I can't remember the article (or the name of the company), but I read once about a lawn mower company who walked away from Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart wanted them to drop the quality of their mowers to make them cheaper.
I've been using Foxmarks for a few months, and it's really worked very nicely (except right after upgrades for some reason). I want to shift the server updating onto my own server, but haven't gotten around to it.
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(it can be argued that it is just a Gamecube 1.5 with a new controller)
Owning Super Mario Galaxy and having seen Metroid Prime: Corruption, I have a hard time believing that. It's like saying that the 360 is an XBox 1.5 with HD.
If one is distributing the software unmodified, can they not just point requesters to where they got the source from in the first place? It's been a while since I looked at the GPL, but I thought this was the case.
You don't *really* want that old music. You want to get this new fifty dollar Britney Spears box set. You want to go home and rethink your life.
Labels really aren't concerned with what you actually want. They want to tell you what to want and then make you buy it through a system geared toward the label instead of the artist.
And if you increase your sample size, you'll find that even more people probably had about 50 apples. There's a reason they teach the bell curve in statistics classes.
Well, call me idealistic, but then we light up the fiber ourselves; start some sort of co-op, I dunno. Span the US with fiber and Wi-Max. Google has to be planning something with all the fiber they own.
If something like that were to happen, and a 'second internet' spring up independent of the current infrastructure and grow reasonably, then one incumbent will start playing along. After that, they'd start falling like dominoes.
Of course, I'm being ridiculously optimistic about the chances for success of such a project, not to mention the willingness of a group of people to let go of their own money to do it. There's a high initial cost and it would take a long-term commitment to see real results.
But you don't pay for the content. You pay for the connection. It's the advertisers who pay for the content in a broadcast.
You want the content? Get a DVD or other disc. People keep paying for cable and satellite and hope that their complaining will convince the companies to change. When the money is coming in either way, companies have no reason to change.
I suspect that the game simply brings out one's inner jerk as opposed to creating one. Would you rather all these ten-year-old jerks be unleashed on Halo, or would you rather they spend their time on SimCity?
A record label is hardly the only way to promote oneself. Jonathan Coulton makes a decent living by touring and selling downloads on his site. And the vast majority of his music is still available for free on his site if you bother to hunt for it. And he keeps nearly all of the money made during sales (PayPal still takes its cut).
Personally, the feeling of knowing that I was one of the "special few" to pay for everyone else having access to a musician I liked makes me more likely to pay for another album similarly distributed. After having spent money supporting Jonathan Coulton, I'm much more inclined to buy a download of this Radiohead album (though I'd like to listen to it first to see if I'd like it).
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I can't remember the article (or the name of the company), but I read once about a lawn mower company who walked away from Wal-Mart because Wal-Mart wanted them to drop the quality of their mowers to make them cheaper.
Thank you! I was getting diappointed that noone here had heard about such an amazing indie game. :)
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I've been using Foxmarks for a few months, and it's really worked very nicely (except right after upgrades for some reason). I want to shift the server updating onto my own server, but haven't gotten around to it.
Owning Super Mario Galaxy and having seen Metroid Prime: Corruption, I have a hard time believing that. It's like saying that the 360 is an XBox 1.5 with HD.
If one is distributing the software unmodified, can they not just point requesters to where they got the source from in the first place? It's been a while since I looked at the GPL, but I thought this was the case.
God help us. It's growing. Soon, someone will open the Acronymicon and all /. discussion will fall into the obscure non-language of the darkness.
You don't *really* want that old music. You want to get this new fifty dollar Britney Spears box set. You want to go home and rethink your life.
Labels really aren't concerned with what you actually want. They want to tell you what to want and then make you buy it through a system geared toward the label instead of the artist.
Google has some of the top engineers in the country. I suspect they know a thing or two about what they're doing.
Awesome. Thanks!
If you could give a nice reference for the latter, I would greatly appreciate it.
And if you increase your sample size, you'll find that even more people probably had about 50 apples. There's a reason they teach the bell curve in statistics classes.
That's what the search box is for.
Von Neumann arch would probably be more like the natural habitat.
Well, call me idealistic, but then we light up the fiber ourselves; start some sort of co-op, I dunno. Span the US with fiber and Wi-Max. Google has to be planning something with all the fiber they own.
If something like that were to happen, and a 'second internet' spring up independent of the current infrastructure and grow reasonably, then one incumbent will start playing along. After that, they'd start falling like dominoes.
Of course, I'm being ridiculously optimistic about the chances for success of such a project, not to mention the willingness of a group of people to let go of their own money to do it. There's a high initial cost and it would take a long-term commitment to see real results.
Microsoft won't say.
But you don't pay for the content. You pay for the connection. It's the advertisers who pay for the content in a broadcast.
You want the content? Get a DVD or other disc. People keep paying for cable and satellite and hope that their complaining will convince the companies to change. When the money is coming in either way, companies have no reason to change.
Is it physically capable? Yes. Theoretically, there's a group that's working on porting Linux, but they've yet to announce any developments.
I've been tempted to pull out the hard drive and throw an installation on it myself just to see if it works.
Oddly enough, I feel somewhat dirty afterward.
Still has nothing on Daniel Jackson, though.
Did you read the article? Solar panels keep the capacitor charged for five days. After that, you have to manually power it back on.
If I'm not misunderstanding the article (very possible, as it is light on details), the relay only needs power to switch out of standby.
Does that not count?
According to my SC2K box, it'll run on a 486 or better and as low as 66 MHz, for the DOS/Windows version.
I suspect that the game simply brings out one's inner jerk as opposed to creating one. Would you rather all these ten-year-old jerks be unleashed on Halo, or would you rather they spend their time on SimCity?
A record label is hardly the only way to promote oneself. Jonathan Coulton makes a decent living by touring and selling downloads on his site. And the vast majority of his music is still available for free on his site if you bother to hunt for it. And he keeps nearly all of the money made during sales (PayPal still takes its cut).
Personally, the feeling of knowing that I was one of the "special few" to pay for everyone else having access to a musician I liked makes me more likely to pay for another album similarly distributed. After having spent money supporting Jonathan Coulton, I'm much more inclined to buy a download of this Radiohead album (though I'd like to listen to it first to see if I'd like it).