ribbon is hardly the only issue).
it's incredibly easy. Why would they have to have it hooked straight up the the battery? They can splice a wire and have it run off, and if it's hidden anywhere you pretty much wont' see it.
This is not complicated, but it is pretty scary and definitely something we should hope the supreme court will strike down soon.
if your phone is being stolen you have security problems other than facebook.
he doesn't mean that they should get a fee, the word potential was accurate. He means that Oracle wants a fee anyway. it's called entitlement culture, and this is what happens when intellectual property laws run out of wack.
It's not about the old people who think they deserve something from the young, it's what happens when you conflate owning something intangible in the same way as owning a physical product that people tend to get the other properties mixed up.
What IBM just did however, was gave google the finger, straight up.
number of sales doesn't equate to quality, it only equates to popularity.
The yugo was popular, but it didn't mean it was a great car.
FFXIV would do "you can't move until you do X action" tutorial though, which basically means that the tutorial would have a minimum amount of time it'd take to go through (probably an hour).
square really fucked menus by not even letting people move around with a menu open.
Exactly, XIV is in the same situation as XI was - but this is years later, so there is no excuse for that.
Lots of things have been improved, but I felt no reason or desire to get the game. It's got too many things still substantially wrong.
of course the importance is realizing the opposite side of the perspective - how much money is gained from these costs?
This is the part corporations have a harder time measuring.
really?
what about the fact that the guy thought it might have been a freakin bomb, or that they interrogated him as soon as they got the device back, or the threats if he didn't give the device back? You think the comments made didn't qualify as intimidation? Might want to RTFA.
just because something's currently legal doesn't mean it wouldn't qualify as terorrism.
this has nothing to do with the war on terror crap.
actually, I would define subversive activities such as putting a GPS device in someone's car to track them without their consent as terrorism.