So you're saying a lot goes to the middle men. Right. Well, an average musician can't run a web site and sell and promote their own music online. That's ridiculously difficult right now.
Well, how about somebody write some very simple, very easy php modules that musicians can get their ISP's to install for them so that they can sell directly? Smart ISP owners then add that to their list of standard modules.
It's a phone. It plays some music files. It browses the web. Whoop-de-doo. There's nothing revolutionary about the iPhone, other than the marketing. I'm sick of seeing these damn stories, and I wish the damn Slashdot editors would read the damn comments. GEEKS DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE IPHONE.
I call bullshit. Yes, theoretically, that's the way it SHOULD work. I've tried Linux dozens of times on many different machines, and I've never ONCE had everything work the way it should. It's like installing Windows 10 years ago.
I try Linux every 6 months or so. And yes, last time I tried it, it needed excessive babying at a command prompt just to get it working. And yesterday, I had to do quite a bit of command line stuff with a FreeBSD system. So yes, I absolutely think that shell knowledge is necessary for Linux, which is why I'm shocked that this guy is forcing his 5 year old to do that. It's kinda' sick. But then again, if I had kids, I'd teach my 5 year old to rebuild carburetors.
Shouldn't your 5 year old be playing outside, instead of learning obscure Linux commands? I mean, I'm not a parent, but that seems kind of a twisted thing for a 5 year old to be doing.
"hard to use" because it is not what you are used to maybe? Linux may not be for everyone- but i wouldn't categorize it as any harder to use than windows.
Jeez, I feel like this is software development 101...
There are errors and problems that occur in programs that do not cause the entire thing to crash. Those are useful, as well.
And yes, if you'd like to opt out of error reporting, please do so (it's easy to do... follow the instructions that another poster gave you). But why would they want you to opt out? A program shouldn't crash *ever*, no matter what "wierd" stuff you do to it.
Besides, Windows is essentially subscription based now. You pay when you get a new machine or buy a copy of Windows. I really don't care if I have to pay $20/year/machine for an OS, or if I pay $100/machine when I buy them. 6 of one, half dozen of another. Put your tinfoil cap back on.
Actually, I'd say that Linux sounds like a piss-poor manager. With management like this, I'm not surprised that Linux is still playing catch up, 10+ years into it.
Either that, or they're just using their pool of hundreds of millions of users with tens of millions different hardware/software configurations in order to collect bug data.
That's really the most obvious and the most likely answer.
The overarching problem with the human race is simple overpopulation (not enough food, not enough medicine, not enough energy, not enough fresh water, etc.).
If the human species doesn't wise up and voluntarily stop the population growth, some "force of nature" will take care of things. I'm leaning towards either a massive anti-biotic resistant bacteria outbreak, or simple and stupid war.
Either way, things aren't dire for the planet or even the species. Things may be dire for a lot of individuals, though.
You can say that every single day and still be right. I'm a big fan of buying PC's from my local thrift stores for $20 each. PC's are, by themselves, probably the worst investment that I can think of. Not even American cars depreciate as fast as PC's. I always tell people that unless you're playing games on a PC (which is an insanely expensive hobby), or doing something important, just get the cheapest thing you can find.
I'm sorry to say, but you haven't got the foggiest idea about what you're talking about when it comes to business. I simply don't have the time to explain everything you have wrong. You don't understand branding. You don't understand wholesaler/manufacturer/relationships at all. You don't understand competition.
It's branding. I'd bet money that if this same test were run with people who've never used the Web before, that you'd get the exact same results, if the sample sizes were large enough.
1-4 happens every day. Consumers don't see it. And there will always be people selling questionable merchandise out of their basements. There's no way to stop that. It's called "EBay".
But by and large, manufacturers put a price base on their product so that it is not commoditized, and so that they can maintain their brand/reputation. There are a lot of repercussions for the manufacturer of having a significant portion of sales that are not part of the standard supply chain, whatever that may be.
5-9 only happens if two products are perfect substitutes for each other, which arguably, doesn't really happen all that often. Smart companies innovate and differentiate, even if it's only done with marketing. Look at Apple. There are much better, cheaper music players out there, but the iPod is still far and away the best seller.
Those companies who do sell commodity items are already competing on price and volume, so they want a widely spread out supply chain, so it doesn't matter.
This ruling won't effect much. While "price floors" have been illegal, manufacturers have simply refused to sell to those retailers/distributors. This ruling will just seal up some of the holes so that companies can get to those retailers/distributors who get their hands on the product (legally or illegally) in a way that the company can't control. Manufacturers will be able to contacts retailers/distributors directly and say, "We don't know how you got these "Widget" brand widgets, but it doesn't matter any more. If you continue to sell "Widget" brand widgets at prices below what we demand, then we will sue you."
So it'll shut down some basement retailing operations that don't provide any product service and support. Big deal.
Geeks will be upset that they can't buy a brand new Cisco Super-Shoopy Router any more at that price from the random web site but only because they already know how to use the Cisco Super-Shoopy Router and/or want to hack around with it. Most people will want to buy their Cisco Super-Shoopy Router from a real retailer anyway, which is why the manufacturers want price floors in the first place. Somebody who doesn't know better and buys a Cisco Super-Shoopy Router from generic web site, gets it home, finds it's missing a large part, now thinks that Cisco sucks, and has the wrong impression of the company and its' products.
So, by and large, there won't be very much real world blowback at all from this ruling.
Wal-Mart only deals with a few, very low end consumer goods. Besides, only very smart of very stupid companies deal with Wal-Mart. (Hint: The ones that get their backs broken are the stupid ones).
They're not competing with Dell and HP. They'd be competing with APPLE. They could sell hardware AND software, but without the Apple lock-in, and (hopefully), without the Apple price. If they can keep the quality up (like they do with their keyboard and mice), they should do well.
Nobody wants to be in Dell's position. Dell has a very precarious business (tiny margins and very dependent on just a few vendors). HP is just a mess these days, so I can't even guess what their core competencies are any more.
Who cares? They're bloggers. If you want news, go to a journalist. If you want stream-of-consciousness from some random person, go to a blogger. Smart people do not get credible information from blogs.
You're talking about a bad workaround, in violation of the Gmail terms of use. MS actually might get to free online storage before Google. It's obvious they're playing catch up, but if they can do it, it'll still be big among the rest of the population that are not Slashdot freaks.
The systems that have been in place for many years work just fine... they're called "Sneaker Nets". Even in a warehouse, if the data or the connectivity is important, Wi-Fi is a bad idea. In warehouses, people typically use handheld devices, today. They're much, much, much more reliable than wi-fi.
And to think that Yahoo's music service (Launch) is working just as well as always, today. I had no idea that there was any kind of boycott going on. I have Launchcast streaming all day, every day. Too bad Yahoo wasn't involved.
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Would appreciate the Slashdot community's take on the validity of Mr. Linares's 'science.'
What the hell is that? That's not even a sentence. It's not even a complete idea! What in the hell?
So you're saying a lot goes to the middle men. Right. Well, an average musician can't run a web site and sell and promote their own music online. That's ridiculously difficult right now.
Well, how about somebody write some very simple, very easy php modules that musicians can get their ISP's to install for them so that they can sell directly? Smart ISP owners then add that to their list of standard modules.
Duh.
It's a phone. It plays some music files. It browses the web. Whoop-de-doo. There's nothing revolutionary about the iPhone, other than the marketing. I'm sick of seeing these damn stories, and I wish the damn Slashdot editors would read the damn comments. GEEKS DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE IPHONE.
I call bullshit. Yes, theoretically, that's the way it SHOULD work. I've tried Linux dozens of times on many different machines, and I've never ONCE had everything work the way it should. It's like installing Windows 10 years ago.
I don't participate in beta testing programs without being compensated for my time and resources.
Wow. Snooty. What software do you use that's perfect?
I try Linux every 6 months or so. And yes, last time I tried it, it needed excessive babying at a command prompt just to get it working. And yesterday, I had to do quite a bit of command line stuff with a FreeBSD system. So yes, I absolutely think that shell knowledge is necessary for Linux, which is why I'm shocked that this guy is forcing his 5 year old to do that. It's kinda' sick. But then again, if I had kids, I'd teach my 5 year old to rebuild carburetors.
Shouldn't your 5 year old be playing outside, instead of learning obscure Linux commands? I mean, I'm not a parent, but that seems kind of a twisted thing for a 5 year old to be doing.
"hard to use" because it is not what you are used to maybe? Linux may not be for everyone- but i wouldn't categorize it as any harder to use than windows.
Suuure. Just keep telling yourself that.
How is that relevant as to whether or not Linus is a decent manager?
C'mon. That was a pretty weak troll.
Jeez, I feel like this is software development 101...
There are errors and problems that occur in programs that do not cause the entire thing to crash. Those are useful, as well.
And yes, if you'd like to opt out of error reporting, please do so (it's easy to do... follow the instructions that another poster gave you). But why would they want you to opt out? A program shouldn't crash *ever*, no matter what "wierd" stuff you do to it.
Besides, Windows is essentially subscription based now. You pay when you get a new machine or buy a copy of Windows. I really don't care if I have to pay $20/year/machine for an OS, or if I pay $100/machine when I buy them. 6 of one, half dozen of another. Put your tinfoil cap back on.
they just need to learn from Linus.
Actually, I'd say that Linux sounds like a piss-poor manager. With management like this, I'm not surprised that Linux is still playing catch up, 10+ years into it.
Microsoft is stepping over some big lines here.
Either that, or they're just using their pool of hundreds of millions of users with tens of millions different hardware/software configurations in order to collect bug data.
That's really the most obvious and the most likely answer.
The overarching problem with the human race is simple overpopulation (not enough food, not enough medicine, not enough energy, not enough fresh water, etc.).
If the human species doesn't wise up and voluntarily stop the population growth, some "force of nature" will take care of things. I'm leaning towards either a massive anti-biotic resistant bacteria outbreak, or simple and stupid war.
Either way, things aren't dire for the planet or even the species. Things may be dire for a lot of individuals, though.
You can say that every single day and still be right. I'm a big fan of buying PC's from my local thrift stores for $20 each. PC's are, by themselves, probably the worst investment that I can think of. Not even American cars depreciate as fast as PC's. I always tell people that unless you're playing games on a PC (which is an insanely expensive hobby), or doing something important, just get the cheapest thing you can find.
I'm sorry to say, but you haven't got the foggiest idea about what you're talking about when it comes to business. I simply don't have the time to explain everything you have wrong. You don't understand branding. You don't understand wholesaler/manufacturer/relationships at all. You don't understand competition.
Sorry.
It's branding. I'd bet money that if this same test were run with people who've never used the Web before, that you'd get the exact same results, if the sample sizes were large enough.
1-4 happens every day. Consumers don't see it. And there will always be people selling questionable merchandise out of their basements. There's no way to stop that. It's called "EBay".
But by and large, manufacturers put a price base on their product so that it is not commoditized, and so that they can maintain their brand/reputation. There are a lot of repercussions for the manufacturer of having a significant portion of sales that are not part of the standard supply chain, whatever that may be.
5-9 only happens if two products are perfect substitutes for each other, which arguably, doesn't really happen all that often. Smart companies innovate and differentiate, even if it's only done with marketing. Look at Apple. There are much better, cheaper music players out there, but the iPod is still far and away the best seller.
Those companies who do sell commodity items are already competing on price and volume, so they want a widely spread out supply chain, so it doesn't matter.
This ruling won't effect much. While "price floors" have been illegal, manufacturers have simply refused to sell to those retailers/distributors. This ruling will just seal up some of the holes so that companies can get to those retailers/distributors who get their hands on the product (legally or illegally) in a way that the company can't control. Manufacturers will be able to contacts retailers/distributors directly and say, "We don't know how you got these "Widget" brand widgets, but it doesn't matter any more. If you continue to sell "Widget" brand widgets at prices below what we demand, then we will sue you."
So it'll shut down some basement retailing operations that don't provide any product service and support. Big deal.
Geeks will be upset that they can't buy a brand new Cisco Super-Shoopy Router any more at that price from the random web site but only because they already know how to use the Cisco Super-Shoopy Router and/or want to hack around with it. Most people will want to buy their Cisco Super-Shoopy Router from a real retailer anyway, which is why the manufacturers want price floors in the first place. Somebody who doesn't know better and buys a Cisco Super-Shoopy Router from generic web site, gets it home, finds it's missing a large part, now thinks that Cisco sucks, and has the wrong impression of the company and its' products.
So, by and large, there won't be very much real world blowback at all from this ruling.
Wal-Mart only deals with a few, very low end consumer goods. Besides, only very smart of very stupid companies deal with Wal-Mart. (Hint: The ones that get their backs broken are the stupid ones).
They're not competing with Dell and HP. They'd be competing with APPLE. They could sell hardware AND software, but without the Apple lock-in, and (hopefully), without the Apple price. If they can keep the quality up (like they do with their keyboard and mice), they should do well.
Nobody wants to be in Dell's position. Dell has a very precarious business (tiny margins and very dependent on just a few vendors). HP is just a mess these days, so I can't even guess what their core competencies are any more.
Have you actually read what these bloggers wrote?
Who cares? They're bloggers. If you want news, go to a journalist. If you want stream-of-consciousness from some random person, go to a blogger. Smart people do not get credible information from blogs.
You're talking about a bad workaround, in violation of the Gmail terms of use. MS actually might get to free online storage before Google. It's obvious they're playing catch up, but if they can do it, it'll still be big among the rest of the population that are not Slashdot freaks.
Is there any way we could contact our regular Radio & Local News stations and raise awareness of this issue?
Yeah. Contact your local radio stations
Must be the free users, only.
Well, that's good then. Glad people will see it. I'm also glad that they didn't interrupt my subscription service. Yahoo handled that well.
The systems that have been in place for many years work just fine... they're called "Sneaker Nets". Even in a warehouse, if the data or the connectivity is important, Wi-Fi is a bad idea. In warehouses, people typically use handheld devices, today. They're much, much, much more reliable than wi-fi.
And to think that Yahoo's music service (Launch) is working just as well as always, today. I had no idea that there was any kind of boycott going on. I have Launchcast streaming all day, every day. Too bad Yahoo wasn't involved.