Not the Applecare or MS Support costs that were mentioned above. I've discovered a bug in SQL Server 2000 before, and the call would have cost me $295 (had it not been waived). Fixing that bug I am sure took more than a few minutes, meaning they would have "lost money" on that $295 deal.
You are being deliberately obtuse. Your incident does not exist in a vacuum. The cost to fix your bug is amortized over the entire support contract revenue stream. Do you really think that software companies would be so gung ho on selling support if it were not so profitable?
You have a real potty mouth.
Boo hoo for you. If you think having your bullshit called bullshit is so terrible, its just further proof you don't have a clue about the real world.
They cancelled it and Fox officially said that they would not allow Channel 4 to show it either because they did not want internet copies of the unaired (in the US) episodes to compete with the upcoming DVD release.
When I read that, it pissed me off enough that I've decided that I will never buy Point Pleasant on DVD. I will just wait for internet copies of the DVD rips of the unaired episodes.
I think it's about time networks start to realize they need to have a 3-season investment, at least, in order to establish a larger viewership.
What do they care about a large viewership. All they care about is short-term profit. Fox seems to have developed a cute little game - run about half of the episodes of a show - just enough to hook a decent sized number of fans and then cancel it. Later that year, release the entire show on DVD so those fans can buy it - it is like they get paid to run commercials for their own DVDs.
Here's just a few such series:
Firefly Tru Calling (they finally ran 5 of the episodes from season two and then re-cancelled the show before the 6th and last one aired) Point Pleasant Wonderfalls
Not if it's a bug, you don't. If it's a bug, there is no charge for MS or Apple. None.
There absolutely is if you want it fixed in a hurry. Else you can just wait until they get around to it, which might be with the next service pack or it might be with the next point release.
And the costs of the support don't come close to covering a big bug fix or rush patch job.
Bullshit. Support contracts are huge profit centers for most software companies.
The guy from the Comptroller's Office said that the applicable sales tax was that of the shipping address whether or not it was ultimately delivered elsewhere.
So, if you lived near the border with another state; And you had a friend on the other side of the border; And the company had no presence in that other state, thus no requirement to collect taxes for that other state; And you had your order shipped to his address in your name -- Would you then have to pay texas sales tax?
In both cases the person doing the fixes lost the opportunity to do other work.
Charge for a support contract, that's what everyone does already. You want MS to fix something after your 90 days, you pay. You want Apple to fix something after your 90 days, you pay - its called Applecare.
Next time skip the chest puffing and pay attention to the way the software industry really works.
if millions of home users stampede to emachines discount boxes
Typical home users will do no such thing, they like to have a supported platform.
For get all untrusted computing platform crap - all Apple has to do is say "OSX is only supported on boxes x, y and z" and then only the fringe will go to emachines (or homebrew) and try to run it on non apple hardware.
Apple makes next to nothing on its software sales. In fact, some of its products are sold at a loss. The lion's share of Apple's revenue comes from hardware sales.
Bzzzt! Somebody has bought the copyright cartel's line hook line and sinker.
The only way a company can lose money on [i]additional[/i] software sales is if they sold the software for less than the price of delivery. Software development is a fixed cost. Once it is finished, additional sales are pure profit minus distribution costs.
It is a sign that you are not good enough at your job that you have to resort to finding justification within the herd instead of within your own abilities.
Sure, not everybody can be so good at what they do that they can ignore the herd. In fact, by definition most people do not have level of ability to stand out from the crowd.
But don't lie to yourself and dress up your conformist behaviour as some sort of higher status when it is really just a way to shield your mediocrity.
Stand out of the crowd by what you do, not what you look like. Anything else is just juvenile.
Stand out from the crowd because your compentency earns you the freedom to live your life your way.
it is pretty ironic how the supposedly tolerant liberals turn out to be just as exclusionary, prejudiced, and judgmental as the conservatives they ridicule (as opposed to entering an intelligent discourse with) on a daily basis.
I listen to Rush Limbaugh every day. And every day he goes on and on about just that point. But the difference between him and you is that he is the one telling the Big Lie, and you are the one believing it.
Yeah, once they get hooked on just how good HDTV looks, their kids will have even less reason to get off the sofa and get some exercise.
Seriously, it is entirely reasonable to think that this requirement will actiually lower the price of televisions due to economies of scale. Once implemented, all tv's 25" and up will have digital tuners which probably means an order of magnitude more combo analog-digital tuner chipsets being produced which should lead to a significant per-unit cost of perduction (amortization of R&D and cheaper component pricing due to bulk purchasing).
Lots of people talking about the possibility of dual-booting windows and osx. But they are missing a key part of the puzzle - virtualization.
Imagine VMware, SoftPC, etc but running at the full speed of the native hardware with full isolation between running OSes. In a year, that's the way any serious virtualization will work. The hardware assist that Intel's VT and AMD's Pacifica doohickies provide is what it will take to do it.
So, it will be entirely possible to run both OS-X and Windows and Linux simultaneously on the same cpu with no performance hit. Heck, with multi-cores becoming so popular you'll be able to give each OS it's own processor so they can all run in true parallel if that's what you want.
Sure, Intel and AMD are talking like this virutalization stuff is only for servers - but they always say that about the new toys right up to the point when they start releasing it on the consumer-grade systems too.
My problem in this particular case is with AFTRA/SAG claiming that the workers being abused are the voice actors. This simply isn't the case. If AFTRA and SAG operated on principle, then instead of trying to shake down the game developers for cash for the voice actors, they would realize that the programmers, artists, and others working 60+ hours a week for months on end are the ones who need union protection, not necessarily to increase their wages, but to prevent the employers from pushing their workers to such extremes.
That's not SAG's job - they represent theatrical performers.
There are other unions in Hollywood that are more closely aligned with the type of work the software developers do. There is the writer's guild and IATSE which is the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States.
In short, the unions could price themselves right out of the market.
Then what are you bitching about? Either they price themselves out of the market or they don't. So far, they have not. You, in your ignorance of the way the business works, have the personal opinion that the voice actors are overpaid. Clearly, the market disagrees with you.
Olivine is green. See this picture of an isolated, but still somewhat famous, green-sand beach in Hawaii It is green because of all the olivine in the sand, been there myself a few times:
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Not the Applecare or MS Support costs that were mentioned above. I've discovered a bug in SQL Server 2000 before, and the call would have cost me $295 (had it not been waived). Fixing that bug I am sure took more than a few minutes, meaning they would have "lost money" on that $295 deal.
You are being deliberately obtuse. Your incident does not exist in a vacuum. The cost to fix your bug is amortized over the entire support contract revenue stream. Do you really think that software companies would be so gung ho on selling support if it were not so profitable?
You have a real potty mouth.
Boo hoo for you. If you think having your bullshit called bullshit is so terrible, its just further proof you don't have a clue about the real world.
They cancelled it and Fox officially said that they would not allow Channel 4 to show it either because they did not want internet copies of the unaired (in the US) episodes to compete with the upcoming DVD release.
When I read that, it pissed me off enough that I've decided that I will never buy Point Pleasant on DVD. I will just wait for internet copies of the DVD rips of the unaired episodes.
I think it's about time networks start to realize they need to have a 3-season investment, at least, in order to establish a larger viewership.
What do they care about a large viewership. All they care about is short-term profit. Fox seems to have developed a cute little game - run about half of the episodes of a show - just enough to hook a decent sized number of fans and then cancel it. Later that year, release the entire show on DVD so those fans can buy it - it is like they get paid to run commercials for their own DVDs.
Here's just a few such series:
Firefly
Tru Calling (they finally ran 5 of the episodes from season two and then re-cancelled the show before the 6th and last one aired)
Point Pleasant
Wonderfalls
Not if it's a bug, you don't. If it's a bug, there is no charge for MS or Apple. None.
There absolutely is if you want it fixed in a hurry. Else you can just wait until they get around to it, which might be with the next service pack or it might be with the next point release.
And the costs of the support don't come close to covering a big bug fix or rush patch job.
Bullshit. Support contracts are huge profit centers for most software companies.
The guy from the Comptroller's Office said that the applicable sales tax was that of the shipping address whether or not it was ultimately delivered elsewhere.
So, if you lived near the border with another state;
And you had a friend on the other side of the border;
And the company had no presence in that other state, thus no requirement to collect taxes for that other state;
And you had your order shipped to his address in your name --
Would you then have to pay texas sales tax?
Your argument would also apply to people under 18, all of whom seem to pay sales tax.
Not being adults, their interests are represented by their guardians who, by definition, must be adults and thus can vote.
In both cases the person doing the fixes lost the opportunity to do other work.
Charge for a support contract, that's what everyone does already. You want MS to fix something after your 90 days, you pay. You want Apple to fix something after your 90 days, you pay - its called Applecare.
Next time skip the chest puffing and pay attention to the way the software industry really works.
if millions of home users stampede to emachines discount boxes
Typical home users will do no such thing, they like to have a supported platform.
For get all untrusted computing platform crap - all Apple has to do is say "OSX is only supported on boxes x, y and z" and then only the fringe will go to emachines (or homebrew) and try to run it on non apple hardware.
Apple makes next to nothing on its software sales. In fact, some of its products are sold at a loss. The lion's share of Apple's revenue comes from hardware sales.
Bzzzt! Somebody has bought the copyright cartel's line hook line and sinker.
The only way a company can lose money on [i]additional[/i] software sales is if they sold the software for less than the price of delivery. Software development is a fixed cost. Once it is finished, additional sales are pure profit minus distribution costs.
all the women look like Talia Shire.
Adriaaaaaan!!!!
It's a sign of maturity.
Bullshit.
It is merely a sign of conformity.
It is a sign that you are not good enough at your job that you have to resort to finding justification within the herd instead of within your own abilities.
Sure, not everybody can be so good at what they do that they can ignore the herd. In fact, by definition most people do not have level of ability to stand out from the crowd.
But don't lie to yourself and dress up your conformist behaviour as some sort of higher status when it is really just a way to shield your mediocrity.
Stand out of the crowd by what you do, not what you look like. Anything else is just juvenile.
Stand out from the crowd because your compentency earns you the freedom to live your life your way.
So the leather tank top with the see-through nipple windows is an no-no?
Unless you are nursing, and then it is federally protected.
it is pretty ironic how the supposedly tolerant liberals turn out to be just as exclusionary, prejudiced, and judgmental as the conservatives they ridicule (as opposed to entering an intelligent discourse with) on a daily basis.
I listen to Rush Limbaugh every day. And every day he goes on and on about just that point. But the difference between him and you is that he is the one telling the Big Lie, and you are the one believing it.
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How does adding a digital tuner into the analog tuner package make the original package cheaper?
You are too fucking dense.
I never said a damn thing about making the original package cheaper, only that the new combo package can be cheaper because it is a newer part.
Digital tuners have a negative cost?
They can. When the analog tuner and the digital tuner are integrated into the same chipset.
This is going to hurt America's poor the most.
Yeah, once they get hooked on just how good HDTV looks, their kids will have even less reason to get off the sofa and get some exercise.
Seriously, it is entirely reasonable to think that this requirement will actiually lower the price of televisions due to economies of scale. Once implemented, all tv's 25" and up will have digital tuners which probably means an order of magnitude more combo analog-digital tuner chipsets being produced which should lead to a significant per-unit cost of perduction (amortization of R&D and cheaper component pricing due to bulk purchasing).
Lots of people talking about the possibility of dual-booting windows and osx.
But they are missing a key part of the puzzle - virtualization.
Imagine VMware, SoftPC, etc but running at the full speed of the native hardware with full isolation between running OSes. In a year, that's the way any serious virtualization will work. The hardware assist that Intel's VT and AMD's Pacifica doohickies provide is what it will take to do it.
So, it will be entirely possible to run both OS-X and Windows and Linux simultaneously on the same cpu with no performance hit. Heck, with multi-cores becoming so popular you'll be able to give each OS it's own processor so they can all run in true parallel if that's what you want.
Sure, Intel and AMD are talking like this virutalization stuff is only for servers - but they always say that about the new toys right up to the point when they start releasing it on the consumer-grade systems too.
Why do they need a new system?
Can't Jack Bauer just ask Chloe to, "Open a socket to the main server and retrieve the identity profiles," whenever he needs to?
Reportedly, recent builds of VLC play them just fine too.
You said, "$275 per hour, whatever the profession, should be more than sufficient."
The article said: "Currently, the standard fee is $275 per hour for voice sessions;"
I said, "Either they price themselves out of the market or they don't. So far, they have not."
So... what exactly is your problem?
My problem in this particular case is with AFTRA/SAG claiming that the workers being abused are the voice actors. This simply isn't the case. If AFTRA and SAG operated on principle, then instead of trying to shake down the game developers for cash for the voice actors, they would realize that the programmers, artists, and others working 60+ hours a week for months on end are the ones who need union protection, not necessarily to increase their wages, but to prevent the employers from pushing their workers to such extremes.
That's not SAG's job - they represent theatrical performers.
There are other unions in Hollywood that are more closely aligned with the type of work the software developers do. There is the writer's guild and IATSE which is the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees, Moving Picture Technicians, Artists and Allied Crafts of the United States.
In short, the unions could price themselves right out of the market.
Then what are you bitching about?
Either they price themselves out of the market or they don't.
So far, they have not. You, in your ignorance of the way the business works, have the personal opinion that the voice actors are overpaid.
Clearly, the market disagrees with you.
Olivine is green. See this picture of an isolated, but still somewhat famous, green-sand beach in Hawaii
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It is green because of all the olivine in the sand, been there myself a few times:
http://www.letsgo-hawaii.com/beaches/GreenSand2_b
http://artemis.austincollege.edu/acad/bio/sgoldsm
If there really is that much olivine on the planet, we are going to have change the nickname from "the red planet" to "the christmas planet."
The union is not only artificially propping up wages to levels far beyond what the supply and demand dictate
Ah, so your problem is with the union.
Sounds like you are one of those people who thinks unions are bad, anti-free market creations.
Too bad.