"Banking industry executives say that credit card processors typically pay MasterCard and Visa a fee of 30 cents and 1.95 percent for every purchase"
So google is 0.05% more expensive but 10 cents cheaper per purchase. To be a nerd, Google will be more expensive when
Price * 0.0005 > $0.10 so Price > $200. But even then we are talking a difference of pennies.
So Google is about there or maybe even a little cheaper or expensive depending on purchase price.
"The goal here is to make it be one nanosecond from the time the customer decides to buy to the time the transaction is complete and the product is on the way," Mr. Schmidt said.
Apu: I have come to make amends, sir. At first, I blamed you for
squealing, but then I realized, it was _I_ who wronged _you_. So
I have come to work off my debt. I am at your service.
Homer: You're...selling _what_, now?
Apu: I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
Homer: You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the
cosmos. [slams the door]
This copyright action arises from a termination notice sent
by the appellant to the appellee, seeking to recapture rights to
various characters created by her grandfather, Alan Alexander
Milne, who authored the "Winnie-the-Pooh" children's books.
Milne originally granted various rights in those works to the
appellee in 1930. Then, in 1983, due to a change in copyright
law in 1976, Milne's heirs considered terminating the 1930
grant outright, but instead entered into a new agreement that
revoked the original grant and re-issued rights in the works to
the appellee. The appellant seeks to invalidate the 1983 agreement
based on 1998 legislation. The 1998 legislation only
authorizes the termination of copyright agreements executed
before 1978. Because the 1983 revocation and re-grant were
valid, we affirm the district court's decision.
Actually, one can argue that the only reason why DX is successful isbecause of its submissions, or should I say acquisitions. Microsoft joined OpenGL ARB and all they did was stall the OpenGL with threats of patent infringement. That's all that was needed for them to take the lead. Any graphics developer will tell you what a fine API DirectX is.
He also has some responses to some of the posts there
"I thought I'd respond to some of the comments I found most interesting here on my blog. Call me crazy but it seems safer than visiting slashdot personally:)"
% Homer finds the CPU and chops of the cover, and starts removing cards.
Don't take out my British charm unit! Without that, I'm nothing but a boorish
American clod! [the unit is removed] Ah, thanks a lot, asswipe! [losing
power] I coulda kicked your butt from here to Albuquerque, you fat... slime... bucket.
-- Ultrahouse, "Treehouse of Horror XII"
I would fall for that, but then again, I don't see any cameras following me around and sound amplifiers recording every word I say and then sending salesmen offering me shit. It would be interesting though: "You have just been dumped! Now you can buy this penis enlargement system for half off!"
Just by using Amazon, for example, you are not only telling them what books you are buying. They know what books you plan on buying, what books you have bought after an x% reduction in price or free shipping, what books might interest you, how best to 'offer' books to you. I wouldn't say you are offering all that information voluntarily. The real danger is that they think all this information is theirs.
I think you are underestimating the lengths that advertisers will go to reach you. Not only them, but also the networks that make money off of them. Consider the various legislation for HDTV and radio and the restrictions on recording. One such scheme for HD radio is that you can only record in 30 minute chunks. That means you get all the advertising goodies and will have to filter it yourself. How about PVRs? You see no more PVRs being made where you can autoskip commercials. You can avoid them like the plague, but once the plague has spread across the land, there is nowhere to hide. Once they have control of the market, you will buy what they are selling because there is nobody else to buy from. Just think AT&T. Your data, delivered.
"When the Web 2.0 bubble bursts - when the massive buyouts are done, the millionaires are made and the sites we love today are in the hands of big business - the innovation will grind to a halt, and what's left will be the endless grinding of the marketeering machine."
"Rule #2 is we moved your deadline, here is 5 more programmers that should make your project finished in 1/2 the time. Managers can not understand that more programmers does not equal faster work. Nor can they understand that adding a bunch of people more than 1/2 way through will only slow the project down further as you need to devote time getting them up to speed."
Re:more proof the RIAA/MPAA are insane
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Death By DMCA
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Because the Internet, the networks, associations, and other middlemen are going to find it increasingly harder to stay afloat with their old paradigms. Instead of cutting costs through Internet distribution and passing it off as lower prices to consumers, they are trying to charge higher prices and distort the law to feed their habits.
After all, we're all thieves and will rather *share* than pay a fair market price for their content. But what they don't realize is that even if what they are selling in the creators' names is meaningless to them, and all they want is to pollute our brains with garbage, there are people that will find it valuable. If I don't contribute even what little I can to opensource projects that I use, I realize that maybe tomorrow it won't be there since the creators have to make a living.
This is not new. Thomas Jefferson and the Founders knew this when they put the (now) dreaded "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" in the Constitution.
In my view, the "reversing protection" part of DMCA is unconstitutional just by looking at the "limited Times" part. There is nothing "limited" by CSS, AACS, HDMI, HDCP, and whatever contorted vision they have for controling the content. Just like Dubya's domestic spying may be technically legal, it is against the spirit of the law. And no matter how many ways they find to distort and convolute the constitution, it is still there.
Apu: I have come to make amends, sir. At first, I blamed you for squealing, but then I realized, it was I who wronged you. So I have come to work off my debt. I am at your service.
Homer: You're selling what, now?
Apu: I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
Homer: You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos.
Slashdot Mirror
They are leveraging their Adwords program with Checkout so they can stand to take a hit. Notice all the gimmicks with Adwords they offer.
So google is 0.05% more expensive but 10 cents cheaper per purchase. To be a nerd, Google will be more expensive when
Price * 0.0005 > $0.10 so Price > $200. But even then we are talking a difference of pennies.
So Google is about there or maybe even a little cheaper or expensive depending on purchase price.
Apu: I have come to make amends, sir. At first, I blamed you for squealing, but then I realized, it was _I_ who wronged _you_. So I have come to work off my debt. I am at your service.
Homer: You're...selling _what_, now?
Apu: I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
Homer: You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos. [slams the door]
Actually, one can argue that the only reason why DX is successful is because of its submissions, or should I say acquisitions. Microsoft joined OpenGL ARB and all they did was stall the OpenGL with threats of patent infringement. That's all that was needed for them to take the lead. Any graphics developer will tell you what a fine API DirectX is.
Vista will NOT kill OpenGL.
does it run HURD?
Where else would he get his ideas..?
;)
(Sorry I couldn't resist either
Lo and behold! You are now modded Insightful!
I didn't realize Gnome and KDE were Operating Systems. But then again, the difference between the GUI and the OS is a minor one, don't you think?
% Homer finds the CPU and chops of the cover, and starts removing cards.
... slime ... bucket.
-- Ultrahouse, "Treehouse of Horror XII"
Don't take out my British charm unit! Without that, I'm nothing but a boorish American clod! [the unit is removed] Ah, thanks a lot, asswipe! [losing power] I coulda kicked your butt from here to Albuquerque, you fat
HiFi is like soooo tape ages...HD is da snizzetty bizzle! Mah nizzle!
Your post has just been sucked into the vortex.
I would fall for that, but then again, I don't see any cameras following me around and sound amplifiers recording every word I say and then sending salesmen offering me shit. It would be interesting though: "You have just been dumped! Now you can buy this penis enlargement system for half off!"
Just by using Amazon, for example, you are not only telling them what books you are buying. They know what books you plan on buying, what books you have bought after an x% reduction in price or free shipping, what books might interest you, how best to 'offer' books to you. I wouldn't say you are offering all that information voluntarily. The real danger is that they think all this information is theirs.
Have him read Mythical Man-Month.
You obviously haven't seen this.
Because the Internet, the networks, associations, and other middlemen are going to find it increasingly harder to stay afloat with their old paradigms. Instead of cutting costs through Internet distribution and passing it off as lower prices to consumers, they are trying to charge higher prices and distort the law to feed their habits.
After all, we're all thieves and will rather *share* than pay a fair market price for their content. But what they don't realize is that even if what they are selling in the creators' names is meaningless to them, and all they want is to pollute our brains with garbage, there are people that will find it valuable. If I don't contribute even what little I can to opensource projects that I use, I realize that maybe tomorrow it won't be there since the creators have to make a living.
This is not new. Thomas Jefferson and the Founders knew this when they put the (now) dreaded "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries" in the Constitution.
In my view, the "reversing protection" part of DMCA is unconstitutional just by looking at the "limited Times" part. There is nothing "limited" by CSS, AACS, HDMI, HDCP, and whatever contorted vision they have for controling the content. Just like Dubya's domestic spying may be technically legal, it is against the spirit of the law. And no matter how many ways they find to distort and convolute the constitution, it is still there.
Apu: I have come to make amends, sir. At first, I blamed you for squealing, but then I realized, it was I who wronged you. So I have come to work off my debt. I am at your service. Homer: You're selling what, now?
Apu: I am selling only the concept of karmic realignment.
Homer: You can't sell that! Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos.