What's wrong is that nearly all new games cost 70$. There should be more diversification.
Some (high-produciton--value) game might be worth such a price, but a lot other (niche) games not.
The question is why free market economy does not seem to work here?
Since when is gaining market share an objective of open source projects like Mozilla?
In other words: Who gains anything by increasing the Mozilla marketshare?
Personally I don't give a f#$% what browser other people use, although I advise Firefox to anyone...
As long as M$IE is around (as a non standards compiant browser), webdevelopers keep on spilling time working around annoyances.
I think every traveller to the US will have to sign a document that allows the Flight Company to pass your personal data to the US (a.k.a. selling your soul). You don't sign the document? You don't get on the flight.
Result: terrorists fly to mexico and walk into the US.
This has nothing to do with P2P. If you sell out with $100 ticket price. next time ask $125. Still sell out? Raise the price more, etc. Simple economics. But hey, it's always good to bash P2P...
If invented (no patents) a word for this: Suitification.
It starts with a useful tool. Company creates some other, less useful tools. New tools don't sell. Company creates a Suite, which bundles all tools, and takes advantage of them working closely together (excusez marketing-droid language). And the original tool is an unusable monster.
Examples? Too many... ACDSee, Winamp, Norton utilities, MS-Office...
How can one ever count the defects/bugs per line? And why count them, and then not remove them? And one huge defect is better than more than one small ones?
Sounds like a crappy research to me, time to RTFA.
My guess that this shotage is on purpose. M$ may be evil, they are not dumb. The shortage has probably more positive effects (on M$) than negative. Things like this:
Sounds great: Shortage in 360's continue! Or imagine the opposite: plenty of 360's that nobody wants... that's bad marketing!
1st round buyer are cheap 'testers'. Think of the overheating and disc scratch problems. M$ only has to handle few garantee-cases in return of free testing.
the abundance of quality games is less noticed.
The succes of the 360 can't be measured by it's salesnumbers when they is a product shortage.
My company designs information products (e.g. manuals, helpfiles, elearning) and uses XML for storing documentation. We store small snippets of information (paragraphs) in an XML database. And compile the snippets to documents and publish this document in any format (e.g. HTML, PDF, CHM).
We're using XML because you can separate content from layout.
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These crashed are propably on machines that weren't updated with the latest XBox360 Security Updates. Or maybe it were machines that infected with Sony's DRM?
We develop documentation (manual, onlinehelp, etc.) and develop our content modular in XML, and publish it to different output formats (PDF, HTML, CHM, etc).
In this case XML is an excellent format for storing content.
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If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by statistical methods.
What's wrong is that nearly all new games cost 70$. There should be more diversification. Some (high-produciton--value) game might be worth such a price, but a lot other (niche) games not. The question is why free market economy does not seem to work here?
"computer software and physical hardware"
How about het NON-computer software and NON-physical hardware?
So now I can legally format my harddrive?
Since when is gaining market share an objective of open source projects like Mozilla? In other words: Who gains anything by increasing the Mozilla marketshare? Personally I don't give a f#$% what browser other people use, although I advise Firefox to anyone... As long as M$IE is around (as a non standards compiant browser), webdevelopers keep on spilling time working around annoyances.
Maybe they should start moving towards a graphical interface, then they're only 12 years behind of Microsoft and 20 behind Apple...
It's being released because MS Vista is taking the throne of the vaporware-kingdom.
I think every traveller to the US will have to sign a document that allows the Flight Company to pass your personal data to the US (a.k.a. selling your soul).
You don't sign the document? You don't get on the flight.
Result: terrorists fly to mexico and walk into the US.
Sorry, I'll have to make it:
"allows customers to have a fully featured PC at home"
So Microsoft is going to use Ubuntu for this?
This has nothing to do with P2P. If you sell out with $100 ticket price. next time ask $125. Still sell out? Raise the price more, etc. Simple economics.
But hey, it's always good to bash P2P...
Does Goatse.cx count as porn? As I see it it's more sport and art than porn...
I hope the RIAA din't sue me for citing Steve Miller... I'm a joker I'm a smoker I'm a midnight toker I sure don't wanna hurt no one
If invented (no patents) a word for this: Suitification.
It starts with a useful tool. Company creates some other, less useful tools. New tools don't sell. Company creates a Suite, which bundles all tools, and takes advantage of them working closely together (excusez marketing-droid language). And the original tool is an unusable monster.
Examples? Too many... ACDSee, Winamp, Norton utilities, MS-Office...
How can one ever count the defects/bugs per line?
And why count them, and then not remove them?
And one huge defect is better than more than one small ones?
Sounds like a crappy research to me, time to RTFA.
You're having GW Bush as a president! Why complain about elections and revote...?
Duke Nukem, forever in production.
Or imagine the opposite: plenty of 360's that nobody wants... that's bad marketing!
"Elder Scrolls IV Will Fit On One Disc"
The question is: will xbox360 be able to rad that disc?
After releasing Win3, 95, me, NT, 2000, XT and almost finishing Vista hiring a GUI expert... jeez... next year they'll hire e senior programmer?
I think we're one step closer to Miscrosoft paying us to use their search engine...
One small step for a man, but one giant step for mankind!
Where are those modchipmakers? the lazy #$^%-ers
Mr. Gates? Is that you?
My company designs information products (e.g. manuals, helpfiles, elearning) and uses XML for storing documentation. We store small snippets of information (paragraphs) in an XML database. And compile the snippets to documents and publish this document in any format (e.g. HTML, PDF, CHM). We're using XML because you can separate content from layout.
Shameless ad: http://www.axis.nl/informatie-ontwerpers/english/
These crashed are propably on machines that weren't updated with the latest XBox360 Security Updates. Or maybe it were machines that infected with Sony's DRM?
We develop documentation (manual, onlinehelp, etc.) and develop our content modular in XML, and publish it to different output formats (PDF, HTML, CHM, etc). In this case XML is an excellent format for storing content.