No offense, but expecting mobile users to download several 5MB images to determine whether to buy your trinkets is crazy. Anything larger than 200k is ridiculously large in this day and age.
I never pay retail. The 2015 13" MBP is available on eBay for right around $975...and normally retails for $1400. I only buy from shops with a 30 day money back guarantee. Haven't had a problem yet and I've bought 4 for my employees in the last year. They're gently used (scratches on bottom for instance) but who cares?
I'm not really sure why you think Blue Laws are designed to protect incumbents. Why outlaw sales on certain days when it's much easier to keep existing dealers in power by establishing franchise laws instead?
I have a plex server running on my headless linux server, and I'm not exactly sure that I'd call it a resource hog. I use it to watch TV and movies that I've ripped from BluRay, as well as some downloaded shows. I'm incredibly happy with it. I run it on a machine with a web server, mongodb database, and obviously my sftp server. I never really notice massive performance hits on the machine.
Sync is a bit of a pain to deal with, but once you figure out how it works (it's a 3 step process and the client never tells you what step you're on) it's manageable. I usually queue 4 things to sync, let it run overnight, and in the morning I'm good to go. Online content (Daily Show, Conan, etc.) can sync, but sometimes it's not supported so that's a bit frustrating. Syncing 6 movies to your iPad for a long flight is a huge improvement over the memory cards I was using for my Vita before.
The big thing, which apparently they're finally working on, is that it doesn't support music playlists in the client. I've never seen such a thing. How do you have a music player without playlists? It's my biggest complaint about Plex. But as I said, they're working on it....slowly...should be here by 2020. I'm using the music player that came with my phone in the meantime.
I just bought a brand new Asus Ultrabook and installed gentoo with few if any problems. Lots of documentation on the Arch Linux and Ubuntu sites related to my laptop model were really helpful. The boot was a small pain but really only took a few hours to sort. If you're not willing to spend a few hours sorting something out, Linux on the desktop probably isn't for you anyways. I had it fully up and running in about a week with no tinkering for Suspend/Resume, Touchscreen support, or Audio, which were pain points in the past. I did spend a lot of time on the Intel wireless (I had to download the firmware manually and really it was more learning about Systemd and NetworkManager) and the Intel video chipset because the kernel parameters were customized. Also ACPI support for the backlight and function keys was a bit...messy. Still haven't gotten wireless printing working, and I'm fighting with Plymouth still.
FWIW, I have a linux NAS box I custom built using a Gigabyte motherboard about 3 years ago and had no problems with it either. It did have UEFI, but Windows 8 wasn't out yet so I don't know if that complicates things. More recently I built a couple of LTC miners using MSI motherboards with few problems. Those definitely had UEFI and weren't a big deal. The biggest problem was getting the ATI drivers to like my 4 video cards.
Really, this sounds like the miner's fault for not realizing it earlier. My pools have an app that updates me in realtime what they see as my balance and my hash rate. If you've been re-directed to an invalid pool, you'd think your hash rate and earnings would drop to 0 over time and you'd pick up on that and try to correct the issue. I would probably notice within 15 minutes if this happened.
I've flown a few times since the ban was lifted. Airlines are pretty clear during the stewardess briefings what is allowed and not allowed. You can use your phone but only in airplane mode. They've updated their safety videos to include it as well in some cases.
The international flights are fun as some countries haven't lifted the ban so you never know what they're going to do. The ones I've flown don't allow it when taking off in another country, but do allow it when taking off in the US.
While I agree in principle that publisher's are a bit superfluous to the publishing equation, acting solely as a middle man, you did leave out one major point regarding their value add. They provide substantial marketing muscle that it's not clear Amazon would provide to an individual author alone. They arrange book and media tours as well, especially for up and coming authors. Established authors obviously have their own agents or PR people who could help with this, but new authors have neither the resources nor the experience to participate in this critical marketing tool.
As a corollary - look at the Apple or Android app stores. Obviously the larger apps have marketing muscle behind them (in the form of publishers, of course), but the day that the individual could make a lot of money is few and far between. I would argue that the window for indie developer success lasted about 6 months after the app store launched. After that, you were just one person shouting in a crowd and had no chance to break even without marketing saavy or dumb luck.
You don't get anything with basic cable these days. Most sports channels and the decent cable channels require a premium subscription. I looked at DirectTV, Dish, and Verizon before cutting the cord completely. There was no way I could keep my wife and my favorite channels like ESPN 2, NBC Sports, Bravo, etc. without spending a minimum of $70 just for the cable alone, not including boxes and remotes which they charge extra for.
Agreed - I was paying a $200 cable/internet/phone/HBO bill a few months ago and my wife and I decided to cut costs. We got rid of cable, the whole-house DVR, and the phone and now just have the internet and Hulu and Netflix. Add in 3 chromecasts and converting my NAS to a plex server, and that dropped our monthly bill to $75, and we still get all of our shows except my wife's Bravo and my sports, which I've found various shady ways of watching on my own with no problem. It's been great, and I'd gladly pay $10 a month to keep watching their original series and movies.
I figure the only way to change the way we watch TV is for people to keep cutting the cord and forcing the broadcasters to adapt.
You cant call for a yellow cab in NYC, unless they come from a large private garage. But no one I know has ever done it.
This app wont work well in Manhattan anyways, since there are so many cabs. And in the outer boroughs, most people know which street to go to to hail a cab trying to go back to Manhattan.
I thought it was clear? Maybe missing the word TV?
However, the Justice Department rejected the agreement between the two groups to allow Verizon to market cable services in its stores in markets where it also offers FIOS service
You buy electronics at crackhead prices, don't be surprised if you get burned. About as dumb as people who download hacking binaries.
TFA doesn't mention the age of type of laptop. I sold my 7 year old Dell Inspiron on eBay for $100, originally purchased for $1600. It worked just fine, except I had Linux on it and they were going to install Windows. We don't have enough details here to make a judgement either way. If it was brand new, the I say she should have used her judgement. But a few years old, then you never really know. This was a school library laptop, so it really could go either way.
Why, in that case, did they not defend their name against he previous owners of the cloud domain ?
I have the same exact situation with my own company. I own the.net analogue of my company's name, and someone owns the.com. They've owned the.com for several years, and have a 10-year registration according to GoDaddy. The site currently doesn't do anything - it doesn't resolve at all.
The best thing to do in this case is not to approach the person, but establish yourself and make the name worth something. Then, the cybersquatter will attempt to monetize the name and hopefully do something which can be used in a UDRP claim against them, like setting up an advert site or something.
In any case, it appears the trademark was owned by someone else and maybe iCloud didn't want to pay up. You can't go based on domain names at all - you have to use established business use as the guideline.
I personally make around $35k as a young single person with no debt, and feel rich, fwiw. I can't even spend it all--- after $1k/month on rent for a nice apt near the beach, and another $1k on food/car/entertainment, my expenses are pretty much covered.
Unless you have paid the car off in full and don't lease or have a car payment, I don't see how this doesn't qualify as debt.
Which is great for about 6 months...until they release the next version of OS X (or maybe iOS?).
So now, for my mac mini I'd have to install Leopard from scratch, then re-install Snow Leopard over it.
Either way you cut it, re-installing the OS is a pain in the neck. On Windows, it's a once-a-year activity at the very least. On Linux and Mac, I haven't found it necessary thanks to portage on Gentoo and Mac staying pretty stable for the most part, outside of the latest forced upgrade due to the XCode release.
As an iPhone developer, I can tell you the majority of streaming radio apps on mobile phones are listening to Shoutcast servers. That's where most of the money lies for AOL/Nullsoft in Shoutcast. The protocol is very simple and similar to HTTP so the iPhone OS supports it (sort of) out of the box, and some of the more advanced features (like in-stream song names) can be taken advantage of by manipulating the HTTP headers.
I know it's Slashdot, but I'm assuming you're not from New York. Per the article's link, the bill was introduced on March 3rd, so if this gets passed by 2015 we'll be lucky. This is the same state that's rebuilding the World Trade Center and swears it'll be done in time for the 10th year anniversary - in 2011. Did we mention they started in 2002?
I dropped $700 on Mini and love it. The way I see it, the $700 is going to be easy to get back if you develop a decent app and charge a reasonable price. Even crappy apps on the iTunes Store make at least a few grand - more than enough to pay for the mini.
Also, it took me maybe a month to get comfortable with Objective-C and the iphone SDK. Any programmer worth his salt should be able to pick the language up and run with it, especially anyone familiar with the Java Swing and the Java2D Graphics API. They're very similar - hell all graphics APIs are pretty similar when you get down to it.
Basically, if all you can code is HTML and VB, then mobile phone development is not for you, including Palm, Apple, Google, whathaveyou. The smart developer is the one who learns all three and ports apps across platform to get the most exposure. That's my ultimate plan. If Android and Palm take off, then in my opinion that's only better for small developers like me who just want to play and make a little money on the side.
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No offense, but expecting mobile users to download several 5MB images to determine whether to buy your trinkets is crazy. Anything larger than 200k is ridiculously large in this day and age.
I never pay retail. The 2015 13" MBP is available on eBay for right around $975...and normally retails for $1400. I only buy from shops with a 30 day money back guarantee. Haven't had a problem yet and I've bought 4 for my employees in the last year. They're gently used (scratches on bottom for instance) but who cares?
I'm on mobile, and there is no link I can see next to the headline. This is the first article I've seen like this in...ever?
In my experience, employers needs != employers preference.
I'm not really sure why you think Blue Laws are designed to protect incumbents. Why outlaw sales on certain days when it's much easier to keep existing dealers in power by establishing franchise laws instead?
I have a plex server running on my headless linux server, and I'm not exactly sure that I'd call it a resource hog. I use it to watch TV and movies that I've ripped from BluRay, as well as some downloaded shows. I'm incredibly happy with it. I run it on a machine with a web server, mongodb database, and obviously my sftp server. I never really notice massive performance hits on the machine.
Sync is a bit of a pain to deal with, but once you figure out how it works (it's a 3 step process and the client never tells you what step you're on) it's manageable. I usually queue 4 things to sync, let it run overnight, and in the morning I'm good to go. Online content (Daily Show, Conan, etc.) can sync, but sometimes it's not supported so that's a bit frustrating. Syncing 6 movies to your iPad for a long flight is a huge improvement over the memory cards I was using for my Vita before.
The big thing, which apparently they're finally working on, is that it doesn't support music playlists in the client. I've never seen such a thing. How do you have a music player without playlists? It's my biggest complaint about Plex. But as I said, they're working on it....slowly...should be here by 2020. I'm using the music player that came with my phone in the meantime.
You may now feel less pissed.
https://code.google.com/p/chro...
Maybe I missed it, but what does re-adding ext2/3/4 support to chrome OS have to do with SD Card support on Android?
I just bought a brand new Asus Ultrabook and installed gentoo with few if any problems. Lots of documentation on the Arch Linux and Ubuntu sites related to my laptop model were really helpful. The boot was a small pain but really only took a few hours to sort. If you're not willing to spend a few hours sorting something out, Linux on the desktop probably isn't for you anyways. I had it fully up and running in about a week with no tinkering for Suspend/Resume, Touchscreen support, or Audio, which were pain points in the past. I did spend a lot of time on the Intel wireless (I had to download the firmware manually and really it was more learning about Systemd and NetworkManager) and the Intel video chipset because the kernel parameters were customized. Also ACPI support for the backlight and function keys was a bit...messy. Still haven't gotten wireless printing working, and I'm fighting with Plymouth still.
FWIW, I have a linux NAS box I custom built using a Gigabyte motherboard about 3 years ago and had no problems with it either. It did have UEFI, but Windows 8 wasn't out yet so I don't know if that complicates things. More recently I built a couple of LTC miners using MSI motherboards with few problems. Those definitely had UEFI and weren't a big deal. The biggest problem was getting the ATI drivers to like my 4 video cards.
Really, this sounds like the miner's fault for not realizing it earlier. My pools have an app that updates me in realtime what they see as my balance and my hash rate. If you've been re-directed to an invalid pool, you'd think your hash rate and earnings would drop to 0 over time and you'd pick up on that and try to correct the issue. I would probably notice within 15 minutes if this happened.
I know Quicktime is a little long in the tooth, but I didn't know it was THAT old.
I've flown a few times since the ban was lifted. Airlines are pretty clear during the stewardess briefings what is allowed and not allowed. You can use your phone but only in airplane mode. They've updated their safety videos to include it as well in some cases.
The international flights are fun as some countries haven't lifted the ban so you never know what they're going to do. The ones I've flown don't allow it when taking off in another country, but do allow it when taking off in the US.
While I agree in principle that publisher's are a bit superfluous to the publishing equation, acting solely as a middle man, you did leave out one major point regarding their value add. They provide substantial marketing muscle that it's not clear Amazon would provide to an individual author alone. They arrange book and media tours as well, especially for up and coming authors. Established authors obviously have their own agents or PR people who could help with this, but new authors have neither the resources nor the experience to participate in this critical marketing tool.
As a corollary - look at the Apple or Android app stores. Obviously the larger apps have marketing muscle behind them (in the form of publishers, of course), but the day that the individual could make a lot of money is few and far between. I would argue that the window for indie developer success lasted about 6 months after the app store launched. After that, you were just one person shouting in a crowd and had no chance to break even without marketing saavy or dumb luck.
You don't get anything with basic cable these days. Most sports channels and the decent cable channels require a premium subscription. I looked at DirectTV, Dish, and Verizon before cutting the cord completely. There was no way I could keep my wife and my favorite channels like ESPN 2, NBC Sports, Bravo, etc. without spending a minimum of $70 just for the cable alone, not including boxes and remotes which they charge extra for.
Agreed - I was paying a $200 cable/internet/phone/HBO bill a few months ago and my wife and I decided to cut costs. We got rid of cable, the whole-house DVR, and the phone and now just have the internet and Hulu and Netflix. Add in 3 chromecasts and converting my NAS to a plex server, and that dropped our monthly bill to $75, and we still get all of our shows except my wife's Bravo and my sports, which I've found various shady ways of watching on my own with no problem. It's been great, and I'd gladly pay $10 a month to keep watching their original series and movies.
I figure the only way to change the way we watch TV is for people to keep cutting the cord and forcing the broadcasters to adapt.
You cant call for a yellow cab in NYC, unless they come from a large private garage. But no one I know has ever done it.
This app wont work well in Manhattan anyways, since there are so many cabs. And in the outer boroughs, most people know which street to go to to hail a cab trying to go back to Manhattan.
I thought it was clear? Maybe missing the word TV?
In Hoboken, you can park for $5. There's no way you can park for 10 minutes in Manhattan for $5.
You buy electronics at crackhead prices, don't be surprised if you get burned. About as dumb as people who download hacking binaries.
TFA doesn't mention the age of type of laptop. I sold my 7 year old Dell Inspiron on eBay for $100, originally purchased for $1600. It worked just fine, except I had Linux on it and they were going to install Windows. We don't have enough details here to make a judgement either way. If it was brand new, the I say she should have used her judgement. But a few years old, then you never really know. This was a school library laptop, so it really could go either way.
Why, in that case, did they not defend their name against he previous owners of the cloud domain ?
I have the same exact situation with my own company. I own the .net analogue of my company's name, and someone owns the .com. They've owned the .com for several years, and have a 10-year registration according to GoDaddy. The site currently doesn't do anything - it doesn't resolve at all.
The best thing to do in this case is not to approach the person, but establish yourself and make the name worth something. Then, the cybersquatter will attempt to monetize the name and hopefully do something which can be used in a UDRP claim against them, like setting up an advert site or something.
In any case, it appears the trademark was owned by someone else and maybe iCloud didn't want to pay up. You can't go based on domain names at all - you have to use established business use as the guideline.
I personally make around $35k as a young single person with no debt, and feel rich, fwiw. I can't even spend it all--- after $1k/month on rent for a nice apt near the beach, and another $1k on food/car/entertainment, my expenses are pretty much covered.
Unless you have paid the car off in full and don't lease or have a car payment, I don't see how this doesn't qualify as debt.
Which is great for about 6 months...until they release the next version of OS X (or maybe iOS?).
So now, for my mac mini I'd have to install Leopard from scratch, then re-install Snow Leopard over it.
Either way you cut it, re-installing the OS is a pain in the neck. On Windows, it's a once-a-year activity at the very least. On Linux and Mac, I haven't found it necessary thanks to portage on Gentoo and Mac staying pretty stable for the most part, outside of the latest forced upgrade due to the XCode release.
Whatever pays the bills. Not everyone can invent iFart or iVuvuzela.
As an iPhone developer, I can tell you the majority of streaming radio apps on mobile phones are listening to Shoutcast servers. That's where most of the money lies for AOL/Nullsoft in Shoutcast. The protocol is very simple and similar to HTTP so the iPhone OS supports it (sort of) out of the box, and some of the more advanced features (like in-stream song names) can be taken advantage of by manipulating the HTTP headers.
I know it's Slashdot, but I'm assuming you're not from New York. Per the article's link, the bill was introduced on March 3rd, so if this gets passed by 2015 we'll be lucky. This is the same state that's rebuilding the World Trade Center and swears it'll be done in time for the 10th year anniversary - in 2011. Did we mention they started in 2002?
I dropped $700 on Mini and love it. The way I see it, the $700 is going to be easy to get back if you develop a decent app and charge a reasonable price. Even crappy apps on the iTunes Store make at least a few grand - more than enough to pay for the mini.
Also, it took me maybe a month to get comfortable with Objective-C and the iphone SDK. Any programmer worth his salt should be able to pick the language up and run with it, especially anyone familiar with the Java Swing and the Java2D Graphics API. They're very similar - hell all graphics APIs are pretty similar when you get down to it.
Basically, if all you can code is HTML and VB, then mobile phone development is not for you, including Palm, Apple, Google, whathaveyou. The smart developer is the one who learns all three and ports apps across platform to get the most exposure. That's my ultimate plan. If Android and Palm take off, then in my opinion that's only better for small developers like me who just want to play and make a little money on the side.