Windows was bundled with pretty much every PC made since 1991 largely because it dominated the market and no manufacturer was willing to cut their ties with MS.
Me. I have been developing on Windows for 95% of my career, and have done just fine. The amount I have made doesn't seem like huge sums to me, but many of my friends think it is. What do you consider a huge sum of money? A million dollars? 10 million? 100 million?
If 50% of android apps are pirated, then there are a bunch of 'app collectors'. People who grab the app and never use it. I have yet to meet a single person that pirates android apps. I have no doubt that they are out there, but I haven't met a single one. It is actually the only media platform that I have seen 0 piracy. Every other one from Atari 2600 to TV to music to iOS I have seen piracy on.
It is theoretically possible that there is some grand conspiracy by the all of the other Android users to trick me personally into thinking it is rare, but that would take a huge leap of conspiracy theory faith.
What would take a much smaller leap of faith is to believe that there are fanboys, bloggers and astroturfers who have an agenda.
What you call money is 'play' money. It is just an accounting system for barter. It is really no different than the chips in a casino.
I can appreciate that you find it easier to track your spending if you have markers for your barter score. I am the opposite. I find using a CC helps me keep better count on my barter score. I can see how much I have spent since the beginning of the billing cycle, and at the end, I know exactly how much I spent that month. I find it easier to let extra spending slide when I am shuffling around bits of paper and metal while having to remember how much I started with than when I can just see the total start, current, and end numbers.
Violence is a shade of gray. We are actively pursuing the destruction of entire genomes. Every day living organisms are ripped from their homes and devoured while still alive. This is done by the very people you would say are non-violent. You can rationalize why those lives don't count. How, they are enough different than you that it is OK to murder them, but to accept the brutal murder of a carrot, and also claim that violence is an anachronism is just rationalizing your hypocrisy.
You may draw your line at human on human violence. You may draw your line at human on mammal violence. You may even draw your line at human on animal violence, but you are drawing a arbitrary line on a wide palette of grays. I assume that you are not suggesting that work out a peaceful conflict resolution with polio or smallpox...
Ultima IV was still ultra violent. Try playing though it without any weapons or offensive spells. See how far you get. Ultima IV, as awesome as it is, just wraps its violence up in religion.
That was my first thought. Nothing this guy says can be taken as having even the slightest value. He is clearly insane. I don't mean "insane" like I disagree with him. I mean "insane" as in he cannot distinguish between what is real and imagined.
You sound like the kind of person that would drive across town to get a 50% discount on a $4 burger but wouldn't want to take the trouble to drive the same distance to get a 10% discount on a $1000 television. After all, 50% is more than 10%, right?
The number of people who pirate your app is irrelevant, as is the percent of people that pirate it. What is relevant is the number that buy it.
Total BS. There is no way that piracy could account for 6x the revenue. That would require 80% of Android users be be pirating their software. Of course, your analysis is exactly what people say happens when people vote with their wallets. The lower revenue gets attributed to piracy. In my experience, systems with easier piracy tend to sell more software. Having met many people that pirate on iOS, and none that pirate on Android tends to fit with the trend that has existed since the days of the Atari 2600.
It's even more BS when you consider what percentage of Android users actually pirate apps. I am sure that it is done, but I don't know anyone that does it. In fact, I would say that out of every platform I have seen all the way back to the Atari 2600, Android is the single platform with the least amount of piracy I have ever seen.
Given that most Android users don't pirate software, the question becomes, "Why don't any of those people want his software?"
That keeps getting trotted out, but it sound like BS. There may be some cultures that do this, but making a blanket statement like that imparts WAY more planning for the future than is really believable for much of the population that is in poverty.
That requires a fundamental shift in world view. Labor has never been a virtue in itself, but the fruits of those labors have been. Most people don't have the ability to separate the two. Worse yet, wealth has always been measured not by what the individual wants/needs, but by comparison with what those around him has. Our entire world view on economy is incompatible with where we currently are technologically. That incompatibility is only increasing.
This is why at some point we need to accept that as some point in the future most of the population is going to be permanently unemployed. This can either be the dream of a paradise where everyone can live a life of leisure and self fulfillment, or it can be a horror where where the wealthy live in leisure while the teaming masses live in a perpetual state of starvation and poverty. We need to decide which way we will go, and move in that direction.
We are not there yet for the general population, but we are far enough along that we would likely be better off if we accepted that some segments of our society have reached that point.
Solar is already available and affordable for many uses. I expect a calculator (If I ever own a dedicated unit again) to run off of solar power. Solar yard lighting is also heavily used because it is widely available and affordable. Solar for road signs in remote areas, and emergency call boxes are also the norm.
30 years ago, photovoltaic panels were an oddity. Your average person never saw them. Today, they are everywhere. You can't walk through a Walmart without seeing them all over the place for sale.
The question I would have is if it can produce enough electricity to power an LCD film put over the same window. Slap a battery into the window casing, and you have self powered windows that don't need curtains.
The "40% Alcohol by Volume" at the bottom of the book clearly indicates that the cover is intended to look like an alcohol bottle. It is even the same percentage as JD, so it is clear that the cover is not just a similar looking product in a different industry. It was clearly intended to make an association to Jack Daniels whiskey.
Plus the "40% Alcohol by Volume" printed at the bottom is a pretty clear indication that they are intentionally trying to look like Alcohol, and not just "Old Western". Trademark is the one form of "IP" that really is needed, and helpful to both the seller and the buyer. JD really did handle this in the best way possible. While they technically could have authorized the use of the image for the book, we don't know if the book is any good. It wouldn't have been very neighborly to have told him that the book sucked if it did in fact suck.
I say we award Jack Daniels one Mecha-Anti-Streisand.
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Windows was bundled with pretty much every PC made since 1991 largely because it dominated the market and no manufacturer was willing to cut their ties with MS.
Me. I have been developing on Windows for 95% of my career, and have done just fine. The amount I have made doesn't seem like huge sums to me, but many of my friends think it is. What do you consider a huge sum of money? A million dollars? 10 million? 100 million?
If 50% of android apps are pirated, then there are a bunch of 'app collectors'. People who grab the app and never use it. I have yet to meet a single person that pirates android apps. I have no doubt that they are out there, but I haven't met a single one. It is actually the only media platform that I have seen 0 piracy. Every other one from Atari 2600 to TV to music to iOS I have seen piracy on.
It is theoretically possible that there is some grand conspiracy by the all of the other Android users to trick me personally into thinking it is rare, but that would take a huge leap of conspiracy theory faith.
What would take a much smaller leap of faith is to believe that there are fanboys, bloggers and astroturfers who have an agenda.
What you call money is 'play' money. It is just an accounting system for barter. It is really no different than the chips in a casino.
I can appreciate that you find it easier to track your spending if you have markers for your barter score. I am the opposite. I find using a CC helps me keep better count on my barter score. I can see how much I have spent since the beginning of the billing cycle, and at the end, I know exactly how much I spent that month. I find it easier to let extra spending slide when I am shuffling around bits of paper and metal while having to remember how much I started with than when I can just see the total start, current, and end numbers.
Or, it could be that there is less piracy on the Android, but your fandom makes you WANT there to be more piracy.
Sure, there are some non violent ball games, and hopscotch seems pretty non-violent, but hide and seek and tag are both clearly hunting/warfare games.
Graphic Adventure
Puzzle
Gambling
Physics
Find the Object
Match the blocks
Sports
Simulators
Resource Management
Pinball
Etc...Etc..Etc...
I didn't play Portal 1, but Portal 2 was certainly a battle to the death with lots of violence. Frequently that violence was commited with the gun.
Violence is a shade of gray. We are actively pursuing the destruction of entire genomes. Every day living organisms are ripped from their homes and devoured while still alive. This is done by the very people you would say are non-violent. You can rationalize why those lives don't count. How, they are enough different than you that it is OK to murder them, but to accept the brutal murder of a carrot, and also claim that violence is an anachronism is just rationalizing your hypocrisy.
You may draw your line at human on human violence. You may draw your line at human on mammal violence. You may even draw your line at human on animal violence, but you are drawing a arbitrary line on a wide palette of grays. I assume that you are not suggesting that work out a peaceful conflict resolution with polio or smallpox...
Well, as a rule, RPG Heroes are Jerks. http://www.collegehumor.com/video/5977008/rpg-heroes-are-jerks
Ultima IV was still ultra violent. Try playing though it without any weapons or offensive spells. See how far you get. Ultima IV, as awesome as it is, just wraps its violence up in religion.
That was my first thought. Nothing this guy says can be taken as having even the slightest value. He is clearly insane. I don't mean "insane" like I disagree with him. I mean "insane" as in he cannot distinguish between what is real and imagined.
Except that Linux hasn't failed as a Mainstream OS. It is incredibly popular. Most people are running at least one device on Linux if not more.
You sound like the kind of person that would drive across town to get a 50% discount on a $4 burger but wouldn't want to take the trouble to drive the same distance to get a 10% discount on a $1000 television. After all, 50% is more than 10%, right?
The number of people who pirate your app is irrelevant, as is the percent of people that pirate it. What is relevant is the number that buy it.
Total BS. There is no way that piracy could account for 6x the revenue. That would require 80% of Android users be be pirating their software. Of course, your analysis is exactly what people say happens when people vote with their wallets. The lower revenue gets attributed to piracy. In my experience, systems with easier piracy tend to sell more software. Having met many people that pirate on iOS, and none that pirate on Android tends to fit with the trend that has existed since the days of the Atari 2600.
Which is why the vast majority of people don't do it.
It's even more BS when you consider what percentage of Android users actually pirate apps. I am sure that it is done, but I don't know anyone that does it. In fact, I would say that out of every platform I have seen all the way back to the Atari 2600, Android is the single platform with the least amount of piracy I have ever seen.
Given that most Android users don't pirate software, the question becomes, "Why don't any of those people want his software?"
That keeps getting trotted out, but it sound like BS. There may be some cultures that do this, but making a blanket statement like that imparts WAY more planning for the future than is really believable for much of the population that is in poverty.
That requires a fundamental shift in world view. Labor has never been a virtue in itself, but the fruits of those labors have been. Most people don't have the ability to separate the two. Worse yet, wealth has always been measured not by what the individual wants/needs, but by comparison with what those around him has. Our entire world view on economy is incompatible with where we currently are technologically. That incompatibility is only increasing.
This is why at some point we need to accept that as some point in the future most of the population is going to be permanently unemployed. This can either be the dream of a paradise where everyone can live a life of leisure and self fulfillment, or it can be a horror where where the wealthy live in leisure while the teaming masses live in a perpetual state of starvation and poverty. We need to decide which way we will go, and move in that direction.
We are not there yet for the general population, but we are far enough along that we would likely be better off if we accepted that some segments of our society have reached that point.
Beyond that, conservation alone is a dead end. It is an acceptance that we are going to run out, and we just want to make the party last one more day.
Solar is already available and affordable for many uses. I expect a calculator (If I ever own a dedicated unit again) to run off of solar power. Solar yard lighting is also heavily used because it is widely available and affordable. Solar for road signs in remote areas, and emergency call boxes are also the norm.
30 years ago, photovoltaic panels were an oddity. Your average person never saw them. Today, they are everywhere. You can't walk through a Walmart without seeing them all over the place for sale.
The question I would have is if it can produce enough electricity to power an LCD film put over the same window. Slap a battery into the window casing, and you have self powered windows that don't need curtains.
The "40% Alcohol by Volume" at the bottom of the book clearly indicates that the cover is intended to look like an alcohol bottle. It is even the same percentage as JD, so it is clear that the cover is not just a similar looking product in a different industry. It was clearly intended to make an association to Jack Daniels whiskey.
Plus the "40% Alcohol by Volume" printed at the bottom is a pretty clear indication that they are intentionally trying to look like Alcohol, and not just "Old Western". Trademark is the one form of "IP" that really is needed, and helpful to both the seller and the buyer. JD really did handle this in the best way possible. While they technically could have authorized the use of the image for the book, we don't know if the book is any good. It wouldn't have been very neighborly to have told him that the book sucked if it did in fact suck.
I say we award Jack Daniels one Mecha-Anti-Streisand.
It is the Anti-Streisand.